Kleptocracy

Americans provide ’scrap’ Soviet arms to Iraqi Army

The American companies who won contracts to supply the Iraqi Amy found these antiquated weapons at rock-bottom prices in East Europe … This allows them to pocket the surplus from the massive appropriations designated for the creation of the Iraqi Army.

And if American troops die because these greedheads supplied them with inferior equipment, hey, their profits are up, and that’s what it’s all about, right?

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