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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
The are colored brightly to make them easy to identify due to UN land mine treaties. This way, in theory, they aren't set off accidentally by innocents.
The fact that the food packets are the same color is a horrible coincidence that I'm sure has cost someone their rank or their job! But who would have thought we'd be dropping cluster bombs and food packets on the same areas of the same country at the same time 
We are dropping leaflets in the appropriate languages describing the difference between the two in shape and effect. The color of the food packets is also being changed.
I heard someone on a call in news showing saying this was done on purpose to kill Taliban soldiers looking for food. How ludicrous! We would receive no benefit from purposely killing civilians, and the political ramifications would be devastating to the coalition. This caller was pro-war, but for all the wrong reasons.
Oh for ■■■■'s sake!
You're telling me the bombs and the food packages are the same colour ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!
And you're just calling this a horrible coincidence?
This is foul.
Why on EARTH is America using CLUSTER BOMBS in the first place?!!! They are totally inappropriate given the civilian popluation - ■■■■■■■ landmine type weapons AGAIN - WILL THE DAMN HUMAN RACE NEVER LEARN??!!
Stop using cluser bombs - or repackage the food. Preferably both!
Better yet, stop bombing so convoy aid (far more nutritious effective than these ridiculous junk food airline meals - giving peanut butter and jelly to starving people - who ARE the people who thought this one up, for god's sake, get REAL!!! ) can get to where it needs to go. Today I have read yet more descriptions of the starving Afghanis, some of whom are now enduring flood conditions, from British journalists who are there looking on. So they aren't just starving, they're cold, soaking wet and starving.
Thousands are dying from starvation and cold. It is beginning to get really cold there now. Thousands and thousands more will die..... Must be just great - bombs above, no food, and your arse is freezing to death. Not just a figure of speech here, I'm talking literally.