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"There's a whole chapter on my son Beau... He was co-located [twice] near these burn pits."-Joe Biden, former Vice President of the United States of AmericaThe Agent Orange of the 21st Century... Thousands of American soldiers are returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan with severe wounds from chemical war. They are not the victims of ruthless enemy warfare, but of their own military commanders. These soldiers, afflicted with rare cancers and respiratory diseases, were sickened from the smoke and ash swirling out of the "burn pits" where military contractors incinerated mountains of trash, including old stockpiles of mustard and sarin gas, medical waste, and other toxic material.This shocking work includes:Illustration of the devastation in one soldier's intimate storyA plea for helpConnection between the burn pits and Major Biden's unfortunate suffering and deathThe burn pits' effects on native citizens of Iraq: mothers, fathers, and childrenDenial from the Department of Defense and othersWarning signs that were ignoredand much moreBased on thousands of government documents, over five hundred in-depth medical case studies, and interviews with more than one thousand veterans and active-duty GIs, The Burn Pits will shock the nation. The book is more than an explosive work of investigative journalism-it is the deeply moving chronicle of the many young men and women who signed up to serve their country in the wake of 9/11, only to return home permanently damaged, the victims of their own armed forces' criminal negligence.
Contents
Contents Foreword ix Author's Note xi Chapter 1Chapter 2: A Call for Help 11 Chapter 3: A Disastrous Record 21 Chapter 4: Major Biden 27 Chapter 5: "Iraq Is Poisoned" 35 Chapter 6: U.S. Army Inc. 41 Chapter 7: Warning Signs 53 Chapter 8: Covering All Angles 61 Chapter 9: Project 922 67 Chapter 10: No WMDs in Iraq? 75 Chapter 11: "We Knew the Ground Was Hot" 87 Chapter 12: Signs and Symptoms 95 Chapter 13: Delayed Casualties 101 Chapter 14: The Wheels of Government 111 Chapter 15: Report to the Senate 117 Chapter 16: "Embrace the Suck" 123 Symptoms and diseases 129 FOR MORE INFORMATION 133 Acknowledgments 137
