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Originally posted by Barry the Sprout:
Ronn, not attacking you here just pointing out a few things.
One Cluster Bomb will cover an area the size of 12 football fields with bomblets.
20% of the bomblets do not go off.
People are still claiming that this war does not target civilians yet even yourself you have to admit that they are dropping food and bombs on the same place. By having to drop the leaflets (they are also doing radio broadcasts - the majority of Afgans being illiterate) they are admitting that the same people are getting bombed as who they are trying to get food aid to. So has the idea of this not being a war on civilians gone totally out of the window? The use of the cluster bombs seems to prove so. Also another interesting point about food packages:
In the Gulf War 7 people were killed by food packages that were useless to them anyway. The largely Muslim population was given pork... great...
Some even say the estimates of unexploded bomblets is as high as 30%, but it still doesn't mean they are "targeting" civilians. Knowing civilians can be casualties and
intentionally doing something for the express goal of killing civilians is different.
Not all the unexploded bomblets are yellow, some are red, which seems to be a better color for the representation of danger. The food packets are now blue.
Cluster bombs and food packs are not dropped in the exact same "pinpoint" spots. If they were, the food packets would be destroyed, and there would be no confusion.
I don't think anyone actually died from eating pork, but I get your point [img]smile.gif[/img]
I've read nothing positive about the use of cluster bombs through my research on the internet and don't claim they are a good thing, but they are a weapon of war.