Iraq

AlterNet: The Biggest Iraq War Scandal That Nobody's Talking About - In a new book, a former U.S. Marine and Army sergeant reveals how a Dick Cheney-connected company got rich while U.S. soldiers got poisoned. By Liam O'Donoghue

In a nutshell, a healthy young man shipped off to Iraq, was stationed at a U.S. military base where he was exposed to a constant stream of toxic smoke, returned home with horrible respiratory problems, was denied care by the VA, developed brain cancer and died.

Thousands of soldiers have suffered similar fates since serving in the vicinity of the more than 250 military burn pits that operated at bases throughout Iraq and Afghanistan.

...the burn pits were operated by Kellogg, Brown, and Root (KBR), a former subsidiary of Halliburton, the company where Dick Cheney was CEO before ascending to the White House.