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By Vertical Frankenstein (Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 05:42:05 AM EST) dam, damn dam, iraq, freedom (all tags)

What do you get when you combine Iraq and New Orleans?

This:

the possibility of a catastrophic failure of the Mosul Dam has alarmed American officials, who have concluded that it could lead to as many as 500,000 civilian deaths by drowning Mosul under 65 feet of water and parts of Baghdad under 15 feet

And of course we learn:

a U.S. reconstruction project to help shore up the dam in northern Iraq has been marred by incompetence and mismanagement.

Freedom is on the march!

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They blame mismanagement by sasquatchan (4.00 / 1) #1 Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 05:57:26 AM EST

but I mean, duh-huh, build a damn dam on gypsum, that dissolves in water ? And I forget the number of lbs/gallons/whatever, but they have friggen pumps running 24/7 who's job is to pump grout in to fill the sink holes ? Geeze. Maybe the flood would be for the better...

Sure, blame the US, but this wasn't something they broke, designed, or whatever. Maybe failed to maintain, if anything. It's a clusterfsck the US inherited.

: I'm not disputing that by Cloaked User (4.00 / 1) #2 Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 06:02:13 AM EST

But from the sounds of it, they're not making it any better either.

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: Agreed by Vertical Frankenstein (2.00 / 0) #5 Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 09:57:05 AM EST

The Iraqi engineers created this problem by building a dam on an unstable location. But I also subscribe to the four year old in a china store policy: you break it you buy it.
Until the U.S. hands over power to regional authorities, it's their responsibility.

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Now we just need to herd the insurgents to Mosul by chuckles (4.00 / 1) #3 Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 06:38:02 AM EST

FREEDOM IS ON TEH MARCH!

"The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin [...] would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities"

: All your damz by Vertical Frankenstein (2.00 / 0) #4 Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 09:52:17 AM EST

are belong to U.S.!

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to be fair by aphrael (2.00 / 0) #6 Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 09:55:44 PM EST

the iraqi irrigation system worked fantastically well throughout antiquity and right up into the middle ages.

and then the mongols came.

and it ain't worked quite right ever since then.
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