Iraq’s government is studying a request from some local insurgent leaders to supply them with weapons so they can turn on the heavily armed foreign fighters who were once their allies, according to two Iraqi lawmakers.
Leaders claiming to represent about 11 insurgent groups asked for weapons to fight foreign al-Qaeda elements in Iraq, said Haider al-Ibadi, a Shiite lawmaker and member of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Dawa Party.
So let’s get this straight. We’re in Iraq defending the Iraqi people from insurgents, while the Iraqi government gives weapons to those insurgents, so that everybody can attack al Qaeda, who wouldn’t have been in Iraq in the first place had we not invaded.
Gotcha.