Any time any tells you how good the soldiers in Iraq have it, how much the government is talking care of folks like me, well, keep this in mind:
Notice, these burn pits are still in regular use. They're burning medical waste, plastics, feces, everything. It's right by the base, everyone breaths it. It is massively unhealthy. Long term, people die of lung cancer because of this mess.
And we're still using the burn pits over in jolly ol' Iraq. So just remember, no matter how many fucking yellow ribbon magnets you have on your car, "The Troops" are breathing shit in everyday that's killing them while you sit around back home and bitch and moan about how hard life is since you took out that third mortgage.
But don't worry folks, don't worry, the government promises, for realssss, that there's probably very little chance that burning plastic and medical waste is producing dangerous fumes. Shit, that probably why Bush has started recommending that needy families burn plastics and medical waste in their home to stay warm this winter!
This disgusts me. How do we repay the young women and men who actually step up and enlist? How do we repay the soldiers who suffer to protect the spoiled, piggish civilians of this nation? We burn plastics and medical waste where they live, to ensure that even if they escape the theater of combat reasonably unharmed, they still get to die for this country.
I just, well, I fail to understand it. If a burn pit is safe enough for my friends at Balad, then it should be safe enough for them to pump air for the base, with an average percentage of emissions from the burn pit, onto the senate floor. If it's safe for the women and men at Balad to breath, then it's safe for the fine old folks of the senate to breath.
If we're not all in this together, I got a problem.
Geez, what happened to the basic infrastructure of that country? Oh. Wait.
Posted by: Thene | December 16, 2008 at 06:31 PM