Re: Pat Tillman died for the criminal Bu$h Mob's Lies !

[MLenoch]

>From: "=> Vox Populi ©" Vox Populi ©" >

Friends of Pat are aware of what you said. Be sure to look over your shoulder.
It is coming.

[Matt Wiser]

CBUs are not illegal. Until there is some sort of treaty, and that ain't likely
IMHO, they are legal means of inflicting damage on the enemy-they are very
good at making SAM sites, artillery batteries, tank parks, parked aircraft
and helos, AAA and radar sites, and exposed enemy personnel go away. The
problem in Iraq was not the weapon, it was the bad guys putting artillery
and AAA weapons in civilian areas, and those targets had to be suppressed.
Now, could the dud rate of bomblets be reduced? Yes, but it will never be
lower than 5%. SFW had no such problems-see the moving heat source of a vehicle-submunitions
fire, and tank/BMP/SP Arty goes away. Permanently. Same thing with SADARM.







Darwin > wrote:
>On Sat, 01 May 2004 12:16:02 -0700, Bill Bonde
>( ''Stop this farce!''
>''Which one?'' ) > wrote:
>
>> - DefaultUser wrote:
>
>[..]
>>> Then they dropped illegal cluster bombs that
>left bomblets
>>> the same color as the air dropped food packets.
>>>
>> There is nothing illegal about cluster bombs.
>
>You are a proven liar. :P
>
>Allied use of cluster bombs illegal, minister
>admits
>By: Paul Waugh
>Independent, The
>
>The Government admitted during the war on Iraq
>that the use of cluster
>bombs against civilian targets would "not be
>legal", a letter obtained by
>The Independent has revealed.
>
>Anti-landmine charities claimed last night that
>the letter by Adam Ingram,
>the Armed Forces minister, proved that the Ministry
>of Defence had broken
>international law by using the munitions in
>towns and cities.
>
>Mr Ingram admitted for the first time yesterday
>that cluster bombs were
>dropped on "built-up areas" in Iraq in an attempt
>to protect British
>servicemen. After initially denying the charge
>in an interview with the
>BBC, the minister said the unguided weapons,
>which release hundreds of
>bomblets, were used "in specific circumstances
>where there is a threat to
>our troops".
>
>But on 25 March, five days after the conflict
>began, Mr Ingram responded
>on behalf of Tony Blair to the Diana, Princess
>of Wales Memorial Fund to
>set out the Government's position on the weapons.
>
>Mr Ingram stressed that the British armed forces
>strove to act in
>accordance with the Geneva Conventions. "It
>is clear that when we apply
>these principles there will be occasions when
>the use of cluster bombs
>against certain targets would not be legal,"
>he wrote. "There will be
>occasions when the use of other munitions would
>be legal but the use of
>cluster bombs would not."
>
>Richard Lloyd, director of the charity Landmine
>Action, said the letter,
>with yesterday's admission, proved the Geneva
>Conventions were knowingly
>breached. "Mr Ingram has admitted the Government
>acted outside the law,"
>he said.
>
>
>Original Link:
>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=410740
>
>
>
>--
>-darwin-
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