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By Vertical Frankenstein (Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 10:42:05 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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