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'Why Are We Giving F-16s to an Iranian-Infiltrated Government?'
weekly standard ^ | 4/16/15 | LEE SMITH

Posted on 04/16/2015 9:54:53 PM PDT by Nachum

One of the important pieces of news to come out of Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi’s visit to the White House Tuesday is that Iraq will be receiving delivery of F-16s. At Commentary, Max Boot asks if this is such a wise move, “Why Are We Giving F-16s to an Iranian-Infiltrated Government?”

As Boot explains, “the government of Iraq is heavily infiltrated by Iranian agents,” and Abadi himself is an Iranian ally, selected by Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani to replace the former prime minister, also an asset of Tehran’s, Nuri al-Maliki.

“Does it really make safe under those circumstances to deliver to Iraq three dozen high-performance fighter aircraft?” asks Boot.

I, for one, am worried that the fighters could eventually wind up in Iranian hands, buttressing an Iranian Air Force that until now has had to rely on aging F-14 fighters from the 1970s and even F-4s and F-5s from the 1960s. Granted, F-16s aren’t top of the line aircraft anymore—they are outclassed by F-22s and F-35s—but as a matter of policy and law the U.S. does not sell arms to hostile states or to states that might transfer them to hostile states.

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: f16s; government; iran; iranianinfiltrated; iraq; israel; waronterror
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1 posted on 04/16/2015 9:54:53 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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2 posted on 04/16/2015 9:55:13 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; ...

Acitve Duty and F-16 ping.


3 posted on 04/16/2015 9:58:15 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Nachum

[[’Why Are We Giving F-16s to an Iranian-Infiltrated Government?’]]

so they will like us of course you silly- everyone knows that the best way to deal with terrorists is to arm them to the teeth so that they will like us- no need to fear them- the ayatollah assured us they wouldn’t- so sit back and relax- they wouldn’t dream of harming us, and ignore the constant threats of them wanting to annihilate us- our dear leader has assured us it’s all in jest- the more we aRM THem- the more they ‘jest’- what could possibly go wrong?


4 posted on 04/16/2015 10:19:45 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Nachum

What a stupid question.


5 posted on 04/16/2015 10:24:18 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Nachum

Does a feckless fool on a hill come to mind?


6 posted on 04/16/2015 10:26:38 PM PDT by Fungi (So you think you know anything about evolution? Think again.)
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To: Nachum

One of those questions that answers itself.


7 posted on 04/16/2015 10:29:00 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: Nachum

Why not?

America is an Iranian infiltrated govt and we have them.


8 posted on 04/16/2015 10:33:44 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: Sequoyah101

What a stupid question.


No, it’s not a stupid question at all.


9 posted on 04/16/2015 10:35:12 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Heck Obama is arming the entire Middle East...and further it's mighty disturbing that their armies have united...they could just as easily turn on Israel the way they are on ISIS now.

I'm not comfortable at all with all these armaments going to the Middle East nations...especially since we have no way to know who is getting them! It just feels like we're arming/training the Middle East who then can ward off anyone of our troops if we ever have to land there to stop them.

10 posted on 04/16/2015 10:40:24 PM PDT by caww
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To: Nachum

Because we have a traitor in the White House. Next question...


11 posted on 04/16/2015 10:40:30 PM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: Nachum
Max Boot asks if this is such a wise move, “Why Are We Giving F-16s to an Iranian-Infiltrated Government?”

Because the U.S. gov is an Iranian infiltrated government.

12 posted on 04/16/2015 10:45:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: laplata

Yes it is a stupid question. The answer is pbvious. Obungo hates the US.


13 posted on 04/16/2015 10:53:39 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Nachum

This is all meant to checkmate Israel, imo.

A sham deal giving Iran essentially carte blanche developing nukes, Russia selling Iran SAMs, and giving (not even selling) F-16s to Iraq only to very likely end up under Iranian control.


14 posted on 04/16/2015 11:00:56 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Sequoyah101

You and I know it is stupid because we know the answer. But it is not a stupid question for the idiots out there who haven’t a clue.

It doesn’t matter because no one will be able to fix the mess we’re in. No one.


15 posted on 04/16/2015 11:03:48 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

And Israel, seeing that there is a limited window of time to change the “facts on the ground” may very well be pushed to launch a strike before these missiles are delivered.


16 posted on 04/16/2015 11:11:02 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

What would Bill Ayers do?


17 posted on 04/17/2015 1:56:21 AM PDT by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: Nachum
'Why Are We Giving F-16s to an Iranian-Infiltrated Government?'


18 posted on 04/17/2015 4:08:50 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: MichaelCorleone
This is all meant to checkmate Israel, imo.

Absolutely Michael, but you and I know that God has other plans, and that His will succeed.

"I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them," says the LORD your God."

Amos 9:15

God has not yet rendered judgment and punishment directly on Barry Hussein Barack Soetoro Obama.

But someday, He will.


19 posted on 04/17/2015 4:12:18 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Bob434

Noooooo—YOU silly one.

Obambi wants them to WIN and help set up the Caliphate.


20 posted on 04/17/2015 4:34:46 AM PDT by Flintlock (Our soapbox is gone, the ballot box stolen--we're left with the bullet box now.)
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