Dozens of countries contaminated by explosives

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More than 90 countries or disputed territories have been contaminated by unexploded weapons, and more than 50 by anti-vehicle mines, according to the first global survey of their impact on civilians, aid workers and peacekeepers, published yesterday.

The report is published by Landmine Action, an independent British campaigning group, to coincide with a meeting of the UN's Conventional Weapons Convention in Geneva to discuss ways to control the use of anti-vehicle mines and cluster bombs.

"Explosive remnants of war are costing civilian lives and livelihoods in 90 countries, many of them the world's poorest" says Richard Lloyd, director of Landmine Action. He adds: "Anti-tank rable populations even weaker."

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/03/08/2003245403

Mines are the American Republican Christian gifts to the children of the world.

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1. not just republican christian gifts to the world

Clinton never aknowledged Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines' Nobel Prize 1997

the blame for this unnatural and evil mess can't be laid simply in the red state basket

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3. Bush Administration Abandons Landmine Ban

The Bush Administration’s reversal of a ten-year policy to eliminate all antipersonnel landmines puts the United States in near total isolation in the global effort to ban mines, Human Rights Watch said today. Today the Pentagon announces the outcome of its two and one-half year review of U.S. policy on all landmines.

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/02/27/usint7684.htm


http://www.icbl.org/

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2. Not one mention of Depleted Uranium. (n/t)

Flem.

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4. DU is poisoning americans in two ways:

our troops who have used it in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. are coming home poisoned and passing it on to SOs and children born to them.

americans who work in the war industries using DU are poisoned and bring it home daily to their families.

just because you can't see or smell it doesn't mean its not there.

try finding the stats on disabled babies born to these people - a tough job.