Cluster Bomb Design Agreement

Meteor Blades explains the absurdity of the US not participating in the current cluster bomb design ban. It was approved yesterday by over 100 nations, excluding the big three - the US, China, and Russia. This is obviously more about companies making the bombs and their profit, than it is about these bombs being a necessary effective weapon to kill a small number of targets instead of the countless civilians killed or maimed when the bomblets explode. And that's only if they work in the manner they're supposed to.

But failure rates are immense. For instance, when Israel and Hezbollah went to war in southern Lebanon two years ago, as many as 40 percent of the bomblets failed. Perhaps a million of these lethal explosives remained scattered around after the fighting stopped. When they do explode, chances are close to 50-50 that they will kill a child aged 5 to 15.

Senator Obama clearly needs to vocally get behind the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act.

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