KBR, Halliburton sued for sickening U.S. troops

[ProSense]

KBR, Halliburton sued for sickening U.S. troops

by SusanG
Thu Dec 04, 2008 at 10:00:03 AM PST

KBR and Halliburton are the targets of a new class-action lawsuit alleging that U.S. troops have been sickened by water, food and fumes produced by the two massive private contractors, according to the Army Times:

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The details of the charges laid out in the lawsuit are macabre:

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."

The troops that the contractors so love to claim to support are not only being exposed to toxic fumes and scenes of wild dogs dragging off body parts. No, they're getting extra treats in their rotten food as well:

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In a separate incident reported by McClatchy, we learn that as bad as the military base-dwellers have it, workers "employed" by KBR sub-contractors are treated even worse:

BAGHDAD — About 1,000 Asian men who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to the U.S. military have been confined for as long as three months in windowless warehouses near the Baghdad airport without money or a place to work.

Najlaa International Catering Services, a subcontractor to KBR, an engineering, construction and services company, hired the men, who're from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. On Tuesday, they staged a march outside their compound to protest their living conditions.

And that's how we spread American values around the world during the Bush administration: poison our own to save a buck and virtually enslave the poor from other countries.

[KittyWampus]

1. OMG! wish I hadn't read that part about the dogs

[ProSense]

2. These contractors are despicable

f****

[firedupdem]

3. That entire Bush crew and all involved really need to rot in hell!

That is horrible! No respect for humans living or dead! It's all
about making a buck for them. They don't care at all. These
people need to be in jail.

[justabob]

4. unbelievably disgusting

I remember reading about this years ago now, I can't believe it has taken this long to get anywhere with it. Just reading about it is bad enough, I can't imagine living it. :puke:

[thoughtcrime1984]

5. This whole fucking war is about turning a quick buck.

Lives mean nothing to BushCo. Cheney's Halliburton is making tens of billions off this war, and that is all that matters, right????? We're just supposed to STFU and let these criminals do whatever the fuck they want to do.

[leftynyc]

6. Haul their asses in front of

Congress. Let them try and explain to the American people how "patriotic" they are. Then charge them with whatever law works and sue them into bankruptcy. Freaking animals.

[Veruca Salt]

7. WHAT THE FUCK!?!

Oh this makes me so fucking mad I have no words!! :mad:

[ProSense]

8. This is interesting.

US may use stiff drug law provision as indictments loom in Blackwater shootings

Drug law? These assholes should be charged with murder.