under bush the seventeen year war on terror began and weapons sales increased as they did under obama c.e.o. lester crown and his chicago family played a critical role as clear long patrons and fundraiser for obama's rise to power and general dynamics was handsomely rewarded with obama brokered contracts with israel then general dynamics m.k. eighty four bombs. appeared in israel's fifty days of gaza and twenty fourteen which left two thousand palestinians killed raytheon's laser guided paveway bombs also appeared as a g.b.u. twenty eight bombs bowing small diameter bombs blockade bar and f. sixteen more planes and boeing's apache helicopters equipped with northrop grumman longbow missiles while israel's opponents hamas proudly showed off a tank that turned out to be just a car. away. i said when general dynamics abrams tanks appeared in tahrir square as the egyptian military carried out the deadliest massacre of peaceful protesters anywhere since china's massacre in tiananmen square in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine and it's not just us companies making international sales the taxpayer too