That dam is a POS that needs to be rebuilt from the ground up in an entirely new location. Good Luck.
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[rQUOTEr]Obama could decide on greater troop presence in Iraq soon: general President Barack Obama will have the chance to decide on whether to increase the number of U.S. forces in Iraq in the "coming weeks," the top U.S. general said on Wednesday. The extra troops would bolster the capabilities of Iraqi forces preparing for a major offensive against the Islamic State militant group in Mosul, U.S. Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a news briefing. U.S. and Iraqi military officials have been discussing a plan to retake Mosul, which fell to Islamic State in June 2014, and how U.S. forces could support their efforts, Dunford said. ...[/rQUOTEr] I guess we knew this was going to happen. I don't think the State Department (John Kerry) would mess around by releasing a memo that states that the Mosul Dam may blow. Here is that memo:
Interesting times in Iraq. [rQUOTEr]After bombings in Baghdad kill 77, Sadr's forces deploy in some areas At least 77 people were killed and more than 140 wounded by three bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday, extending the deadliest spate of attacks in the Iraqi capital so far this year and driving Shi'ite fighters into the streets to defend some areas. Powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr blamed the government for failing to provide security and hundreds of militiamen loyal to him deployed in Sadr City and five other mainly Shi'ite areas where the worst of the recent violence has been centered. ... In a statement, Sadr called the bombings "the clearest evidence that your government has become incapable of protecting you and providing you with security". Camouflaged fighters from his Peace Brigades deployed throughout Sadr City, riding in pickups mounted with machine guns, preventing any cars from stopping and controlling key intersections. A Reuters witness said they heavily outnumbered government security forces, which maintained a presence only at the main entrances to the neighborhoods. Sadr's fighters set up tents outside markets where women were searching female shoppers after initial investigations revealed that the bomber in al-Shaab was a woman. ... [/rQUOTEr]
[rQUOTEr] Bombs kill more than 140 in Syrian government-held cities: monitor Bomb blasts killed scores of people in Jableh and Tartous on Syria's Mediterranean coast on Monday and wounded many others in the government-controlled territory that hosts Russian military bases, monitors and state media said. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks in the cities that have up to now escaped the worst of the violence in the five-year-old conflict, saying it was targeting members of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority. ... One of the four blasts in Jableh hit near a hospital and another at a bus station. The Tartous bombs also targeted a bus station, the Observatory and state media reported.[/rQUOTEr]
Hitting Russian and Assad interests is better than hitting US interests, but a hospital and a bus station? Needless to say, they didn't impact any of the decision-makers there. 140 dead for nothing.
It turns out in the meantime, of all this Trump Jr coverage, the ISIS leader has been killed and Mosul liberated - nearly simultaneously.
Obama and Bush Jr's team seem to have done a great job training Iraqi military to deal with this. Excellent job by U.S. military in providing the support in the operations. It's never a bad thing when ISIS loses ground.
This is true, but it's just a damn shame that we abandoned the country in the first place and let ISIS take Mosul to begin with. The entire city was destroyed and thousands of people lost their lives (6500+ alone just when Mosul fell) due to misguided leadership by Bush and Obama. Had the US stayed in Iraq till a time that they were truly ready to fend for themselves, this tragedy and many others would have been avoided.....and it's not like people didn't see it coming, they just didn't care.
