The burn pits : the poisoning of America's soldiers / Joseph Hickman ; foreword by Jesse Ventura ; introduction by David Talbot
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Hot Books, [2020]Edition: First paperback editionDescription: xix, 140 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1510743138
- 9781510743137
- Refuse and refuse disposal -- Health aspects -- Iraq
- Refuse and refuse disposal -- Health aspects -- Afghanistan
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Health aspects
- Afghan War, 2001- -- Health aspects
- Incineration -- Health aspects -- Afghanistan
- Incineration -- Health aspects -- Iraq
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Medical care
- Veterans -- Medical care
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"There's a whole chapter on my son Beau... He was co-located [twice] near these burn pits."
-Joe Biden, former Vice President of the United States of America
The Agent Orange of the 21st Century ... Thousands of American soldiers are returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan with severe wounds from chemical war. They are not the victims of ruthless enemy warfare, but of their own military commanders. These soldiers, afflicted with rare cancers and respiratory diseases, were sickened from the smoke and ash swirling out of the "burn pits" where military contractors incinerated mountains of trash, including old stockpiles of mustard and sarin gas, medical waste, and other toxic material.
This shocking work, now for the first time in paperback, includes:
Illustration of the devastation in one soldier's intimate story
A plea for help
Connection between the burn pits and Major Biden's unfortunate suffering and death
The burn pits' effects on native citizens of Iraq: mothers, fathers, and children
Denial from the Department of Defense and others
Warning signs that were ignored
and much more
Based on thousands of government documents, over five hundred in-depth medical case studies, and interviews with more than one thousand veterans and active-duty GIs, The Burn Pits will shock the nation. The book is more than an explosive work of investigative journalism--it is the deeply moving chronicle of the many young men and women who signed up to serve their country in the wake of 9/11, only to return home permanently damaged, the victims of their own armed forces' criminal negligence.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135).
Draws on government documents and hundreds of case studies to reveal the devastating impact of the use of burning pits in Afghanistan and Iraq has on the armed forces serving there.
Forward / Jesse Ventura -- Author's note -- Introduction -- A soldier's story -- A call for help -- A disastrous record -- Major Biden -- "Iraq is poisoned" -- U.S. Army Inc. -- Warning signs -- Covering all angles -- Project 922 -- No WMDs in Iraq? -- "We knew the ground was hot" -- Signs and symptoms -- Delayed casualties -- The wheels of government -- Report to the Senate -- "Embrace the suck" -- Symptoms and diseases of case study subjects.