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Witnesses link chemical to ill US soldiers
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Farah Stockman / Boston Globe | June 23, 2008
US soldiers assigned to guard a crucial part of Iraq’s oil infrastructure became ill after exposure to a highly toxic chemical at the plant, witnesses testified at a Democratic Policy Committee hearing yesterday on Capitol Hill.
"These soldiers were bleeding from the nose, spitting blood," said Danny Langford, an equipment technician from Texas brought to work at the Qarmat Ali Water treatment plant in 2003. "They were sick."
"Hundreds of American soldiers at this site were contaminated" while guarding the plant, Langford said, including members of the Indiana National Guard.
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Langford is one of nine Americans who accuse KBR, the lead contractor on the Qarmat Ali project and one of the largest defense contractors in Iraq, of knowingly exposing them to sodium dichromate, an orange, sandlike chemical that is a potentially lethal carcinogen. Specialists say even short-term exposure to the chemical can cause cancer, depress an individual’s immune system, attack the liver, and cause other ailments.
Yesterday’s hearing – one among several organized to hold contractors accountable for alleged malfeasance in Iraq – was chaired by Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat. "Hundreds of US troops, who may not even know of their exposure to sodium dichromate that could one day result in a horrible disease, cancers, and death," he said.
Roughly 250 American soldiers were believed to have come in contact with the chemical, according to Defense Department documents. Sodium dichromate is the same substance that poisoned residents in Hinkley, Calif., an incident made famous by the movie "Erin Brockovich" in 2000.
In Iraq, the chemical was used as an antirust coating for pipes that supply water to the oil fields. After the 2003 US-led invasion, looters raided the Qarmat Ali facility; afterward, the chemical was found strewn around the facility and its grounds.
Langford and his former colleagues have said KBR supervisors initially told them the chemical was a "mild irritant." The company, however, eventually acknowledged that sodium dichromate was a potentially deadly substance and moved to clean up the site.
KBR has denied any wrongdoing in the matter. The company has insisted the safety of its workers and the troops they work with are its "highest priority."
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June 23rd, 2008 at 8:31 pm
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June 24th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Please watch the DVD documentaries “Iraq For Sale” and ” Beyond Betrayal”. This story is proof that our soldiers are in Iraq for the oil and that they are paying a steep price for it. KBR is making a killing in both profits and in lives (it’s employees and the troops).
June 24th, 2008 at 9:46 am
you think this is sick ever see any of the depleted uranium case’s , they come home and give it to there kid’s unknowningly.
These greed monger’s in washington are pathetic.
selfish bastards is all they are .
June 24th, 2008 at 10:47 am
not surprising at all, the iraqis are getting it much worse though..
everybody check out my website.
http://www.the-new-world-order.....dcast.com/
June 24th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
There were over 7000 vets who died after they returned back from Iraq in 91, that number represents what I found 4 years ago. I am sure it is much higher now.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
remember agent orange..im an indirect victim..thanks protectorates of the state for your perversion of nature for your selfish wars.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
remember agent orange..im an indirect victim..thanks protectorates of the state for your perversion of nature for your selfish wars.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Off the record, the US government considers all soldiers, past and present to be totally expendable. Furthermore, if they do become ill years later from a toxic exposure of any kind, our government denies it and expects them to be good dying prisoners of war, prisoners that die in silence as if tormented until the bitter end by the enemy.
Of course they will never admit this and will tell us all kinds of stories about how much they care, but, when it all comes down, no one really gives a damn, our vets die and their death is the solution for which the Fed already knows there is no solution to victims of war. The only solution is when they are gone and no longer have to hear it. It gets even better when the civilian population forgets alltogether, as in “problem solved.” It’s really no different when the medical establishment makes a blunder like we saw with Vioxx.
Alls you can really do is protect yourself and everyone please remember how they have treated first responders to 9/11 and how the EPA misled everyone, telling them the air was safe when they knew it was in fact deadly. And everyone knows how this goes, as a necessity to get Wall street up running as soon as possible and so an immediate clean up was needed, no matter how many will die from exposure.
And don’t anyone think it’s any different with vaccines that have harmed so many individuals. Thes kind of projects and plans are as big as God himself and the little people that might be harmed are of no consequence and are merely put on the growing list of dissident and undesirable people
Unfortunately, we can all learn from the truth, but only if we wish to see it and protect ourselves.
My advice to anyone is to question government on everything, from small to large and avoid ANY & ALL AGENDA advisories and announcements like the plague. That is, if they tell you it’s
“perfectly safe,” pack you bags and get the hell out ASAP. You’ll have plenty of time after, to read about all the lies years later when the truth leaks out and this is more true than anything you’ll ever hear from them.
If you are not real sure about this, just take a look at the value of our dollar. Look at all your hard earned money that you saved for retirement and realize when a buck was a buck, it bought 4 gallons of gas and today it only buys 1 quart, soon to be only a pint. This obviously means that when they say “In God We Trust” or honest to God, it’s an all out lie from the get go. And someone please tell me exactly what the dictionary definition of “shall not be infringed” actually means?
The truth is, our government has become a grand whore house with 3rd world values, where the whores do not have STD’s until you gave it to them and all of them are virgins. That is, you don’t need to understand anything technical like retroactive immunity, retroactive taxation and do not need to be at all concerned with life and death outcomes involving you health, until such time as you have to deal with it when the sores break open and ooze.
All of the new legislation and agenda politics we are being sold today, are telling of this on a grand scale. So trust the Fed about as much as you would trust a 3rd world hooker with lip sores, whose brother tells you she is a virgin living with her Mom whose name is Mary, in a piss poor oil boom town that’s being robbed blind.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Hi everyone, it’s me again.
I actually remember when Navy inspectors collected air samples out doors in the fresh air and then labeled them as samples “collected from a controlled area.”
The controlled area was a boiler room undergoing major asbestose removals and the dust was going everywhere, including through a blower intake into an adjoining building occupied by many military and civilian employees. Because people began to complain, they collected bogus samples to generate a record that the air was perfectly safe, for the record. And of course the test results came back “asbestose free” with only a few paint chip particles in the sample to make it look legitimate.
This is how it’s done folks, and during their inhouse safety training sessions, everyone laughs about the need to generate a clean record, for the record, so everyone that wants to keep thier job, “pick a good day to collect this samples, off the record.
Their abatement projects have a perfect record with perfectly clean test samples if they like the contractor. If on the otherhand they don’t like the contractor for some undisclosed reason, the test samples come back as contaminated.
I am not lying to anyone about this and this is how it was done 25 years ago, just for the record. I can’t imagaine the politics behind this kind of thing has changed since then, in fact, I am sure the game has merely been perfected.
June 24th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Testing, one, two, three.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
http://www.thereignofchrist.org
Today, the United Nations with it’s sinister ‘declarations’
is the antichrist. The UN outwardly seems to be a good
‘peace keeping’ force, but many of it’s declarations are
subtle and evil, lying couched like a leopard, as it ushers in
The Battle in the heavens and on earth
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the New World Order. This organization will be replaced
by a man, the antichrist himself, who will do the bidding
of the Dragon. This man opposes directly God the Son.
“And the beast which I saw was like to a leopard, and his
feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth
of a lion. And the Dragon gave him his own strength and
great power. And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to
death, and his death’s wound was healed. And all the earth
was in admiration after the beast. And they adored the
dragon which gave power to the beast. And they adored the
beast, saying: ‘Who is like to the beast? And who shall be
able to fight with him?’”31
The people of the world are in admiration of the superior
weapons technology which the mega-powers use in their
ever expanding global battle-field. The Prophet Daniel
foretold: “And the king shall do according to his will, and
he shall be lifted up, and shall magnify himself against
every god, and he shall speak great things against the God
of gods, and shall prosper, till the wrath be accomplished,
for the determination is made. And he shall make no
account of the God of his fathers, and he shall follow the
lust of women, and he shall not regard any gods, for he
shall rise up against all things. But he shall worship the
god Maozim in his place, and a god whom his fathers
knew not. He shall worship with gold, and silver, and
precious stones, and things of great price. And he shall do
this to fortify Maozim with a strange god, whom he has
acknowledged, and he shall increase glory, and shall give
them power over many, and shall divide the land gratis.”32
Maozim is the god of military forces, star wars, and strong
holds. If you do not think that this god of war is not
idolized, just look at the entertainment areas in public
transportation places, as well as in the sports arcades in the
cities, and the ‘games’ advertised in the music stores – you
will see – you do know.
June 25th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Hey guys, don’t dispair, I’ve been in the military for over 7 years, been to the Persian Gulf and all over the world. I’m very aware of everything that is occurring and I hate it. Also, I’ve seen some other soldiurs posting occasionally, so at least it’s not 100% ignorance, maybe only like, 99% ignorance. I’m just posting because I’m listening to Alex rant about sick military who basically love evil and death, which is true, some of the privates I’ve met are like ‘America -fuck yeah!’ and don’t realize the way they are being used by the system. There are some scary people in the system that suffer from TB, that is True Believer syndrome. Real coolaid drinkers.