UnaShAmed

[Nuclear Unicorn]

...and we should be ashamed:

MAG has welcomed today's announcement that the international treaty banning the use of cluster munitions has been ratified.

The news will have even more resonance for people in Lebanon, Lao PDR and Iraq, where the lethal threat from unexploded cluster munitions continues to affect daily life in countless communities.

MAG has been working in many of these communities for more than a decade, clearing deadly cluster bombs as well as other dangerous remnants of conflict that threaten people's safety and prevent their development for years after war has ended.

As the United Nations confirmed in New York that 30 countries have now successfully ratified the terms of the ban, drafted by the Convention on Cluster Munitions , MAG's teams in southern Lebanon and throughout Lao PDR were at work, working with local communities to reduce and remove the threat from these abandoned weapons.

http://alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/220485/126640479885.htm

They're as bad as landmines, maiming and crippling people years after the conflict has ended.

Guess who ISN'T a signatory and uses these weapons regularly.

[G_j]

1. par for the course

:mad:

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. I don't know what is more shameful...

...that the US has decided to continue using these horrible weapons or that so few people seem to care.