Military officials insist there's no problem. But veterans' advocates are calling for full transparency about the health risks faced by service members who have been stationed at the largest U.S. air base in Iraq, where one inspector called an open-air burn pit "the worst environmental site I have ever personally visited." But for the moment, that quote -- found in a memo from a military environmental engineer from Utah -- is all that is publicly known from a 2006 Environmental Health Site Assessment on the situation at Balad Air Base. That's because the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventative Medicine is refusing to make the document public, saying that the information it contains "would damage our national security."
Please, mister "Sensitive Material Stamper Man", for the sake of our national security, do NOT open the records about the Balad Air Base garbage dump in Iraq. If the Al Quaeda learn how we bury our waste, they will start to bury their waste in similar fashion. Hence, not as many Al Quaeda children will die.
Reminds me of one of the funniest lines ever in a movie, from Dr. Strangelove... "Mr President, we cannot allow a mine shaft gap"!
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