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McClatchy:

WASHINGTON — The United States is currently the world biggest weapons supplier — holding 30 per cent of the market — but the Obama administration has begun modifying export control regulations in hopes of enlarging the U.S. market share, according to U.S. officials.

President Barack Obama already has taken the first steps by tucking new language into the Iran sanctions bill signed in early July. His aides are now compiling the "munitions list," which regulates the sale of military items.

The administration's stated reason for the changes is to simplify the sale of weapons to U.S. allies, but potential spinoffs include generating business for the U.S. defense industry, creating jobs and contributing to Obama's drive to double U.S. exports by 2015.

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Comments

[clearwaterclearmind]

i'l bet that nobel peace medal shines real bright in the sun.

[eahce]

Obomba ought to stick it where the sun doesn't shine.

[RetiredArmy04]

The rest of the world he wants to have guns. Lol, why doesn't he want the average US citizen to own one?

[solidtartan]

We are not worthy

[Phillip Howard]

We belong in afganistan ,that is where the terroist are/were based. Its the war in Iraq that is wrong. Also has anyone checked to see how much gold was liberated from Fort Knox. Because we need a tally of everthing that is missing from america under the Bush Adminastration

[solidtartan]

ha ha..med time

[audadvnc]

This is great news! I'm about to move into one of those inner city neighborhoods and need all the firepower I can get to keep them crackheads at bay. Now I won't even need approval to sell guns to my white neighbors - America rocks, dude!!!

[Helzapoppin]

This administration is getting dumber by the minute

[R U Sirius]

Wrong on this one, Mr. President. The world is already bristling with enough arms.

[TheIndependenceParty]

What a pathetic epitaph for our once great nation, ... that the final goods we made at the end were weapons we sold to the world.

How did the 60's song go? "What the world needs now, is guns, ... more guns, ... "

[Followtherabbit]

Uh we need the money and jobs.We kind of shipped most of our industry and technology to slave wage states so theres not much left.Thank a republican and Dino.

[Uggg]

Man I thought the Rethugs were warmongers but this guy has caught up with the last one

[ray christl]

I was voting for the Obama Deception,and unless Gov. Gary Johnson gets the REPS nod it's Green Party,both sides are sold-out .

[laborgrunt]

Turns out change you can believe= the Compassionate conservatism 2008. In other words, its a fallacy, a lie, about as real as a unicorn.

[audadvnc]

'Fraid so. He fooled us all.

[scorpioman]

face it....the guy is a warmonger

[VeroucaSalt]

I have to say, there are a few things Obama does that I very much disagree with, and this is definitely one of them.

I like they guy, and for the most part I support him and his actions, but this activity is.... let's say "questionable" at best.

[JackTheSkipper]

The private industry is not creating job. Where else do you think you can turn? The only thing anyone wants from us is our military hardware. Our cars can't compete with their fuel efficient cars. We no longer make stuff here in this country anymore. O is doing what's logical. Don't blame him.

[RetiredArmy04]

Lol oh no never blame the anointed one

[mrJJ]

Machiavelli's The Prince:

"Choosing good ministers is vital, because a ruler shows his intelligence in his choice of the men around him. If a man cannot have good ideas himself, he must be smart enough to distinguish his minister's good ideas from his bad ones."

"He should listen carefully, but make his own decisions and stick to them. A prince who is not wise can never get good counsel, unless he puts himself completely in the hands of a wise man; but such a man will soon take over his state."

[audadvnc]

Both Harvard and Washington have peculiar ideas of what constitutes intelligence versus wisdom. It appears our President has the former in spades, but is serious lacking in the other.

[Hassan shoja]

He is just another former antiwar candidate who went to the dark side.

[ray christl]

Total SETH worship of war/empire,and keeps Michele Leonhart at BUSH-DEA to swarm on med-pot selective prosecution...this is a ruse,and i'm the fool. Applaud his hire of women to power. All sold-out ? Not Shirley Sherrod !