Remember Cash for Clunkers? Why not pour toxics into the engines and innards to destroy them? Cheaper than firing missiles and rockets to blow them apart. This government should have seen this coming; yet they allowed a fierce enemy to take our left-behind equipment.
No doubt. I can see how destruction could have been perceived by the Iraqi government as an insult, but given their cowardice and the fractured regime, these should have been destroyed beyond further use.