Military contractor Kellogg, Brown, and Root has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to throw out multiple lawsuits filed by veterans who say they were made sick by burn pits the company used for waste disposal on bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In a brief filed last week, officials for KBR and its former parent company Halliburton urged the court not to restore dozens of the lawsuits filed against the companies, who handled daily operations for many of the bases starting in 2001. They claim that the lawsuits were already dismissed properly because the courts have no jurisdiction over military strategy.
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/military-contractor-kbr-files-motion-with-supreme-court-in-attempt-to-nix-burn-pit-review
Whether it be Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome, or burn pit afflictions, the US government and its contractors routinely seek to dodge their responsibility for the morbidity and mortality caused by their actions and inaction.
The term "military strategy" does not include senseless and unnecessary harm caused to one's own troops. The terms "negligence" and "homicide" would be far more appropriate to these situations.
Make them pay. The entire "war on terror" has been a sham from start to finish, should it ever have an end. We should NOT be letting warmongers and profiteers drive our foreign policy and military strategy. Trump is right in trying to shut them down. It's one of the reasons he got elected in the first place:
https://news.antiwar.com/2018/12/21/elites-united-in-panic-over-syria-pullout-afghanistan-drawdown/
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