America allows Iran to buy its extra weapons. Iran may be returning them to American soldiers in the near future. Well just the ammunition actually.

The U.S. military has sold forbidden equipment at least a half-dozen times to middlemen for countries — including Iran and China — who exploited security flaws in the Defense Department's surplus auctions. The sales include fighter jet parts and missile components.

In that instance, a Pakistani arms broker convicted of exporting U.S. missile parts to Iran resumed business after his release from prison. He purchased Chinook helicopter engine parts for Iran from a U.S. company that had bought them in a Pentagon surplus sale. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, speaking on condition of anonymity, say those parts made it to Iran.

The surplus sales can operate like a supermarket for arms dealers.

"Right Item, Right Time, Right Place, Right Price, Every Time. Best Value Solutions for America's Warfighters," the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service says on its website, calling itself "the place to obtain original U.S. Government surplus property."

Have you ever seen the old gunfighter movies where the good guy says he is unarmed and the bad guy gives him a gun to make it "fair"? You ever notice that the bad guy always gets shot to death?

I wonder if it makes any difference to the families of fallen Americans it that their loved ones were killed with weapons purchased from America? It would certainly make me angry.