“That’s why you guys got your (butts) kicked,” he told the Iraqi generals, before they flew back to Baghdad to consult with their bosses on the sale’s pros and cons.

Remember that line as you read this post.

I came across this article that was more than a little eye opening. See, now that the Iraqi military was destroyed army we get to sell them them weapons of self defense. Check out this article.

Iraq is fast becoming one of the United States’ top customers for military sales. Since January 2007, Iraq has spent $3.1 billion on U.S. weapons. That number looks likely to grow exponentially as Iraq uses its vast unspent reserves of petrodollars to develop its army into a force capable of defending its borders against hostile neighbors.

In the past two months alone, the Pentagon has alerted Congress of a possible $8.7 billion worth of additional military sales to Iraq, for everything from lightweight attack helicopters to armored ambulances to binoculars.

But the article was about selling M1 tanks to the Iraqi Military. Slto7 knows something about the Abrams tank. 120mm gun, thermal imaging, 70 tons of pure steel power, The ground as shakes this beast of war passes by.   it is simply a fearsome war machine.

{Iraq} is considering buying 140 of the United States’ most advanced tanks, at approximately $4 million to $5 million per tank, plus hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of support equipment to go along with the tanks.

I mean Iraq isn’t exactly stable, they are going to spend a billion dollars on tanks,  tanks for self defense that the per Brig. Gen. Charles Luckey owner of the quote that opened this post says is the reason the Iraqi’s got their butt kicked -when we invaded Iraq in 1991.

Heavy Irony with a dose of cynicism (my bold) .

Iraq uses its vast unspent reserves of petrodollars to develop its army into a force capable of defending its borders against hostile neighbors.

Vast eh?

Actually, we are probably looking at transferring our tanks to the Iraqi Army and buying new ones for our forces.   We get to save shipping costs home when we withdraw.