{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"EXCLUSIVE REPORT: American Military Burn Pits Pollute Afghan Countryside (Part 2 of 3)","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article9030.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article9030.html'\u003EEXCLUSIVE REPORT: American Military Burn Pits Pollute Afghan Countryside (Part 2 of 3)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPentagon officials seem to support the following epitaph for Afghanistan: \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\n\u201cWe had to pollute the Afghan countryside in order to save it from the Taliban.\" \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nIn reality, the American military did not have to pollute.  It chose to be sloppy and reckless and to ignore environmental standards. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\n \t \tOn October 28, 2009, George W. Bush, in one of his last acts as President, signed into law H.R. 2647, which included provisions of \u201cThe Military Personnel War Zone Toxic Exposure Prevention Act.\u201d (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}