U.S. Shoots Itself In the Foot By Accidentally Arming ISIS (June 4, 2015 )

the fiscal times ^ | June 4, 2015 | Eric Pianin

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One of the earliest major setbacks in the war against ISIS came last June when the U.S.-backed Iraqi army was routed by Islamic militants in the northern Iraq city of Mosul. Government forces retreated from the Islamic jihadists’ assault. They left behind a trove of costly military hardware, including U.S.-made armored Humvees, trucks, rockets, machine guns and even a helicopter.

Last weekend, the new Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, gave Iraqi state television the first detailed accounting of those lost weapons. Some were old or barely functioning, but others were in good shape and of great value to the ISIS militants.

Although al-Abadi and other Iraqi and U.S. officials haven’t attached a dollar sign to the lost weaponry and vehicles, a back-of-the-envelope calculation of those losses might look something like this:

•2,300 Humvee armored vehicles @ $70,000 per copy. Total: $161 million

•40 M1A1 Abram tanks @ $4.3 million per copy. Total: $172 million

•52 M198 Howitzer mobile gun systems @ $527,337 per copy. Total: $27.4 million

•74,000 Army machine guns @ $4,000 per copy. Total: $296 million

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If someone left a loaded handgun laying on a coffee table in a house full of children and someone ended up shot and killed with that gun as a result, I think the argument could be made that the person who left the gun laying on the table was, at the very least, primarily responsible. The argument could be made that the act was so criminally negligent that it was, for all intents and purposes, intentional.

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“accidentally”

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Rule number 1 of arming foreign insurgencies: do it through foreign intermediaries so you can claim you didn’t do it later.

Hussein Obama, America's FIRST Muslim President, knows almost all of the presstitutes are near brain dead fools. Because the brain dead population believes for the most part what the presstitues tell them, Hussein has NOT had to give a rip about covering his tracks.

Even some of the Demorats are starting to figure out they have been had by a Muslim terrorist playing President. No fair, they argue, he was supposed to be a Martin Luther King race uniter.

It's so easy to fool Americans, you only have to fool the presstitutes and America will believe almost any lie.