http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...4-2553148.html

America’s refusal to give Baghdad’s security forces sufficient guns and equipment has cost a great number of lives, the Iraqi Prime Minister said yesterday

Nouri al-Maliki said the insurgency had been bloodier and prolonged because Washington had refused to part with equipment. If it released the necessary arms, US forces could “dramatically" cut their numbers in three to six months, he told The Times.

Asked how long Iraq would require US troops, Mr al-Maliki said: “If we succeed in implementing the agreement between us to speed up the equipping and providing weapons to our military forces, I think that within three to six months our need for American troops will dramatically go down. That is on condition that there are real, strong efforts to support our military forces and equipping and arming them.”

I think there is a very realistic possibility over the next 6 months that the US government is going to arm the Iraqi army and police forces with tons of modern weaponry and equipment and eventually those weapons will be used to kill American soldiers.