Posted on 12/27/2010 7:02:18 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
This article is so far out ATT as to be fantacy.
The work of someone who is clueless...
The Iraqis are going with a mix of used Mirage 2000s and new F16 Block 52s.
http://home.comcast.net/~djyae/site/?/blog/view/81/
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Indeed!
“Divide and Conquer” the Muslims should be the USA foreign policy - It is INSANE for the USA to attempt “nation building” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We should be ENCOURAGING wars between Muslim nations.
We didn’t leave the nazis in charge in Germany. In Iraq the muslims remain in charge with sharia enshrined in their constitution. And Christians are being cleansed as we speak.
Mission accomplished?
Thanks for the information.
It would be a shame if oine day we had to fight these tanks, and it is well within the realm of possibility.
We have given weapons to others before only to have them used against us.
5 countries [US/RS/CH/UK/FR] make 70 percent of the words military weapons. 85 percent of the aircraft. Exports are how they support the industry for their military force.
The exports are ussually less capable than used domestically. E.G. the lack of DU armor on export M1A1s is the equivalent of 2 inches less of steel armor.
And certain systems are not exported. Everything we are SELLING to Iraq is 1970/1980s tech. What we are donating is 1960s/1970s equipment that we are eliminating from our inventory.
I beleive most can make their own ammo.
Who will maintain them?
Not the Iraqi’s.
The reason they fly russian helicopters is that they cannot handle the maintenance load of the Black Hawks, 47’s and 53’s.
Someone is inline for a massive advisor/tech support contract.
Our tax dollars at work.
Once the US leaves these weapons will be used to kill Christians, Sunnis and Kurds, not Iranians.
Why the USA politicians wasted $3 to $4 trillion dollars of taxpayer money and suffered 4,500 killed and 33,000 wounded just to build another disfunctional militant muslim terrorist state is a question for the ages.
They will not be our friends.
No matter how much we do for them and how much we spend building their army they will always remember we invaded their country and killed their fathers, sons and husbands.
Yeah, I don’t understand why we killed all those Germans and Japanese in order to build a new Army for each of them.
Rolls eyes.
Soon to be turned loose on Iraqi Christians....
Osama is gonna love having all those nice tanks!
When moontarder(Muqtada al-Sadr) takes over he will really like those things.
UN Arab Development Report( it’s on line, pdf, somewhere)
Anyway, there are about 600 million ‘Arabs’, in about 20 countries, from the Alantic to Iraq. 1-2 dollars per day per person. Half or more illiterate. Half of the countries reporting no social statistics. Total GDP for all, less then Finland, or Norway. Not one world class manufactured product or service or university.
Supposedly there is no word for ‘work’ in Arabic. Arab culture looks down on workmen, skilled trades, technicians. I knew a American tec that installed million dollar equipment in plants in the ME. The owners would never come to the floor to inspect thier capital purchase, unlike a US or EU buisness owner who would crowd around the new, expensive, productive tool.
I stand corrected.
The Iraqi logistics system is still in it's infancy. They cannot maintain their HMMWV's without US assistance. These tanks will end up in Iranian hands, either by gift, or as war trophies, and with Maliki's ties to Tehran, my money is on the gifts.
The Iraqis fly US, French, and Russian helos.
And the only reason they have Russian Mi-17s is because the US pushed them to buy them.
The reason MNSTC-I pushed the Iraqis to buy Mi-17s is because Iraq has 900 trained Mi-17 pilots/flight engineers.
[My source for that detail is Major Tony Sidoti - former MNSTC-I CAFTT. He also said they had to talk them out of buying Blackhawks. IMoD has an adversion to “Russian Junk”.]
Iraqi MoI is currently looking at buying Blackhawks.
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