Holding KBR accountable

[LOsborne]

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2009/aug/03/toxic-chemical-opened-another-front-for-iraq/

the strange substance... was hexavalent chromium

If you don't recognize the substance, maybe you remember Erin Brockovich and Hinkley, CA. Ya see, everybody knew the stuff was deadly back in the 90's. They made a movie about it for the luvagod!

But so far, KBR has suffered no consequences for dumping it all over the ground around our soldiers.

Doesn't anybody else find this outrageous?

[Henry Hawk]

Nothing seems to rile up the Average American anymore when it comes to our soldiers......Michael Jackson dies and the country comes to a stop.........a soldier gets killed and it makes third page news.
The military should be able to sue the piss out of KBR....and THAT money should go to strictly helping any soldier that has ANY complications from that dust.....our soldiers should have the SAME insurance that our congress has.

[followsthewolf]

About as upset as the average 'murikin patriot got about Agent Orange -- back in the day.

It is still killing American soldiers, and no one gives a rat's ass.

[Santiago]

No doubt many are outraged about this autrocious and repeated misuse of toxic materials, but they are puzzled as to what one individual can do about it except what we are doing.  Bitch and complain!  There is plenty of that, but the powers that be aren't listening.  The way to get their attention is to vote them out of office, but that didn't happen last November.

[LOsborne]

  The way to get their attention is to vote them out of office, but that didn't happen last November.

Actually it did, since KBR is a subsidiary of Halliburton -- and we all know who is the most well-known shareholder of that corporation.

[Santiago]

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=196
Bush is gone, but Halliburton keeps cashing checks
by Pratap Chatterjee, Salon.com
June 3rd, 2009

All was remarkably staid as shareholders celebrated Halliburton's $4 billion in operating profits in 2008 at the company's recent AGM in Houston, a striking 22 percent return at a time when many companies are announcing record losses. At the same time, Sen. Byron Dorgan's Senate Democratic Policy Committee was holding a hearing on Capitol Hill focused on abuses by former subsidiary KBR.

Did the SDPC make any decision on these abuses before their 6 week vacation?

[Sandy Eggo]

This is sickening. KBR and the military should be held accountable. In all, 18 people have been electrocuted in Iraq.

There will be no criminal charges filed in the death of a Green Beret who was electrocuted in his quarters in Iraq last year, the Department of Defense said Friday.
Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, a 24-year-old Green Beret, died in a shower at his base in Iraq in January 2008.

Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, a 24-year-old Green Beret, died in a shower at his base in Iraq in January 2008.

The Army's 11-month investigation "concluded that there is insufficient evidence to prove or disprove that any one person, persons or entity was criminally culpable" in the death of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, the Department of Defense said in a written statement.

Maseth, a 24-year-old decorated Green Beret from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was electrocuted in a shower in his Baghdad quarters -- a former palace of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein -- in January 2008.

"The investigation revealed that there were numerous entities, individuals, both contractors and government employees, who breached their respective duties of care; however, none of those breaches, in and of themselves, were the proximate cause of his death," the Army said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/07/US.military.electrocutions/index.html