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    US to send new arms, artillery to Iraq to fight Al Qaeda

    US agrees to send new arms, artillery to Iraq to fight Al Qaeda

    By Jennifer Griffin
    Published January 17, 2014 FoxNews.com



    The United States has agreed to send new arms to Iraq to thwart Al Qaeda-linked militants currently controlling Fallujah following a request by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, senior defense officials told Fox News.

    Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, declined to detail the immediate status of those trainers, but did confirm Maliki’s request, adding that the United States will send “several thousand” M-16 and M-4 rifles, as well as ammunition. The new weapons have been “sourced,” Warren said, and should arrive in Iraq in weeks. The United States is also in discussions with the Iraqis to send officials to Jordan to train Iraqi security forces.


    Maliki also requested an additional 100 Hellfire missiles, a second U.S. defense official told Fox News. That request must be approved by Congress, however.


    The United States has delivered more than $14 billion in equipment, services and training to the Iraqi military and security forces since 2005, according to Department of Defense statistics. In the past year alone, the United States delivered six C-130J aircraft and a Rapid Avenger surface-to-air missile battery. Additionally, a total of 140 M1A1 tanks have been provided between 2010 and 2012.


    Vice President Joe Biden spoke to the Iraqi leader earlier this month, although weapons – artillery and assault rifles – were not discussed. Also earlier this month, Biden also spoke with Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi, a Sunni leader and frequent critic of Maliki's Shiite-led government. The two discussed ways to sustain cooperation between Sunni communities and the Shiite-led government, and al-Nujaifi said he was committed to fighting terrorism, The Associated Press reports.


    The Obama administration has been criticized recently by those who question whether Iraq would be better off today had the U.S. left a military presence in Iraq, as it is attempting to do in Afghanistan while it winds down its war there.


    White House spokesman Jay Carney has said such violence in Iraq took place even when there were 150,000 U.S. troops there. While the United States can aide Iraqis, the war-torn country must take the lead, Carney said.


    "If members (of Congress) were suggesting that there should be American troops fighting and dying in Fallujah today, they should say so," Carney said on Jan. 6. "The president doesn't believe that."


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    The cost of that "30 day cakewalk" continues. Give them clubs and knives until they demonstrate that they can and will put up a fight, and when necessary to retreat to bring their arms and uniforms with them.


    Eisenhower warned us to stay out of middle Eastern affairs. Our unquenchable thirst for oil washed that advice away from a republican unwilling to take a great General's advice, not to mention watched Afghanis nearly single handedly cause financial collapse of the Soviet Union. There are so many smarter ways we could have chosen to throw away a few trillion dollars. I fear that re-involving ourselves will cost another trillion. Iraq insisted we leave, we did their bidding, so now it is their war! The pat President envisioned an entire Middle east composed of democracies. May he live so long to see that?

    Only one nation in that part of the world we should ever go to war with or for and thus far that nation, Israel, has always held its own. May it always be so determined!

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    MSNBC
    'Most of us think we did the right thing in Iraq'

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    Following up on this morning's report, Dick Cheney was on Capitol Hill once again today, delivering yet another round of advice to congressional Republicans on foreign policy as if he still has credibility on the subject...
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