Iraq will buy US weapons

Iraq has a shopping list of US weapons in hand. The goal is to buy 96 F-16s through 2020. Also, so far, the U.S. Congress has been notified of potential arms sales to Iraq totaling nearly $9 billion, including the M1A1 tank by General Dynamics Corp, light armored vehicles from various contractors, armed reconnaissance helicopters from either Boeing Co or Textron Inc , and Lockheed's C-130J cargo aircraft.

This is another reason for the war in Iraq and to keep friendly regimes in the Middle East in general: oil revenues are then invested back in to the US/West through weapons purchases, weapons which are used in turn to maintain those authoritarian regimes in place.