just so we know iraq still exists

and what we did not only to the iraqis but our OWN MEN AND WOMEN, i wanted to post this. remember too, their health care down the road is the responsibility of all of us as well (and no, i'm not complaining about that part. we OWE these heroes. but we also owe them not to knowingly put them in cancer causing conditions)

Pentagon knowingly exposed troops to cancer-causing chemicals, document shows
John Byrne

A newly leaked military document appears to show the Pentagon knowingly exposed US troops to toxic chemicals that cause cancer, while publicly downplaying the risks exposure might cause.

The document, written by an environmental engineering flight commander in December of 2006 and posted on Wikileaks (PDF) on Tuesday, details the risks posed to US troops in Iraq by burning garbage at a US airbase. It enumerates myriad risks posed by the practice and identifies various carcinogens released by incinerating waste in open-air pits.

Because of the difficulties in testing samples, investigators could not prove that chemicals exceeded military exposure guidelines. But a military document released last December found that chemicals routinely exceeded safe levels by twice to six times...........