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Iraq to spend $13B on U.S. arms, equipment - USATODAY.com

BAGHDAD — Iraq is preparing to buy as much as $13 billion in American arms and military equipment, a huge order of tanks, ships and hardware that U.S. officials say shows Iraqi-U.S. military ties will be tight for years to come.
"It helps to build their capabilities, first and foremost; and second, it builds our strategic relationship for the future," said Army Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, the ranking U.S. officer responsible for training and advising Iraq forces.

With combat operations officially ended, Vice President Biden and Iraqi officials will gather today at a ceremony at the main U.S. base near Baghdad Airport to mark U.S. troops' transition to an advisory role that focuses on assisting Iraqi security forces. The number of U.S. servicemembers has dropped below 50,000. All U.S. forces are scheduled to leave Iraq by the end of next year.

Military sales, which often include lengthy maintenance and training contracts, are part of U.S. efforts to maintain a relationship with Iraq. About half the $13 billion in sales are finalized contracts, and the rest are still in negotiations.




The sales will make Iraq among the world's biggest customers for American military arms and equipment. The Iraq Defense Ministry intends to transform the country's degraded conventional forces into a state-of-the-art military.

"It's going to be a modern and fairly sophisticated military," Barbero said.

Part of the planned purchase includes M-1 tanks, the main battle tank for the U.S. military. Iraq wants to buy 140 of the tanks, and Iraqi crews have already started training on them.

Iraqi forces saw firsthand the effectiveness of America's M-1 tank during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, when the U.S. Army obliterated the slower and less sophisticated Iraqi tanks.

Iraq's conventional weaponry came largely from the Soviet Union and was ravaged by Saddam Hussein's war with Iran in the 1980s and the Gulf War led by the United States. The Iraqi air force was practically wiped out in the wars. Later, United Nations sanctions after the Gulf War prevented Saddam from maintaining his military.

In addition to the $13 billion purchase, the Iraqis have requested 18 F-16 Falcon fighter jets as part of a $3 billion program that also includes aircraft training and maintenance. If approved by Congress, the first aircraft could arrive in spring 2013. Under the plan, the first 10 pilots would be trained in the U.S.
Recent success in battling the Islamist insurgency has allowed Iraq to shift from a lightly equipped counterinsurgency force to a conventional force capable of securing its borders and repelling threats, Barbero said.

"They're at a point now where they're starting to make changes to focus on these conventional capabilities that they need," he said.
 
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Americas weapon sales for next 10 years

$60 Billion from Saudis
$30 Billion from Kuwait
$20 Billion from UAE
$13 Billion from Iraq

And $30 billion free assistance to Israel. Who are they going to fight??

basicaly the arabis are sold downgraded equipment at tripple price effectively funding Israel's weaponary aid indirectly??

The foundation is being laid to thawrt Iran indirectly and bigoted arab vs persian mentality helps a lot here.
 
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Well US invested 800 billion ....

So now it will reclaim 150 billion from Arab states in form of sale of almost obsolete weapons , just will polish the items and put tinted glasses on the items. In 2-3 year

Then US companies will get discounted oil and make 150 billions form
cheap oil products 300 billion dollars recovered in 2-3 years

Good business model :tup:

Also US trade to Iraq & Middle east will also generate another 100 billion dollars over next 5 years -

So 50% of US bail out will be funded by Middle east - technically :coffee:
 
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LOL, now this is what i call conflict profiteering. American business sense outshines all!
 
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good american are providing state of Fart EQUIPENT TO IRAQ TOO
. Why they are selling super awesome f-16 fighters to all the Muslim countries. for the price of a current age fighter.

thanks to uncle Sam.

I dont know how can iraq ever repay united states after this, every iraqi should donate one of their kidney to america.
 
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So US is getting its R&D cost recovered it spent on product called "Free Iraq".
 
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For a war torn country, that is extremely large a military procurement! Wonder if Iraqi government has considered the consequences of spending so much at this critical time.
 
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For a war torn country, that is extremely large a military procurement! Wonder if Iraqi government has considered the consequences of spending so much at this critical time.

For one , its not going to be spent imidiately , secondly a part of it will also come from american aid , and finally Iraq is sitting on 3 Trillion USD worth of oil.

If u read the first article again then u will find that most of the things which the Iraqi want are nessesary for a basic military , considering the fact that Irags military was fully destroyed by the american and present Iraq army ressembles a counter insurgency force not capable of safe guarding its borders , hence the military deal is essential
 
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And so Iraq becomes a vassal state of the US!
Jealous?

Iraq: "We offer ourselves to be Pakistan's vassal state."

Pakistan: "No...No...No...We refuse our muslims brothers' offer of submission."

:lol:
 
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