Just when you think you couldn't possibly be stunned anymore by how incompetent we are, shit rains from the sky and literally threatens to collapse the ceiling:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092702134.html
Heralded Iraq Police Academy a 'Disaster'
By Amit R. Paley
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 28, 2006; A01
BAGHDAD, Sept. 27 -- A $75 million project to build the largest police
academy in Iraq has been so grossly mismanaged that the campus now
poses health risks to recruits and might need to be partially
demolished, U.S. investigators have found.
The Baghdad Police College, hailed as crucial to U.S. efforts to
prepare Iraqis to take control of the country's security, was so
poorly constructed that feces and urine rained from the ceilings in
student barracks. Floors heaved inches off the ground and cracked
apart. Water dripped so profusely in one room that it was dubbed "the
rain forest."
"This is the most essential civil security project in the country --
and it's a failure," said Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the special inspector
general for Iraq reconstruction, an independent office created by
Congress. "The Baghdad police academy is a disaster."
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The most serious problem was substandard plumbing that caused waste
from toilets on the second and third floors to cascade throughout the
building. A light fixture in one room stopped working because it was
filled with urine and fecal matter. The waste threatened the integrity
of load-bearing slabs, federal investigators concluded.
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Full at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092702134.html