In today’s papers and news websites, a new scandal and a predictable catastrophe are revealed to the world. The Iraqi corrupt government, which has done nothing positive since it came to power, wasted $27 Million which was supposed to be used for the reconstruction of the Mosul Dam. According to the BBC, a US watchdog said reconstruction of the dam had been plagued by mismanagement and potential fraud, and that among the faults were faulty construction and delivery of improper parts, as well as projects which were not completed despite full payments having been made.
Due to the corruption and misuse of the funds, the dam is now in serious danger of an imminent collapse that could unleash a trillion-gallon wave of water, possibly killing as much as 500,000 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, the Washington Post reported. Out of concern, the top US military commander in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, and US ambassador Ryan Crocker then wrote to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki urging him to make fixing the dam a "national priority". Recklessly, the government ignored all the calls to save the city from a possible flood, Iraqi authorities say they are taking steps to reduce the risk and they do not believe there is cause for alarm.
This government and parliament need to be spat at for the failure of every thing. No water, no electricity, no fuel, no schools, no safe streets and neighborhoods, and now what? A broken dam! Damn!!! A possible flood! As if the number of Iraqis dying everyday is nothing! How are people in Mosul supposed to digest this news? Flood?! Where would they go? It’s even dangerous to go from one city to the other!
This government must be replaced. All these politicians need to be changed. None of them have even brought up the subject in the parliament session. You know why? Because they were busy fighting and spitting at each other.
