The media is all excited about a dangerous dam in northern Iraq. Thousands could die. Women and minorities hardest hit.
Since not many are being blown up, they are going after the failures in infrastructure.
Good grief, the democrats are “debating” again tonight.
Why do they bother when the Clintons have decreed that they will be the candidate?
The VERY funniest magazine cover I ever saw was AMERICAN SPECTATOR from back in the early 90s. It was Witch Hillary straddling Air Force One.
YIKES!! not so funny now....the cover might even be more appropriate in 2008!!
The largest dam in Iraq is in serious danger of an imminent collapse that could unleash a trillion-gallon wave of water, possibly killing thousands of people and flooding two of the largest cities in the country, according to new assessments by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other U.S. officials.
Even in a country gripped by daily bloodshed, 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, said Abdulkhalik Thanoon Ayoub, the dam manager. "The Mosul dam is judged to have an unacceptable annual failure probability," in the dry wording of an Army Corps of Engineers draft report.
At the same time, a U.S. reconstruction project to help shore up the dam in northern Iraq has been marred by incompetence and mismanagement, according to Iraqi officials and a report by a U.S. oversight agency to be released Tuesday. The reconstruction project, worth at least $27 million, was not intended to be a permanent solution to the dam's deficiencies.
"In terms of internal erosion potential of the foundation, Mosul Dam is the most dangerous dam in the world," the Army Corps concluded in September 2006, according to the report to be released Tuesday. "If a small problem [at] Mosul Dam occurs, failure is likely."
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Too bad for the other guy who actually did the on the scene reporting.
not so funny now....the cover might even be more appropriate in 2008!!
Luckily we've got more than a year before the sheeple actually have to pull that lever for her so next Halloween we can really make the comparison. :)