Iraq seeks buying $9 billion of US arms
Pentagon notifies Congress of proposed military sales to Iraq that include helicopters, tanks.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=27226
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said Friday it has notified Congress of proposed military sales to Iraq valued at more than nine billion dollars, including helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles.
The biggest proposed sale was for 392 Light Armored Vehicles, radios and anti-tank weapons at an estimated cost of three billion dollars, the Defense Security and Cooperation Agency said.
Congress also was notified of a possible sale of 140 upgraded M1A1 Abrams tanks as well as armored Humvees, tracked logistics vehicles, armored ambulances, vehicles to carry shelters and command posts, and trucks to transport heavy equipment.
It was valued at 2.16 billion dollars.
A separate 2.4 billion dollar helicopter deal would provide the Iraqi government with 24 Bell Armed 407 helicopters or 24 Boeing AH-6 helicopters, along with engines, missiles, mortars, machineguns, and rocket launchers.
Another proposed sale involved technical assistance in the construction of garrisons, training areas and operational facilities for the Iraqi security forces.
"The total value, if all options are exercised, could be as high as 1.6 billion dollars," the DSCA said.
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PENTAGON PLANS TO SELL $9 BILLION IN WAR ARMS TO IRAQ
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ARE THOSE FUCKIN' PENTAGON FOOLS CRAZY????!!!! THAT, TO ME, IS TANTAMOUNT TO TREASON!!!!! You KNOW that many of those weapons will get into the hands of those we are fighting.
I couldn't agree with you more. If this deal goes through, many of these arms will end up in the hands of the insurgents and here we go again.
Huh? Is this before the defence contractors and Black Water go home?
Geezer Power: I don't know, but I doubt it. The contactors and Blackwater will be there forever after all the damage we did to Iraq.
The Neocons are up to something. It almost smells like a Rumsfeld thing like was done in 1983.
DONALD RUMSFELD, the US Defence Secretary and one of the most strident critics of Saddam Hussein, met the Iraqi President in 1983 to ease the way for US companies to sell Baghdad biological and chemical weapons components, including anthrax and bubonic plague cultures, according to newly declassified US Government documents.
Mr Rumsfeld’s 90-minute meeting with Saddam, preceded by a warm handshake which was captured on film, heralded a US policy under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr of courting the Iraqi leader as an ally throughout the 1980s.
The strategy, seen as a bulwark against the Islamic fundamentalism of Iran, was so obsessively pursued that Washington stepped up arms supplies and diplomatic activity even after the Iraqis had gassed Kurds in northern Iraq in March 1988, according to the records.
A National Security Directive of November 1983 stated that the US would do “whatever was necessary and legal” to prevent Iraq from losing its war with Iran.
From The Times
December 31, 2002
How US helped Iraq build deadly arsenal
Geezer Power: Thanks for the historical perspective. I agree that something is in the wind. Probably in the middle of October just in time to help McCain. They will find some excuse to attack Iran.
And the sad part is this, Cork---most Americans would vote for Hitler--just fly the flag and say it's for America. Am at this minute watching Bill Moyers' program re Jack Abramoff. What a fascist scumbag, along w/his whole crew!
I'm 79 years old so I have seen a lot of administrations come and go, but this crowd in the White House now are by far the worst I've ever seen.
Love Bill Moyer.
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