Look what we sold to Iraq. If ISIS were not there, the sale would - TopicsExpress



          

Look what we sold to Iraq. If ISIS were not there, the sale would have been a lot harder. The Military Industrial Complex at work? Eisenhower would probably think so. 1,000 M1151A1 up-armored Humvees, outfitted with M2 .50-caliber machine guns and MK-19 40 mm grenade launchers 175 M1A1 Abrams main BATTLE TANKS 15 M88A2 Hercules tank recovery vehicles (used to salvage damaged tanks) 55,000 rounds of 120 mm ammunition for the tanks 500 Hellfire missiles, worth $82 million to Lockheed Martin 12 Bell 412 EP helicopters, worth $300 million to Textron 50 of BAEs M1135 Stryker armored reconnaissance vehicles (a $900 million deal) 24 AH-64E Apache Longbow attack helicopters, plus hundreds more Hellfires -- altogether worth an estimated $6.2 billion to Boeing
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 18:47:49 +0000

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