Iraq Buys F-16s…or Not
The Stars and Stripes notes the inadvertent release of a draft announcement that Iraq had agreed to purchase 18 F-16s, something it has wanted for years. As it turns out, the Iraqi government has not yet approved the purchase, making the release premature.
F-16s aren’t the only things Iraq wants.
“They’d like F-16s and, you know, Polaris submarines and aircraft carriers and a whole bunch of other things,” then-Lt. Gen. David Petraeus told reporters in 2005.