China Arming Insurgents and Iraqi Forces
July 27th, 2007 | by Sqotty |The Washington Times reports that China is playing both ends of the field when it comes to arming Iraq. They have just cut a deal to supply $100 million dollars worth of assault rifles to the Iraqi police.
Recent intelligence reports also indicate that China has been supplying weapons to “insurgents” (their word, not mine) in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Knowing that China is arming your enemies, would you really want to cut a deal with them to buy weapons from China? How can you be sure that the weapons they will provide will in fact be reliable? Me, I wouldn’t do it as I couldn’t just a country that is arming my enemies to supply me with weapons.
One Bush administration official called the deal “extremely foolish.”
“Buying weapons from China will accelerate the alienation of America,” the official said. “Iraq purchasing PLA weapons along with the emerging PRC oil deal will contribute mightily to end game Iraq for the United States.” The PLA is the acronym for China’s military.
The official said the Iraqi government needs to better understand that the U.S. military is fighting and dying to give their nation the opportunity for a free and open society and government. “It is not the PLA, in fact the PLA is arming Iranians to kill Iraqis and Americans,” the official said.
Disclosure of the Iraqi government arms deal with China comes as a U.S. military spokesman this week confirmed the flow of Chinese shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to insurgents, first reported in this paper June 5.
The unidentified “official” has a valid point. If our troops are fighting and dying to establish a free society in Iraq, and the American people are being asked to put up the bucks, then why is the government of Iraq cutting arms and oil deals with a communist dicatatorship? Especially one that is simultaneously arming Iraq’s enemies?
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