We didn’t leave them laying around, we left them for the Iraqi military.
There are some 30 nations that use stinger missiles.
Sounds like a lack of or very strange strategic thinking to me. Just why would Iraq need an advanced anti-aircraft weapon? None of their likely opponents had or have an air force. And anybody who thought that the present government of Iraq might fight against Iran is woefully ignorant.
So just exactly what was the logic for leaving advanced portable low altitude anti-aircraft weapons in Iraq? That seems like a good question for a House or Senate committee to ask somebody from the DOD or the White House - behind closed doors and under oath.
Ok. But the article said they were ours as I recall.