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US rejects ban on cluster bombs
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| 2/24/07
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Posted on 02/24/2007 9:07:32 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
"We ... take the position that these munitions do have a place and a use in military inventories, given the right technology as well as the proper rules of engagement,"Yep, and if other countries want to deny themselves these weapons, they can feel free to.
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posted on
02/24/2007 9:11:30 PM PST
by
GATOR NAVY
(Naming CVNs after congressmen and mediocre presidents burns my butt)
To: NormsRevenge
So....are they actually wanting us to come up with safer bombs???? Has anybody stopped to think how dumb this makes them????
To: NormsRevenge
A recent report by Handicap International claimed that 98 percent of casualties from cluster munitions are non-combatants. I have to seriously call BS on that one. We drop cluster bombs on enemies out in the open, and it kills a LOT of them.
To: NormsRevenge
Rockeye, APAM, and DPICM. When you care enough to send the very best...
Unless of course you have FAE and Napalm!
To: antiRepublicrat
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posted on
02/24/2007 9:18:05 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: NormsRevenge
Yet another example of the Bush being a globalist /s.
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posted on
02/24/2007 9:27:47 PM PST
by
pissant
(http://www.gohunter08.com/)
To: NormsRevenge
Yet another example of the Bush being a globalist /s.
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posted on
02/24/2007 9:27:48 PM PST
by
pissant
(http://www.gohunter08.com/)
To: NormsRevenge
When they hold an international conference to eliminate the use of human suicide bomb vests, and all the Arab countries show up and agree to it and enforce it on their own populations, then I'll take this kind of thing seriously. Until then, forget it, F them. This is just trying to deny decent folks the ability to successfully defend themselves with effective weapons against the worst form of human scum.
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posted on
02/24/2007 10:02:31 PM PST
by
omnivore
To: antiRepublicrat; rlmorel
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posted on
02/24/2007 10:11:29 PM PST
by
endthematrix
(Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.)
To: NormsRevenge
Most of these countries don't even have a military.
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posted on
02/24/2007 10:16:13 PM PST
by
Brimack34
(Rino's need not apply)
To: NormsRevenge
More self-righteous posturing from those overgrown ungrateful teenagers that won't move out of the house and take care of themselves i.e. eurotrash.
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posted on
02/24/2007 10:18:44 PM PST
by
Maynerd
To: NormsRevenge
..."commit themselves to ... conclude by 2008 a legally binding international instrument that will prohibit the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians,"...No problem.
Ours cause "acceptable" harm.
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posted on
02/24/2007 10:20:33 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: NormsRevenge
Next they'll want bullets that won't break the skin.
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posted on
02/24/2007 10:37:34 PM PST
by
CAWats
(People that are easily angered are easily frightened.)
To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
Yes, oldies but goodies: MK-20s CBU 52s, 57s, 58s, 59s ... CBU-89s
To: txroadkill
It makes them about as dumb as the idiots who signed the treaty outlawing war.
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posted on
02/24/2007 11:15:26 PM PST
by
Stonewall Jackson
(Captain, I must protest! I am not a merry man! - Lt. Worf)
To: endthematrix
"Nearly all recorded cluster submunitions casualties are civilian, i.e. 98 percent. Only 124 military and 59 demining casualties have been recorded." I think I saw more than 124 Iraqi dead due to cluster munitions in one day alone in the Gulf War.
To: NormsRevenge
We didn't even go
...while key nations such as Israel and the United States did not take part in the conference.
Notice that the AFP pansies didn't mention China or Russia attending the cumbia party.
To: CAWats
"Next they'll want bullets that won't break the skin. "SHHH! They would do just that!
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posted on
02/25/2007 12:17:31 AM PST
by
endthematrix
(Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.)
To: NormsRevenge
I remember seeing Rummy in a press conference a few years ago in which David Gregory or someone like that asked him why we were using cluster bombs on the enemy in Iraq. His response was, "because we're trying to kill them" or something similar. That's the correct way to deal with this kind of idiocy. We did the right thing in rejecting this stupid idea, but I wish we'd stop with all the pandering.
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posted on
02/25/2007 12:32:22 AM PST
by
Jaysun
(I took one look at her unfashionable eyebrows and thought to myself, "she's literally crazy.")
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