The Big Knife Fight
So last night seemed like another typical night. I leave work at around 7:15 PM and head for the DFAC for dinner and then 'home' to the hooch to watch The Daily Show and/or The Colbert Report (if I stay up that late). But the news this morning is about the Big Knife Fight! It seems a few ITT employees (Army contractors) we're sitting around drinking booze (strike 1) and one probably said to the other "your wife is uglier than an Iraqi camel" (or something to that affect) So OUT some the knives! (strike 2) and one guy ends up stabbed 11 times! (strike 3) They're both going home but one or both may still face felony charges when he's 'greeted' at the airport by police. Yes they cuff them right there at the airport. So what does this mean to me? Well... I think we can expect a BIG health and welfare hooch inspection tomorrow morning!
OH, and it just gets bettter! Today on the news I see that Mosul damn is in danger of collapsing. Mosul is north of us by a few hundred miles. If it collapsed, the flood here (at Camp Anaconda where I am) would be about 15 feet deep. From the news article on msn.com:"Mosul Dam is 'unsafe' in any definition," "Condition continually degrading" and "Failure mode is credible." Under a section labeled "Consequences of Failure," it says: "Mass civilian fatalities."t Ayoub said U.S. officials spoke in person about the dam in even more apocalyptic terms. "They went to the Ministry of Water Resources and told them that the dam could collapse any day," he said.
Dman if it ain't the mortars or bugs or snakes it's a damn dam that's trying to kill us now! What's next?
So last night seemed like another typical night. I leave work at around 7:15 PM and head for the DFAC for dinner and then 'home' to the hooch to watch The Daily Show and/or The Colbert Report (if I stay up that late). But the news this morning is about the Big Knife Fight! It seems a few ITT employees (Army contractors) we're sitting around drinking booze (strike 1) and one probably said to the other "your wife is uglier than an Iraqi camel" (or something to that affect) So OUT some the knives! (strike 2) and one guy ends up stabbed 11 times! (strike 3) They're both going home but one or both may still face felony charges when he's 'greeted' at the airport by police. Yes they cuff them right there at the airport. So what does this mean to me? Well... I think we can expect a BIG health and welfare hooch inspection tomorrow morning!
OH, and it just gets bettter! Today on the news I see that Mosul damn is in danger of collapsing. Mosul is north of us by a few hundred miles. If it collapsed, the flood here (at Camp Anaconda where I am) would be about 15 feet deep. From the news article on msn.com:"Mosul Dam is 'unsafe' in any definition," "Condition continually degrading" and "Failure mode is credible." Under a section labeled "Consequences of Failure," it says: "Mass civilian fatalities."t Ayoub said U.S. officials spoke in person about the dam in even more apocalyptic terms. "They went to the Ministry of Water Resources and told them that the dam could collapse any day," he said.
Dman if it ain't the mortars or bugs or snakes it's a damn dam that's trying to kill us now! What's next?
posted by Chris in Iraq @ 7:50 PM
2 Comments:
At 6:10 AM,
Harry said…
I'll send you some water wings.
At 4:35 AM,
Anonymous said…
Actually, one of the guys was sleeping with the other guys wife--that's why he was stabbed. We just happened to just walk inside our CHUs (two CHUs away) when it all happened. In fact, they never did find the other knife....
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