Iraq Gets $2 Billion Weapons Package from the Pentagon

http://www.dodbuzz.com/2013/08/07/iraq-may-buy-2-4-billion-air-defense-system/

This is an interesting article by Military.com.  It is about a multi-billion dollar weapons package that will be potentially sold to the battered and economically distraught country of Iraq by the U.S. weapons manufacturing mafia. The comments left below the article are interesting as well.  The common perception left in the comment box is that of somehow Iraq is duping “us” into rearming them so that “they” can latter use those same weapons against “us” or give it to someone else to use against us.  It seems to me that the only ones getting duped here are the Iraqi people and the American public (one have to separate the American public from the American government, two different entities with two different interests in mind).  Despite the oil riches, Iraq is an economic dependent country.  The U.S. installed government sold off the country’s oil riches to transnational petroleum corporations and their people continue to be deprived of basic stuff, water and electricity, not to mention, security.  Yet, somehow they (the Iraqi government) manage to get $2 billion to buy air defense weapon systems that is now being “sold” to them.  Who are they suppose to use these weapons on? Iran? Saudi Arabia?  Al Qaeda?

 The first country’s military doctrine is not known to be an offensive one but a defensive one to use against invaders wanting to attack the home country for the past 30 plus years of its Islamic Revolution.  Iran have not fought a war of aggression or its military attacked any country for the last 200 years of its history, and fought a devastating 8 year war against Iraq, only after Iraq was encouraged by the West to invade the Persian country in 1980.   The later country [Saudi Arabia] is also dependent on U.S. and British weaponry and have historically served as a proxy to U.S. interest, having only been in two, perhaps three military engagement since its 78 years of existence as a country: one being the First Gulf War (1990-1991), the second being the recent invasion of Bahrain (2011) to support the ruling government, nevertheless, in their confrontation against its people protesting the country's monarchy, and third, and if one wants to count it as a military engagement, the incursion and bombing sorties over Yemeni territory to bomb Yemeni rebels threatening the Yemeni government.  And, Al Qaeda does not have planes.  

One has to realize, that the only country with the capacity to attack Iraq, apart from Israel (which they won’t do without U.S. consent), where these conventional anti-aircraft weapon system could be possibly used, is the U.S.  However, U.S. military and weapons superiority will certainly destroy these anti-aircraft systems, nonetheless. 

 So how, where and why is the Iraqi government getting these $2 billion to spend on modern anti-aircraft weapon systems?  Well, from you and me, of course.  Currently, Iraq is a U.S. dependency where it relays on the millions of U.S. tax payers’ dollars for its survival, at a time when aggressive austerity policies is being applied on the U.S. public taking many to the brink of poverty and impoverishing more people who were already in poverty.  I’m not mad at Iraq for taking those millions of dollars.  It’s only right after being unjustly invaded and destroyed and its people slaughtered by U.S. and allied forces, but what gets me is that those tax dollars that are being injected into its coffers presented as a benevolent U.S. aid that is supposed to be used for the country’s reconstruction, but it is being instead diverted or transferred, by political pressure no doubt from you know who, to fill instead the coffers of American weapons manufactures. In other words, U.S. tax payers’ dollars that is supposed to go to reconstruction and aid for the Iraqi people is being instead transferred, like a blood transfusion, to fill the pockets of weapons manufacturers and war profiteers.  This is windfall for the Industrial Military Complex.  Simply put, A=W=A=P, which means the selling of more Weapons equals the continuation of War, equals the selling of more Weapons, equals Profit.