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Compatible uses do not mix military with agriculture.
 
There is no question the environment, the agriculture based economy, and the Army playing war games all on the same piece of property is not compatible.  Purchasing or leasing - it doesn't matter - either way the control is turned over to the military for them to destroy more property that isn't truly needed.
 
Here is part of a speech given by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and reported in the Chicago Tribune on May 16th of 2003:
 
"The federal government is America’s biggest polluter and the Department of Defence is the government’s worst offender. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, unexploded ordnance waste can be found on 16,000 military ranges across the U.S. and more than half may contain biological or chemical weapons. In total, the Pentagon is responsible for more than 21,000 potentially contaminated sites and, according to the EPA, the military may have poisoned as much as 40 million acres, a little larger than Florida. That result might be considered an act of war if committed by a foreign power."
 
These comments were made last year at a time when the U.S. Defense establishment was attempting to have more of its activities exempted from environmental laws in the US. Bob Feldon of the economic think tank, Dollars and Sense, wrote earlier this year that:
 
"The U.S. Department of Defense is, in fact, the world’s largest polluter, producing more hazardous waste per year than the five largest U.S.. chemical companies combined."
 
Indeed, even members of the US military and the Pentagon itself have admitted that the military bases in the US are an environmental catastrophe. Admiral (ret.) Eugene Carroll, before the First International Conference on US Military Toxics and Bases Clean-up in 1997 stated in reference to Cold War rationale:
 
"In a mindless, criminally negligent process, we poured resources into military expansion both at home and abroad without any regard for the environmental consequences. Pollution was ignored on the grounds that "national security" took absolute priority over all other considerations."
 
 
We ask everyone to join us and to push our leaders and legislators to rein in the DOD and hold them accountable. Let's stop these wasteful
and destructive efforts to seize a huge portion of land in Colorado larger than the State of Connecticut.
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