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Skwmom

(12,685 posts)
Sun Mar 6, 2016, 10:01 PM Mar 2016

Says the woman who supports the selling of millions of weapons...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dieter-holger/hillary-clinton-is-pro-gu_b_8736298.html

While touting her gun control record and lambasting rival Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' firearm policy, Hillary Clinton keeps under wraps her heavy-handed involvement in the arms trade during her time as America's top diplomat. Sanders, although never Secretary of State, hasn't advocated for major arms deals between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, or any other warmongering country for that matter.

According to an investigation by journalists David Sirota and Andrew Perez of the International Business Times, Clinton not only rubber-stamped major weapon deals with 20 countries that donated to her and her husband's philanthropic arm, the Clinton Foundation, but also approved nearly double the amount of arms sales to those same 20 countries as the State Department of George W. Bush's second term.

The investigation, which came out in May of this year, caused chatter online, but didn't result in Clinton facing any questions about her arms dealing record in the first two Democratic debates. It's important now, especially as we discuss mass violence at home, to ask Clinton if she'll pursue a reduction of firearms not only domestically but internationally.

What a piece of work.
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Says the woman who supports the selling of millions of weapons... (Original Post) Skwmom Mar 2016 OP
Selling weapons to oppressive foreign gov'ts don't count, apparently Hydra Mar 2016 #1

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
1. Selling weapons to oppressive foreign gov'ts don't count, apparently
Sun Mar 6, 2016, 10:16 PM
Mar 2016

It's only in the case of law abiding citizens that such weapons would be misused...

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