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To: cowboyusa
“Joe Biden should not be dragging us further toward World War III by sending cluster munitions to Ukraine... These unexploded cluster munitions will be killing and maiming innocent Ukrainian men, women, and children for decades to come, long after the war—we pray—has ended,” Trump said

If cluster munitions are so evil, why do we have them in our stockpile?

Its ironic that the Obama Administration moved to retire cluster weapons while Trump stopped their destruction.

an Obama-era policy sought to gradually retire all U.S. cluster weapons with a dud-rate above 1%, leading to many such weapons being decommissioned or converted to other purposes, a move Biden expressed support for in 2006. However, this policy was canceled by the Trump administration.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a44465526/why-is-the-us-sending-ukraine-cluster-munitions/

n May 2008, then-Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Stephen Mull stated that the U.S. military relies upon cluster munitions as an important part of their war strategy.[137] Mull emphasized that "U.S. forces simply cannot fight by design or by doctrine without holding out at least the possibility of using cluster munitions."

9 posted on 07/11/2023 5:12:04 PM PDT by tlozo ( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: tlozo

PT understands that this War is just useless distraction at this point, both sides need to come to the tabel.


10 posted on 07/11/2023 5:13:39 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! )
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To: tlozo
If cluster munitions are so evil, why do we have them in our stockpile?
15 posted on 07/11/2023 5:23:54 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: tlozo
If cluster munitions are so evil, why do we have them in our stockpile?

Ukraine has been a basket case since 2014, why do you continue to defend this failed state?

16 posted on 07/11/2023 5:25:24 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: tlozo

We have these evil weapons in our stockpile because we have evil men in the MIC making the decisions to use them. NEVER assume just because it’s a policy from DC that it can’t be evil.


24 posted on 07/11/2023 5:46:58 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: tlozo

“If cluster munitions are so evil, why do we have them in our stockpile? “

Because they work.

Especially the BIG ones...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-216-Y6Cac


32 posted on 07/11/2023 6:18:37 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: tlozo

Because America might need cluster bombs for its own defense someday, as a next to last resort. I’m sure Trump never intended them to be used to enforce a eurotrash/neocon/NWO foreign policy.


41 posted on 07/12/2023 2:12:16 AM PDT by Big Brother Go to Hell
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To: tlozo

We have them because they work,they were used in Vietnam,we should not be providing anything for Ukraine to cover up for Traitor Joe Biden and his corrupt family


44 posted on 07/12/2023 5:05:00 AM PDT by ballplayer
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