Posted on 09/03/2014 10:06:12 AM PDT by Starman417
I thought it might be useful to add up what Obama has done with weapons in his foreign policy. Here's an accounting of how he's handled weapons:
Fast and Furious
Obama sent 2000 automatic weapons to Mexican drug cartels
Libya
Eager to show he is a tough guy, Obama toppled Moammar Gaddafi without seeking Congress's approval. He was pompously proud of his refusal to put boots on the ground. Consequently, all sorts of weapons fell into the hands of Al Qaeda-linked groups, including:
20,000 surface to air missiles
Obama was happy to send weapons to the Libyan rebels:
[...] - The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year [2012] , but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States officials and foreign diplomats.… the Obama administration clearly was worried about the consequences of its hidden hand in helping arm Libyan militants, concerns that have not previously been reported. The weapons and money from Qatar strengthened militant groups in Libya, allowing them to become a destabilizing force since the fall of the Qaddafi government.
[...] The United States, which had only small numbers of C.I.A. officers in Libya during the tumult of the rebellion, provided little oversight of the arms shipments. Within weeks of endorsing Qatar’s plan to send weapons there in spring 2011, the White House began receiving reports that they were going to Islamic militant groups. They were “more antidemocratic, more hard-line, closer to an extreme version of Islam” than the main rebel alliance in Libya, said a former Defense Department official.
Also heading into the arms of Al Qaeda in Mali were RPG's, machine guns, night vision goggles and grenades.
Since the beginning of last year's insurgency against longtime Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, weapons have streamed out of Libya, looted from depots and sold on the black market. Difficult to track and impossible to quantify, they move in many directions.Smugglers from Zintan in the northwest move south with ease into the remote regions straddling Chad and Niger, selling munitions to militants in the Sahel region south of the Sahara desert. Israeli officials say that weapons have flowed into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, pouring out from Egypt through tunnels. The North African-based Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, through long-established links to drug dealers and gunrunners, reportedly acquired Libyan arms as early as March 2011.
The Obama administration had little interest in weapons other than the MANPADS:
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If you condemn thievery you condemn Mohammed.
If you condemn rape you condemn Mohammed.
If you condemn pedophilia you condemn Mohammed.
If you condemn terrorism you condemn Mohammed.
If you condemn Mohammed you condemn Islam.
Fomented islamic insurgency in secular Syria and started training and arming Syrian Islamic rebels.
See: training and arming Islamic rebels in Syria.
Most likely training was provided to Al Baghdadi.
Smuggling weapons to Al Qeada via Benghazi, smuggling weapons to ISIS through Syria, smuggling weapons to the Mexican drug cartels via the BATF....
In liberal parlance, Zippy is called ‘the’ “weapons Creep”.
I think if you check that the weapons sent to Mexico were in fact Semi-Automatic weapons. They were bought at local gun stores by straw purchasers and then flipped to the cartels. Local gun stores cannot sell “AUTOMATIC” weapons to people without a class three license and the buyer being checked by the B.A.T.F. The buyer has to also have a class three stamo for each “Automatic” weapon.
I agree with the purpose of the post but WE must be as accurate as the MSM is inaccurate.
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