US troops exposed to contaminated water in Iraq Halliburton documents say

[imported_Condor]

Originally posted by: BBond

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: Condor
The worst water I have ever consumed was in NYC, Chicago, DC, SF and LA. Why do you think libs drink only bottled water? Dims gonna investigate those too?

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Nice way to support our troops. While HELLiburton is making record profits off of their former CEO's war, our troops are drinking contaminated water RAW FROM THE EUPHRATES RIVER -- and you two are cracking jokes about it.

You people really have no shame. None whatsoever.

Despicable. Just simply despicable.

Haven't spent any time in the military have you? You have no experience. My comments about big city water was no joke. After years of travel, the taste of municiple water is disgusting so we purify our own water in the house. We do not consume city water. That is from being in the military and governmant service. Most of our troops are fitted for combat situations, not lace cuff tea parties. They carry iodine tablets or filtration devices in thier packs so that they can purify the water they drink. In Iraq, unless they are in the field, they mostly drink bottled water. Water contamination occurs in every city in the world. When the plumber works on the pipes in your house, you suffer contamination. If you are smart, you let the water run until it clears and are careful before consuming it. You think our troops are going to blindly drink the water? Chit happens and combat soldiers are prepared for that.

 

[Train]

Hate to break it to you guys, but I honestly don't know of a single soldier/sailor/marine/airman who drank anything BUT bottled water in the middle east.

Nobody touches the rivers, most guys wouldn't even wash thier clothes in them.

Another non-issue for the keyboard commandos to get thier panties in a bunch over.

 

[M00T]

I drank "purified" water over there. I threw up for 24 hours. Severe dehydration came afterwards. The rest of the camp got the hershey squirts. A few others had my symptoms, but the docs covered it up and said "poor hygiene" on our parts.

 

[Bowfinger]

Originally posted by: Train
Hate to break it to you guys, but I honestly don't know of a single soldier/sailor/marine/airman who drank anything BUT bottled water in the middle east.

Nobody touches the rivers, most guys wouldn't even wash thier clothes in them.

Another non-issue for the keyboard commandos to get thier panties in a bunch over.

You won't look so foolish next time if you read the article before you jump to attack:

• While bottled water was available for drinking, the contaminated water was used for virtually everything else, including handwashing, laundry, bathing and making coffee, said water expert Ben Carter of Cedar City, Utah.

You're welcome.

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: Bowfinger

Originally posted by: Train
Hate to break it to you guys, but I honestly don't know of a single soldier/sailor/marine/airman who drank anything BUT bottled water in the middle east.

Nobody touches the rivers, most guys wouldn't even wash thier clothes in them.

Another non-issue for the keyboard commandos to get thier panties in a bunch over.

You won't look so foolish next time if you read the article before you jump to attack:

• While bottled water was available for drinking, the contaminated water was used for virtually everything else, including handwashing, laundry, bathing and making coffee, said water expert Ben Carter of Cedar City, Utah.

You're welcome.

Only we keyboard commandos bother to read the articles before commenting on them -- or making excuses for the inexcusable.

 

[BarneyFife]

I don't get it. They want to be in Iraq. They love Halliburton. They don't care if they drink contaminated water. They support Bush. Since they aren't the brightest the bunch (the troops), let them suffer.

 

[Wheezer]

Originally posted by: BarneyFife
I don't get it. They want to be in Iraq. They love Halliburton. They don't care if they drink contaminated water. They support Bush. Since they aren't the brightest the bunch (the troops), let them suffer.

Well see the problem with the likes of you is that you constantly want to "show the way" to the disenfranchised...much like religious zelots who are constanly trying to show others how good thier lives would be if they just accepted Christ into thier hearts.

You are trying to force feed them that they, thier ideals, and what their beliefs are is wrong and that they are there for a lost cause sent by a group who doest not appreciate them...gee, can't figure out why they choose to ignore your constant insults.....:disgust:

Instead of trying to save them from themselves or this "ruthless & corrupt administration" why don't you put your time to more productive use and go deliver meals on wheels or something....oops I forgot thats not the in thing to do.

Don't get me wrong you are entitled to your opinion...much the same as they are.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: BBond
Only we keyboard commandos bother to read the articles before commenting on them -- or making excuses for the inexcusable.

At least you finally admit to your title :laugh:

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: BBond
Only we keyboard commandos bother to read the articles before commenting on them -- or making excuses for the inexcusable.

At least you finally admit to your title :laugh:

Just as you've admitted yours. 😉

Only mine is all volunteer. Not paid like yours.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Bowfinger

Originally posted by: Train
Hate to break it to you guys, but I honestly don't know of a single soldier/sailor/marine/airman who drank anything BUT bottled water in the middle east.

Nobody touches the rivers, most guys wouldn't even wash thier clothes in them.

Another non-issue for the keyboard commandos to get thier panties in a bunch over.

You won't look so foolish next time if you read the article before you jump to attack:

• While bottled water was available for drinking, the contaminated water was used for virtually everything else, including handwashing, laundry, bathing and making coffee, said water expert Ben Carter of Cedar City, Utah.

You're welcome.

Oh, he'll still look foolish. Thinking and reading aren't their strong suits.

 

[imported_Condor]

Originally posted by: M00T
I drank "purified" water over there. I threw up for 24 hours. Severe dehydration came afterwards. The rest of the camp got the hershey squirts. A few others had my symptoms, but the docs covered it up and said "poor hygiene" on our parts.

You didn't use your purification tabs? Your filtration unit? Your head?

Vietnam followed by twenty years of traveling and living abroad and I only had the bug twice. Once was from a hamburger at a McDonalds in Nassau and the other time was from oysters diablo at a Sanborns in the neighborhood in Mexico City. I always carried Lomitil, Vibramiacin, and Tylenol. One of the three of them was bound to get me to the airport in time for my departure flight. Never, ever, trust the water unless it is boiled or purified by filtration or chemical means. I would guess that you know that by now.

 

[imported_Condor]

Originally posted by: Bowfinger

Originally posted by: Train
Hate to break it to you guys, but I honestly don't know of a single soldier/sailor/marine/airman who drank anything BUT bottled water in the middle east.

Nobody touches the rivers, most guys wouldn't even wash thier clothes in them.

Another non-issue for the keyboard commandos to get thier panties in a bunch over.

You won't look so foolish next time if you read the article before you jump to attack:

• While bottled water was available for drinking, the contaminated water was used for virtually everything else, including handwashing, laundry, bathing and making coffee, said water expert Ben Carter of Cedar City, Utah.

You're welcome.

Thanks so very much! I think you boil water to make coffee and not so many troops drink from the bath water these days. If they got sick from the water, it was in the form of ice cubes in drinks. They are taught not to accept drinks with ice in them. Most learn very quickly. That is why they vote Republican!

 

[Bowfinger]

Originally posted by: Condor

Originally posted by: Bowfinger

Originally posted by: Train
Hate to break it to you guys, but I honestly don't know of a single soldier/sailor/marine/airman who drank anything BUT bottled water in the middle east.

Nobody touches the rivers, most guys wouldn't even wash thier clothes in them.

Another non-issue for the keyboard commandos to get thier panties in a bunch over.

You won't look so foolish next time if you read the article before you jump to attack:

• While bottled water was available for drinking, the contaminated water was used for virtually everything else, including handwashing, laundry, bathing and making coffee, said water expert Ben Carter of Cedar City, Utah.

You're welcome.

Thanks so very much! I think you boil water to make coffee and not so many troops drink from the bath water these days. If they got sick from the water, it was in the form of ice cubes in drinks. They are taught not to accept drinks with ice in them. Most learn very quickly. That is why they vote Republican!

That's nice. Irrelevant -- and lame -- but nice. Any chance you might want to address the point of the OP, that Halliburton didn't provide the clean water it was paid to provide and refused to notify the base of the contamination? Never mind, it's a rhetorical question. Your record of duhversion and denial speaks for itself.

There are 50 states, you know.

 

[outriding]

Originally posted by: Condor

Originally posted by: Bowfinger

Originally posted by: Train
Hate to break it to you guys, but I honestly don't know of a single soldier/sailor/marine/airman who drank anything BUT bottled water in the middle east.

Nobody touches the rivers, most guys wouldn't even wash thier clothes in them.

Another non-issue for the keyboard commandos to get thier panties in a bunch over.

You won't look so foolish next time if you read the article before you jump to attack:

• While bottled water was available for drinking, the contaminated water was used for virtually everything else, including handwashing, laundry, bathing and making coffee, said water expert Ben Carter of Cedar City, Utah.

You're welcome.

Thanks so very much! I think you boil water to make coffee and not so many troops drink from the bath water these days. If they got sick from the water, it was in the form of ice cubes in drinks. They are taught not to accept drinks with ice in them. Most learn very quickly. That is why they vote Republican!

Nice ice cube theory... but it is just a theory..

The question you have to ask yourself is if everybody else is not sick and just this group and this group is the only one that has bad water. It would seem to me that the problem is in the water.

Also we pay Halliburton to keep our troops ready for combat and that is not happening. You can sit and blabber on how the left if blowing this out of poportion and list other places that have bad water it does not take away from the fact Halliburton is not doing their job.

 

[M00T]

Originally posted by: Condor

Originally posted by: M00T
I drank "purified" water over there. I threw up for 24 hours. Severe dehydration came afterwards. The rest of the camp got the hershey squirts. A few others had my symptoms, but the docs covered it up and said "poor hygiene" on our parts.

You didn't use your purification tabs? Your filtration unit? Your head?

Vietnam followed by twenty years of traveling and living abroad and I only had the bug twice. Once was from a hamburger at a McDonalds in Nassau and the other time was from oysters diablo at a Sanborns in the neighborhood in Mexico City. I always carried Lomitil, Vibramiacin, and Tylenol. One of the three of them was bound to get me to the airport in time for my departure flight. Never, ever, trust the water unless it is boiled or purified by filtration or chemical means. I would guess that you know that by now.

Did you not see my reference to "purified"... The water was filtered and cleaned by the engineering unit. It was then collected in a large water resevoir, which we filled our canteens/bottles from.

Marines are not given pruification tabs or filtration units. Head? We didn't have a head... we dug holes in the ground.

 

[piasabird]

Being exposed to contaminated water is nothing new in a time of war.

 

[broon]

This is a non-story. They're in the desert. What person with an IQ over 40 is going to drink water from something other than a sealed waterbottle? If you don't have one of those, use the purification tablets. The hotels in Mexico say they've treated the water and it's safe to drink. Would I drink it? No.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: AndrewR
The KBR chow halls are pretty good overall, at least here at Victory. Of course, if you've never been here, you'd have no idea, but don't let facts get in the way of your diatribes.

I don't drink any water not in a bottle, and neither does anyone else. If they used bad water for washing clothes, big deal. They also regularly test the water. I don't know the exact schedule, but I would be surprised if bad water was allowed through. It's definitely an isolated incident. I doubt that matters to the bashers though.

Hmm - the KBR chow hall was HORRIBLE when I was in the 319 AEG (we were, for example, once served hot dogs and sauteed mushrooms for breakfast), but in all fairness it was safe, and didn't make us sick. It got about 100 times better when AF troops took over preparing the food. Why are they still using KBR to prepare the food at a steady-state base like Camp Victory?

As for the original story here, it hardly seems like anything earth-shaking.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: BBond
Only we keyboard commandos bother to read the articles before commenting on them -- or making excuses for the inexcusable.

At least you finally admit to your title :laugh:

It's the same title you sport, isn't it, Second Lieutenant Logitech?

 

[CaptnKirk]

Last night in an interview with a Congressman, they discussed the 'contamination problem'.

The guy who blew the whistle on Halliburton said that he had quit Halliburton because they had continued to
deliver contaminated water, never even added the chemical treatment (chlorine) that they were contracted
to add prior to delivery, and had continued to do so FOR OVER A YEAR - after it was made an internal record.
All that the Halliburton people and Managment did, was to attempt to cover up their negligence and hide it.
They put more effort into the covering up of the contamination of the water than they did in adding the chlorine
(which they already had in their possesion) but just kept delivering contaminated water from the Euphrates.

Aren't you proud that the 'loaned to the Government from his CEO duties' Cheney is our Vice President ?


Hey - Bubbas ! You don't have to DRINK the water to get sick from it. A cut or abraision on the skin anywhere
lets bacteria and virus enter and attack the body. There are many more ways besides consuming
contaminated water to have it affect you. Even after washing clothes and drying them, some of the contaminates
are present there - now any cut or injury is an entry way as well.
You wash, bathe, rinse, shave, clean off vehicles and equipment, it's a biohazard, dumbass.

 

[PELarson]

Originally posted by: AndrewR
The KBR chow halls are pretty good overall, at least here at Victory. Of course, if you've never been here, you'd have no idea, but don't let facts get in the way of your diatribes.

I don't drink any water not in a bottle, and neither does anyone else. If they used bad water for washing clothes, big deal. They also regularly test the water. I don't know the exact schedule, but I would be surprised if bad water was allowed through. It's definitely an isolated incident. I doubt that matters to the bashers though.

Thanks for your srvoce. Hopefully Halliburton subsidiary KBR set the thermostat on the dish washer to a high enough temperature to kill the germs.

Isn't that "isolated" incident the 1,000 or so "isolated" incident of Halliburton or a subsidiary company?

 

[Todd33]

I think most of you are missing the point of the story. It was the cover up and denial by a contractor paid with your tax money that was the story, not who got sick and who had the squirts. If you really have no interest in holding contractors responsible for their actions and condone cover-ups, then shame on you.

 

[imported_Condor]

Originally posted by: Bowfinger

Originally posted by: Condor

Originally posted by: Bowfinger

Originally posted by: Train
Hate to break it to you guys, but I honestly don't know of a single soldier/sailor/marine/airman who drank anything BUT bottled water in the middle east.

Nobody touches the rivers, most guys wouldn't even wash thier clothes in them.

Another non-issue for the keyboard commandos to get thier panties in a bunch over.

You won't look so foolish next time if you read the article before you jump to attack:

• While bottled water was available for drinking, the contaminated water was used for virtually everything else, including handwashing, laundry, bathing and making coffee, said water expert Ben Carter of Cedar City, Utah.

You're welcome.

Thanks so very much! I think you boil water to make coffee and not so many troops drink from the bath water these days. If they got sick from the water, it was in the form of ice cubes in drinks. They are taught not to accept drinks with ice in them. Most learn very quickly. That is why they vote Republican!

That's nice. Irrelevant -- and lame -- but nice. Any chance you might want to address the point of the OP, that Halliburton didn't provide the clean water it was paid to provide and refused to notify the base of the contamination? Never mind, it's a rhetorical question. Your record of duhversion and denial speaks for itself.

There are 50 states, you know.

I know about solid, liquid and gas. What are the others?

 

[imported_Condor]

Originally posted by: M00T

Originally posted by: Condor

Originally posted by: M00T
I drank "purified" water over there. I threw up for 24 hours. Severe dehydration came afterwards. The rest of the camp got the hershey squirts. A few others had my symptoms, but the docs covered it up and said "poor hygiene" on our parts.

You didn't use your purification tabs? Your filtration unit? Your head?

Vietnam followed by twenty years of traveling and living abroad and I only had the bug twice. Once was from a hamburger at a McDonalds in Nassau and the other time was from oysters diablo at a Sanborns in the neighborhood in Mexico City. I always carried Lomitil, Vibramiacin, and Tylenol. One of the three of them was bound to get me to the airport in time for my departure flight. Never, ever, trust the water unless it is boiled or purified by filtration or chemical means. I would guess that you know that by now.

Did you not see my reference to "purified"... The water was filtered and cleaned by the engineering unit. It was then collected in a large water resevoir, which we filled our canteens/bottles from.

Marines are not given pruification tabs or filtration units. Head? We didn't have a head... we dug holes in the ground.

Good response! I really didn't feel good about beating on you. I didn't realize you were a marine. It maybe won't happen again - can't promise though. If you post enough, I promise to remember your avatar as one due respect.

 

[imported_Condor]

Originally posted by: DonVito

Originally posted by: AndrewR
The KBR chow halls are pretty good overall, at least here at Victory. Of course, if you've never been here, you'd have no idea, but don't let facts get in the way of your diatribes.

I don't drink any water not in a bottle, and neither does anyone else. If they used bad water for washing clothes, big deal. They also regularly test the water. I don't know the exact schedule, but I would be surprised if bad water was allowed through. It's definitely an isolated incident. I doubt that matters to the bashers though.

Hmm - the KBR chow hall was HORRIBLE when I was in the 319 AEG (we were, for example, once served hot dogs and sauteed mushrooms for breakfast), but in all fairness it was safe, and didn't make us sick. It got about 100 times better when AF troops took over preparing the food. Why are they still using KBR to prepare the food at a steady-state base like Camp Victory?

As for the original story here, it hardly seems like anything earth-shaking.

A buddy of mine was at Camp Victory last Dec - May. I think it was Camp Victory. He loved the food and said that Marriot had the contract.