CNN's Amanpour reporting thousands of pieces new equipment for Iraqi Army

[KoKo]

She says body army, vehicles, weaponry, supplies for the training of the
new Iraqi Army are now on their way to Iraq. (what about when our soldiers were short of supplies?)

What happened to the equipment Saddam's soldiers had? Why are our tax dollars going to give the Iraqi Army brand new equipment?

Oops...I forgot...supplying all that equipment means our states with closed textile mills can jump start and get those folks back to work.

(I don't know about some of you, but this makes me sick that we are paying for all new equipment for the Iraq Army when Saddam seemed to do very well with what his soldiers had. :-()

[skooooo]

1. Just in time for the civil war..

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. All politics. * doesn't care that Iraqis are protected, just

wants to cover himself so that world leaders can't say he provided the Iraqis with shoddy equipment. *stupid RW logic*

[jmowreader]

3. They gotta do it this way

This is how we're gonna "protect our forces" in Iraq during the transition to democratic rule.

First, we're gonna pass out the M-16s to everyone. Police up all those old-fashioned, heavy-ass AK-47s too.

Then we'll police up whatever lube the Iraqis were using on their AK-47s and replace it with Break-Free.

And finally, we'll dredge up a big pile of ammo that's got howitzer powder, not rifle powder, in it.

Between the sand, the howitzer powder and the shitty excuse for a lube Break-Free is, there should be exactly three working rifles in the hands of the Iraqis by the end of the year. Those guys we will immediately fly out of the country and give good jobs to. (Ashcroft will decide that the only things they're fit to run are convenience stores and hotels. Backfire to the Crisco King: you know how much money a convenience store brings in?)

Okay, seriously guys, this is pretty fucked up right here. Saddam could have had any weapons he wanted--he chose Soviet weapons because Soviet weapons are cheap, easy to maintain, easy to operate, and they WORK! Why the hell is the US buying them weapons when they have the right stuff already?

[KoKo]

5. ROFL! Great Gallows Humor......

Thanks....for the perspective...:yourock:

[ShaneGR]

4. You mean the same decade (sometimes more) old equipment?

The same equipment we rolled over in less than a month? Most of it is either too old, broken, or unusable. Not giving them new equipment is the equivalent of "here's a slingshot, make sure you aim at the trigger finger of the guy with the RPG."

So I disagree on this one.