[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, GLOBAL: Iraq burn pits

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vets: Burn pits are killing us
But sickened warriors searching for help will have to wait for science 
and government bureaucracy to link their conditions to their service.

By Matthew D. LaPlante
Salt Lake Tribune (UT)
January 15, 2010


Combat had changed him.

Yet Andrew Rounds was still the adoring son his mother had sent off to war.

...

For years flames lapped at the sky, sending thick black plumes of smoke 
into the air across Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet even as the military's own 
environmental health experts quietly warned that the toxic fumes from 
open-air burn pits, located at every major U.S. base across the war 
zones, might sicken troops, military health officials stood their 
ground. The pits, they said, were not a danger.

But veterans groups, families and members of Congress pressed for a more 
thorough investigation as thousands of warfighters returned suffering 
from respiratory illnesses, skin diseases, cancers and blood diseases.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_14182242

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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