Within one week? Who is going to fly them? Russian pilots?
I have a feeling the vast majority of Sadaam’s air force officers were Sunnis.
Maliki’s scumbag persona is so transparent at this point, I have to wonder why Bush picked him to be head honcho. Yet another of GWB’s head-shakingly bad personnel decisions.
Isn’t Iraq’s air force infrastructure geared to US planes?
Obama is consistently on the wrong side of terrorism and is asking for $500 million to fund the Al Queda backed Syrian rebels. Congress should not only refuse the request, they should pass a law prohibiting him from spending any money to support the Syrian rebels.
I would be skeptical about any of this.
Iraq has enough helicopter force to provide air cover and ground support. - If it can find pilots to fly the things in harms way.
Air superiority fighters aren’t going to do squat, even if they can be tasked to destroy infrastructure - which would be kind of stupid...
Wasn’t “America”, Mr. Maliki.
It was purely Obama. And he sure as hell isn’t America.
Go Russia! Go Iraq! Go Syria! Send Obama and John McCain’s Christian killer jihadi army to Hell!
John Kerry strikes again. Where’ his reset button?
send in the Egyptians- they`ll make mincemeat of ISIS.
The world loves us!
Excellent
The planes are going to end up in the rebel’s hands and who knows where after that.
Better some Migs than F-16s.
We delude ourselves, why should you be different???
what money will they use?
What it really means is that Obama has asked, and is about to get $500 milllion more to arm ISIS and its al-Qaeda peers in Syria, which in turn the Iraq air force will now use Russian jets to bomb.
This is a confused and bizarre foreign policy. It is the kind of policy that only smarmy twits like Marie Harf understand, because no one else can!
The Suadi’s/Qatari’s interest is putting an overland gas pipeline through ISIS territory and Turkey to Europe. With healthy royalties for Turkey.
The Russians (via their Shia proxies in Iran/Syria and now Iraq) interest is stopping this pipeline at all cost as it undermines their near monopoly on proving gas to Europe and the influence associated with such.
Saudi, Qatar, USA, Syrian Rebels, ISIS and Turkey...VS...Syria, Iran, Lebanon (Hezzbulah), and Russia.
Trying to remain, or at least appear neutral: Kurds, Jordan and Kuwait.
It was not America, you put your trust and believed what mac daddy, the worlds greatest liar, told you so your problem is with him not America.