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IRAQI MILITARY CONTRACTOR IN HOT WATER AFTER DESTROYING RECYCLABLES
November 15 2009
Baghdad, Iraq – The face of war has never been a pretty one. Death and destruction, families destroyed, entire civilizations and races obliterated from the face of the planet are just some of the traumas that war creates. War can also be a builder
of civilizations, with those able to shine in the midst of that sorrow gaining huge advantages over the defeated. The United States is one of those countries, a nation whose entire history has been defined by war, but only rose to its current dominance after success in the Second World War.
Of course, not every war fought by the country has been as successful as that war. The conflict in Korea continues to blight the world almost sixty years after its conclusion. The war in Vietnam was an unmitigated disaster that helped to damage the unity of the country and cast a long shadow over every conflict since. In the modern day, two conflicts continue to define the United States, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, seven years into the battle in the latter country, new revelations have come to light as to the abuses occurring in her borders. Though the conflict has been plagued by the Abu
Gharib revelations and the deaths of hundreds of children, now U.S. military contractors have been accused of burning recyclables, adding yet another dark chapter to the conflict.
“I saw KBR contractors deliberately throwing recyclable material into garbage cans and 
then dumping them into dumpsters. I saw pits where a lot of this material was simply doused in gasoline and burned as though it was just regular trash. It was a really unsettling sight and I can tell you that what I saw wasn’t isolated,” said an eyewitness who preferred to remain anonymous. “In some cases they are mixing the recyclables and the regular trash after the fact. People are putting cans and cardboard into the appropriate bins and then workers are just throwing them all in together. It’s really a disgusting display and the people in charge are just turning their heads.”
Compostable material is also reportedly being mixed into regular trash, which is then frequently taken off site and burned in secret. Reportedly, such abuses are frequent across the country and not isolated to KBR, which was at one point a subsidiary of Halliburton.
“The fundamental problem is that the government has no capacity to do things itself. 
As a result, they're willing to overlook little things like recycling and even big things like fraud so long as their mission is met,” said Dawn Rothe, a criminology professor at Old Dominion University to the Christian Science Monitor. “All of these negative things that are happening are not seemingly making an impact at a significant level where policymakers are paying attention. Instead, it's quite the opposite; policymakers are still seeing them as cost-effective. Before the government reconsiders the use of its contractors there will have to be more revelations of some serious harm, legal discrepancies, and criminal behaviour.”
Under government rules, contractors are required to dispose of trash in an environmentally responsible way. Other private contractors in Iraq have fallen afoul of government rules during the Iraq conflict, most notable Blackwater which was charged with murder and throwing newsprint in with bleached white paper.
“The simple fact of the matter is these contractors have rules that they have to abide by if they want to retain government contracts. Abuses such as the murder of civilians, prisoner abuse, and mixing solid and liquid waste are things that the American people simply will not accept even in war time,” said Scrape TV International Conflict analyst Mario Martinez. “War is hell. Everyone knows that. That does not mean that the doors are wide open to all kinds of illicit behaviour and when such abuses occur they need to be punished. This recycling issue is likely only the tip of the iceberg and I imagine we will start to see even more revelations come to life in the not too distant future.”
Reportedly, Oliver Stone is in the early planning stages of a film on recycling abuses in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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