Our ambassador, James Jeffrey, held a roundtable discussion with reporters yesterday. In addition to his announcing that we'll be spending $6 billion in Iraq next year and there will be 16,000 embassy employees, here's another intriguing excerpt:
Jeffrey also discussed U.S. military sales to Iraq.
“We have about $8 billion, give or take some, of active (foreign military sales) cases with Iraq.
“That’s not counting the new one that just came out for the F-16s (warplanes). That will send it up by a number of additional billions of dollars,” Jeffrey said.
“This is one of the biggest programs in the world.”
“We have a large number of trainers and people from the defense contracts that are doing the equipping and training of the Iraqis throughout the country,” he said.
We must make sure the revenues to our defense companies continue to pour in, war or no war.
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