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Pat Tillman died for the criminal Bu$h Mob's Lies !
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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/...p?story=410740 -- -darwin- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Posted via www.My-Newsgroups.com - web to news gateway for usenet access! |
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