Earlier this year
800 ISIS rag-tag terrorists armed with Ak-47s, some RPGs, and some "Technicals" (pickup trucks THEY modified by adding a machine gun mount) attacked TWO DIVISIONS (
30,000 troops armed with BILLIONS of dollars worth of American hardware and trained by Americans) of the Iraqi army at Mosul (used to be called Nineveh). The Iraqi "soldiers" threw down their weapons and fled. THAT is where most of the
armaments ISIS now has came from. The equipment includes:
the Iraqi army is awash in about $15 billion in U.S. gear transferred since 2005, including IA-407 helicopters, M-1 Abrams tanks, C-130 fixed-wing aircraft and 300 hellfire missiles, Pentagon officials say.
and millions of rounds of ammo. I doubt that they gave a complete list. ISIS probably now has night vision equipment for both personnel and vehicles. When we put boots on the ground in Iraq again we will be fighting our own equipment!
There is ONLY ONE person responsible for this debacle, and it isn't John McCain, as gullible as he is. Arming "rebels" to fight against Syria was a STUPID idea, unless your game plan was to actually support the jihadist.
