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In Iraq and Afghanistan Burn Pit infernos cause illness and death
More than 230 U.S. burn pits, as large as 10 acres, across Iraq and Afghanistan; ignited with jet fuel, burning human body parts, plastics, metal, Styrofoam, electrical equipment and other waste, burned 100 to 200 tons of waste per day at all hours often near U.S. military encampments impregnating thousands of local residents and foreign military personnel with toxic fumes leading to major illnesses and eventually death. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is a co-author of Helping Veterans Exposed to Burn Pits Act legislation pending in Congress. Thousands have already been infected and some have died including Minnesota National Guard veteran Amie Muller, 36, in February, nine months after diagnosis of Stage III pancreatic cancer most likely caused by burn pit toxins during her 2005 and 2007 deployment at Balad, Iraq.
Frank Reflections
BY FRANK ERICKSON Condoning a “travel ban” on unarmed Iraqis coming to America? How can anyone agree with such a “travel ban” after the U.S. sent thousands of armed Americans across Iraqi borders killing thousands of people and destroying entire cities like Fallujah? Why couldn”'t the Iraqi government have put a travel ban on Americans entering their country in 2003? It is obvious the only thing that validates a “travel ban” is the power to do it? We are violent, nutty people in America. We destroy Iraq, turn it into a hellhole, and then we won”'t let Iraqis come to the U.S. because we see them as a danger even though we destroyed Iraq. It is just nuts!
