Well, here we are again --- US plans $2.3B arms sale to Iraq. I don't know that an occupied country can buy arms from the occupier. This must be another part of the market economy doctrine that we don't know much about.

There is something wrong with this picture - You have over 300,000 soldiers and hired guns occupying Iraq and now have to sell them arms so, "they can take over policing their nation". Why not take their oil then also.