Haliburton exposes troops to contaminated water

[im10ashus]

By Larry Margasak
Associated Press
Monday, January 23, 2006; Page A02

Troops and civilians at a U.S. military base in Iraq were exposed to contaminated water last year, and employees for the responsible contractor, Halliburton Co., could not get their company to inform camp residents, according to interviews and internal company documents.

Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, disputes the allegations about water problems at Camp Junction City, in Ramadi, even though they were made by its own employees and documented in company e-mails.

"We exposed a base camp population (military and civilian) to a water source that was not treated," said a July 15, 2005, memo written by William Granger, the official for Halliburton's KBR subsidiary who was in charge of water quality in Iraq and Kuwait.

"The level of contamination was roughly 2x the normal contamination of untreated water from the Euphrates River," Granger wrote in one of several documents. The Associated Press obtained the documents from Senate Democrats who are holding a public inquiry into the allegations today.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/22/AR2006012200853.html

[Hubert Flottz]

1. That's how the GOP supports the troops.

I think the troops the GOP really support are the "terrorists"!

[im10ashus]

4. They don't care about the troops.

If they did, they wouldn't have lied to get us into Iraq in the first place.

[politicaholic]

2. There will be no conclusive inquiry...

as is the modus operandi of this administration and legislative body.

The troops are deserved of only emotional and magnetic-ribbon-on-SUV support. Any monetary and equipment support is held as "not supporting the troops" and thus is unpatriotic.

[Village Idiot]

3. Support the troops!