Tuesday, October 30, 2007
As If Enough Weren't Going Wrong Already
This has nothing to do with American efforts or bad contracting or the security environment. The dam near Mosul, north of Baghdad, was built in Saddam era. And built very well. Except that it was built on a bed of gypsum, which is water soluble and is seeping crumbling beneath the superstructure. The Iraqi "government" has tried to quash the Army Corps of Engineers warnings for over a year now. No problems! Move along, now. Sure, there is a screwed up repair contract - but what contract re: Iraq is NOT screwed up, full of fraud-waste-abuse? The fundamental problem is that they built the dam on WATER SOLUBLE GYPSUM. Stupidity. Fatal stupidity. Only a question of when.
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