The Obama Administration Has Made America The World's Largest Arms Dealer

United States President Barack Obama with the Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Raadhuset Main Hall at Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway on 10 December 2009. Image has been cropped from original. The diploma reads (in English): "The Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting has, in accordance with the terms of the will set up by Alfred Nobel on the 27th of November 1895, awarded Barack H. Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. Wikipedia

Zero Hedge: An Inconvenient Truth: How The Obama Administration Became Earth's Largest Arms Dealer

With the Obama presidency in its final year, there is one central element of his foreign policy that has received little attention – the dramatic acceleration of lethal weapons exports by the U.S. military and defense contractors. As Ammo.com details, the Obama administration has approved more lethal weapon sales to more foreign countries than any U.S. administration since World War II. Many billions more than G.W. Bush's administration, in fact. And some of these sales will likely result in unintended consequences i.e. "blowback" – especially as more than 60 percent of them have gone to the Middle East and Persian Gulf.

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WNU Editor: From Nobel Peace Prize recipient to .... helping make America the world's largest Arms dealer. The irony of it all.

There is a graphic at the above link that details how the Obama administration became the world's largest arms dealer .... it is a must see.