January 13, 2009 at 5:00 am by Luanne Bradley
Cancer: the Price of Peace?
Once home, many of our soldiers who served in Iraq have to battle chronic rashes, tumors and even cancer.
The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) is demanding to know why. Why did the giant contractor KBR knowingly expose our forces to carcinogenic toxins at its power plants in Iraq?
KBR, the largest non-union construction company in the United States, has struck gold in its massive contracts with the U.S. government, raking in $17 billion in Iraq-related work since 2003.
The former Halliburton subsidiary …
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