US official: Push to ban cluster bombs would hurt US peacekeeping work

Source: Reuters

A senior US official said Wednesday that a proposed treaty banning cluster bombs would hurt world security and endanger US military cooperation on humanitarian work with countries that sign the accord.

Stephen Mull, an assistant secretary of state, briefed reporters at the State Department to explain why the United States was not attending a gathering in Ireland of representatives of more than 100 nations working on a treaty to ban the bombs blamed for killing or maiming civilians as their mini-bombs explode months or years after they are dropped.

A critic of the US position, Marc Garlasco, senior military analyst for Human Rights Watch, said in a telephone interview from Dublin that it was outrageous for Mull to link US military humanitarian work with the United States' "failed policy on cluster munitions."

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:wtf:

Would stop their parents from wanting Peace

You can't keep the peace unless you are free to use weapons of mass destruction. At least, not according to our own government. :eyes:

so if they sign the accord, no humanitarian aid for them!

if we can't use cluster bombs then we can't help people...(picks up life-saving medicines and goes home)

If we can't bomb you first, how can we aid you later?

Truly bizarre.

There is no shortage of utter ignorance in this world. I think I'll cry now....

This guy is insane. :crazy:

That makes so much sense... NOT!


:wtf:

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

irony meter shattering into a million small pieces.x(

a guy that worked for the company that creates cluster bombs....Nothing to see here folks ...move along....

That is what I have to say about child-killers like Mull.

these bush appointees all need to be fired on day one. I hope we've got the staff picked out already, or are already working on hire-fire lists.

This nation has far too many deeply stupid people.

None of them in Christian Peacemaker Teams use cluster bombs. Maybe they're going about it all wrong?

are paying for that moron to go around saying such things.

So it wouldn't really change anything anyway.

Tom Lehrer was right. Irony IS dead.