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KBR Gave Soldiers Contaminated Ice

For this they got a no-bid contract. I hope Dick Cheney’s happy. As for KBR, this article illustrates how they are the scum of the earth and don’t even care about the people they are there to help.  This story is from Thinkprogress.org.

KBR gave troops ice tainted with ‘traces of body fluids and putrefied remains.’

A former technician who worked for contracting company KBR in Iraq has filed a class-action lawsuit saying the company “exposed everyone at Joint Base Balad in Iraq to unsafe water, food and hazardous fumes from the burn pit there.” Joshua Eller’s suit includes particularly disturbing charges about KBR’s indifference to proper sanatization and the disposal of human remains.

The lawsuit also accuses KBR of shipping ice in mortuary trucks that “still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains in them when they were loaded with ice. This ice was served to U.S. forces.”

Eller also accuses KBR of failing to maintain a medical incinerator at Joint Base Balad, which has been confirmed by two surgeons in interviews with Military Times about the Balad burn pit. Instead, according to the lawsuit and the physicians, medical waste, such as needles, amputated body parts and bloody bandages were burned in the open-air pit.

Wild dogs in the area raided the burn pit and carried off human remains,” the lawsuit states. “The wild dogs could be seen roaming the base with body parts in their mouths, to the great distress of the U.S. forces.”

Just yesterday, 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers sued the scandal-ridden company for knowingly allowing them to be exposed to a toxic chemical while serving in Iraq.

I’d like to hear Bush squirm out of this one.

Come on mainstream media, do your job for once. Expose this disgusting war profiteering and the fact that President Bush is a war criminal. I’ve already had enough of the soft “exit interviews”. I want him to answer for this.

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