american bases: biggest polluters.

[faye]

The U.S. Military's War on the Earth | Alternet

[faye]

how many american bases in afghanistan?
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Pentagon's Bases of Confusion | TomDispatch

[Joey_Gladstonezai]

Your topics are always useful, faye. Keep them coming. I thought I could never forgive you in my heart after you called me Joey Baloney, but now I appreciate and respect you.

[faye]

from an article about 'burn pits' polluting u.s. military, in iraq and afghanistan.

[QUOTE] But Billy had been exposed to something much more harmful than cigarettes. Since 2003, defense contractors have used burn pits at a majority of U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan as a method of destroying military waste. The pits incinerate discarded human body parts, plastics, hazardous medical material, lithium batteries, tires, hydraulic fluids, and vehicles. Jet fuel keeps pits burning twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

The U.S. government, however, has only recently acknowledged the harmful effects of burn pits. According to a report released last year by the United States Government Accountability Office, “burn pits help base commanders manage waste, but also produce smoke and harmful emissions that military and other health professionals believe may result in acute and chronic health effects to those exposed.”

When asked recently about the number of veterans suffering from respiratory illnesses, a military spokesman, Major T.G. Taylor, responded only by citing a contrary May 2010 Department of Defense study, which he says found that illnesses due to smoke exposure in war zones were no more common among soldiers exposed to burn pits than those who were not exposed.

The VA states on its own webpage that chemicals, paint, medical and human waste, metals, aluminum, unexploded ordnance, munitions, and petroleum products among other toxic waste are destroyed in burn pits. Possible side effects, the department notes, “may affect the skin, eyes, respiration, kidneys, liver, nervous system, cardiovascular system, reproductive system, peripheral nervous system, and gastrointestinal tract.”

The burn pit at Balad consumed about 250 tons of waste a day, exposing 25,000 U.S. military personnel and thousands of contractors to toxic fumes.[QUOTE]

[faye]

Your topics are always useful, faye. Keep them coming. I thought I could never forgive you in my heart after you called me Joey Baloney, but now I appreciate and respect you.

joey, i realise how big hearted you americans are and how you have compassion for all the peoples of the world.
yo'all believe in equality, therefore not only poisoning the brown peoples and their countries, yo'all, also kill off your own soldiers and pollute america.
that is fairness, american style.

with 'god on your side', you will pollute the moon...soon.

amazing what an 'advanced civilization', best universities in the world, science, heartlessness and megalomania, can accomplish, don't you think?

[faye]

lawyers defending american military 'burn pit' victims.
Burn Pits - Military Burn Pits, Open Pit Burning, Burn Pit Lawsuit

[faye]

polluting the world.. american bases and military.
Military Pollution: The Quintessential Universal Soldier

[Joey_Gladstonezai]

joey, i realise how big hearted you americans are and how you have compassion for all the peoples of the world.
yo'all believe in equality, therefore not only poisoning the brown peoples and their countries, yo'all, also kill off your own soldiers and pollute america.
that is fairness, american style.

with 'god on your side', you will pollute the moon...soon.

amazing what an 'advanced civilization', best universities in the world, science, heartlessness and megalomania, can accomplish, don't you think?

I am starting to be ashamed of my country. I was not aware of such things-- I thought our men and women in uniform were heroes doing a service to humanity but now I am seriously rethinking that notion.