So, we are now selling weapons to Iraq? How interesting.

[lottie244]

More for the military-industrial-complex. Now when the US-installed regime is overthrown by Iraqi citizens they will really have WMDs and be a threat to the region.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. link, s'il vous plait?

[lottie244]

11. Just announced on CNN

No link yet.

[kentuck]

2. Yeah....That's what George W Bush calls the "vision" thing....

They cannot look as far into the future as tomorrow. What a bunch of morons!

[BlueEyedSon]

3. What a great idea, another potentially failed state with US weapons!

[fdr_hst_fan]

5. Here we go again...

:wtf: :puke:

[gratuitous]

4. Hey, c'mon, don't be hatin' people

Surely you don't think those arms will e-e-e-ever fall into the wrong hands? Or be sold by desperate Iraqis on the black market? I mean, you'd have to think the Pentagon just loses money and arms! That it can't account for over a trillion dollars or a few nuclear devices. This is a brilliant idea! No way any of those weapons will be turned against our own people, because Simpleton W. Bush is too smart for that to happen.

[fdr_hst_fan]

6. I don't hate PEOPLE;

I only hate SMIRK, and in MY book, he doesn't COUNT as people, only as VERMIN!

:nopity: :mad: :puke:

[Q]

7. Shock and Awe. Invade. Occupy. War profiteering....

...Puppet government. Urban warfare. American soldiers dying daily.

- Yeah...now let's sell them more weapons.

- Why?

- Follow the money trail.

[74dodgedart]

8. They buy them with the money we give them..

Straight from the taxpayers pocket to the pockets of corporations..

Now that's wealth redistribution

[G_j]

9. Arms Suppliers Scramble into Iraq

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/07/20040721-7.html

Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Presidential Determination No. 2004-40

SUBJECT: Eligibility of Iraq to Receive Defense Articles and Services Under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as Amended, and the Arms Export Control Act, as Amended

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 503(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and section 3(a)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act, as amended, I hereby find that the furnishing of defense articles and services to Iraq will strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace.

You are authorized and directed to report this finding to the Congress and to publish it in the Federal Register.

GEORGE W. BUSH


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http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/consequences/2004/0712armstrade.htm

Arms Suppliers Scramble into Iraq
By Thalif Deen

Inter Press Service
July 12, 2004

When the 15-member United Nations Security Council legitimized the US-imposed interim government in Baghdad in June, the five-page unanimous resolution carried a provision little publicized in the media: the lifting of a 14-year arms embargo on Iraq. The Security Council's decision to end military sanctions on Iraq has triggered a rush by the world's weapons dealers to make a grab for a potentially multimillion-dollar new arms market in the already over-armed Middle East.

The former US-run Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), which handed over power to the new Iraqi government on June 28, finalized plans for the purchase of six C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft, 16 Iroquois helicopters and a squadron of 16 low-flying, light reconnaissance aircraft - all for delivery by next April. The proposed purchases were part of an attempt to rebuild and revitalize Iraq's sanctions-hit, weapons-starved military.

But some experts question the strategy. "The flow of weapons to Iraq will not improve the security situation in Iraq, nor will it make the country safe from outside threats or an external invasion," said Naseer H Aruri, chancellor professor (emeritus) at the University of Massachusetts. "With 140,000 US military personnel, 20,000 from the so-called coalition of the willing and another 20,000 contracted civilians, Iraq remains occupied and denied effective sovereignty," said Aruri, author of Dishonest Broker: The US Role in Israel and Palestine.

"Purchasing weapons at this time, therefore, is more relevant to the needs of the occupier relating to the suppression of armed opposition, and consolidation of US hegemony. Moreover, it is not appropriate for the interim government, a subcontracting agency for the United States, to go shopping for arms as numerous arms exporting countries compete feverishly for contracts," he told Inter Press Service (IPS).

..more..

[lottie244]

12. Thanks.

:hi:

[Soth]

10. Well, naturally!

Of course we're selling arms to Iraq! We've always done that to keep Communi...er...terrorism at bay! Get with the program! What, you think some leader the US government trusts will suddenly start using these armaments to squash his adversaries? Right, like that's ever happened!

*sarcasm off*

[Guaranteed]

13. Lemme guess: United Defense. nt