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Originally Posted by Oystein
"(CNN) -- More than 100 nations agreed Wednesday on a treaty that would immediately ban all cluster bombs."
"Some of the world's top producers, users and stockpilers of cluster munitions are absent from the conference, including the U.S., Israel, China, Russia, India and Pakistan, according to Human Rights Watch."
Interesting that the countries mentioned here are all in some kind of a dispute, always.
Read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe...omb/index.html |
Why not post it all?
"Other countries -- like the United Kingdom, Denmark, France and Japan -- had sought exceptions for certain cluster munitions within their arsenals, Human Rights Watch said."
Gee looks like they are against them unless it's the ones they use... lol
So it's not like there was anyone in full support of it and at least the US is building safer cluster bombs, that un-arm if they don't hit a target. Take this one for example..
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ua3nLmE7Kow