[Military Environmental Forum] VETERANS: Beyond Camp Lejeune (NC)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

President Trump Stands with Veterans?

By Pat Elder
Military Poisons
October 25, 2026

President Trump to veterans seeking compensation for severe illness: “If we don’t win, there’s no money.”

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By reducing a human rights crisis to a political bargaining chip, the administration leverages Camp Lejeune as a kind of a prop to showcase a commitment to military veterans. This promised payout functions as a highly localized concession—one designed to obscure a sprawling, global US military contamination crisis.

This approach to veteran care ignores a darker history. For decades, under both Republican and Democratic control, the U.S. government has systematically neglected hundreds of thousands of military veterans exposed to lethal contamination worldwide. Weaponizing this singular case as proof of a pro-veteran agenda is a calculated political move.  It hides the federal government's staggering liability for a massive population of sick service members who have suffered identical exposures at hundreds of other military installations, but who receive a pittance, or are denied compensation.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/president-trump-stands-with-veterans


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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