Reply #3: I hope they didn't actually say "swimmingly"

[Ian David]

Iraqi dam could collapse at any time, kill 500,000 people

posted at 1:52 pm on October 30, 2007 by Allahpundit


Of all the unrealistic expectations before the war, the one I was most unrealistic about was the pace of improvements to Iraq’s infrastructure. The Army Corps of Engineers would upgrade all the big stuff in a year or two, I thought — the electrical grid, oil capabilities, you name it. The fact that they’re talking now about a 65-foot wall of water set to descend on Mosul has an almost Old Testament aspect to it as a rebuke to that belief.

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