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Meanwhile, at military bases around the
country they've been dumping hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic
wastes, including chemical warfare agents, napalm, explosives, PCB's,
and heavy metals, creating malignant lagoons and contaminating the
groundwater of surrounding communities.
There are 11,000 military dump sites that need to be cleaned up. The
estimated cost -- $100 to $200 billion.
I say, let's fence 'em all off and call them national security sacrifice
zones. [113]
DANGER. KEEP OUT. TOXIC WASTE.
He's serious -- that's what some people are proposing.
Nearly everyone in this country pays a high price for militarism. But
those among us who have paid the highest price are the millions of
soldiers who have been sent overseas to fight.
More than 100,000 U.S. soldiers and sailors have died in foreign wars
since U.S. troops were sent to Korea in 1950. [114]
Hundreds of thousands more have been wounded, many disabled for life.
Many Gulf War veterans are suffering the effects of "Gulf War Syndrome."
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