[lbo-talk] Iraq buys military hardware from Russia

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 17:26:39 PDT 2012


Doug Henwood


> I'm so confused. I thought part of the point of the "liberation" was for them to be a captive buyer of US hardware.

French, Chinese, and Russian companies got big gobs of their oil too. It's just not working out as planned.

^^^^^ CB: Also, Bush was probably flying by the seat of his pants/shooting from the hip a lot. Probably, it was more about winning re-election.



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