Geez, we’re even the ones who gave bin Laden weapons first to fight the Soviets. We sold arms to Saddam to fight the Iranianians, and to the Iranians to fight back.
This is insane. Our country is just stark, raving mad, and the only ones who benefit are the war profiteers and arms dealers.
US military arming Sunni groups in Iraq: report – Yahoo! News
US military commanders in Iraq are turning to a new counterinsurgency strategy, which involves arming Sunni Arab groups that have promised to fight militants linked with Al-Qaeda, The New York Times reported on its website late Sunday.
Citing unnamed US commanders, the newspaper said the strategy has been successfully tested in Anbar Province, and US commanders have held talks with Sunni groups in at least four areas of central and north-central Iraq where the insurgency has been strong.
In some cases, the US commanders say, the Sunni groups are suspected of involvement in past attacks on American troops or of having links to such groups, the report said.
Some of these groups, they say, have been provided, usually through Iraqi military units allied with the Americans, with arms, ammunition, cash, fuel and supplies.
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