Is this another example of why contracting out our military is a bad idea?
Question by prekinpdx: Is this another example of why contracting out our military is a bad idea?
Military contractor KBR has racked up a record of endangering the lives of U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq. Over the years, the former Halliburton subsidiary has been accused of things from giving troops ice tainted with “traces of body fluids and putrefied remains” to ignoring warnings of unsafe wiring that led to troop deaths.
Earlier this month, attorneys for 16 members of the Indiana National Guard filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that they “knowingly exposed the soldiers to a cancer-causing toxic chemical.”
Depositions from KBR employees detailed concerns about the toxin in one part of the plant as early as May of 2003. And KBR minutes, from a later meeting state “that 60 percent of the people … exhibit symptoms of exposure,” including bloody noses and rashes.
Did KBR knowingly put our troops in harms way? Should the US stop contracting out our military in order to keep our troops safer?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/22/cbsnews_investigates/main4683471.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4683471
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/12/military_kbr_lawsuit_121508w/
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/03/military_iraq_electrocutions_031908w/
Best answer:
Answer by Dr. Independent
Why don’t we just leave that country and leave it there forever. If it dies it dies…The country is like Montana, nobody needs them.
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