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Daily Mail
Biden claims son Beau 'lost his life in Iraq' as he declares Colorado's Camp Hale a national monument in move that will prevent oil and gas drillingPresident Biden claimed his late son Beau 'lost his life in Iraq,' seemingly convinced the former military reservist died as a result of the brain cancer he came down with after exposure to burn pits.
Speaking near Vail, Colorado, Biden declared the Camp Hale continental divide a national monument.
'I say this as a father of a man and won the Bronze Star, the conspicuous service medal, and lost his life in Iraq,' Biden said.
'Imagine the courage, the daring, and the genuine sacrifice — genuine sacrifice they all made,' he said, telling of how Camp Hale played in training the famed 10th Mountain Division in World War II.
Beau, Delaware's former attorney general, died of brain cancer in 2015. The younger Biden had deployed to Iraq in 2009 and earned a Bronze Star medal for his service there.
President Biden said in 2019 he thought his son had gotten cancer due to 'exposure to burn pits' during his deployment. 'In my view, I can't prove it yet, he came back with stage four glioblastoma. Eighteen months he lived, knowing he was going to die.'
Designating Camp Hale as a national monument was ostensibly for its historic connection to WWII, but also prevented oil and gas drilling on 436 square miles in Colorado in so doing.
Biden has halted new oil and gas leases in federal waters.
The move sidesteps congressional inaction on the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Economy Act, which Colorado's Democratic Sen. Michael Bennett pushed for, at a time when he is locked in a midterm race against Republican Joe O'Dea.
Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, whose Colorado district borders the divide, called the declaring of the some 54,000 acre Camp Hale divide a 'federal land grab.'
Biden also said that he is blocking new mining claims and mineral leases on the 225,000 acres in the Thompson Divide area for at least two years and up to two decades.
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