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Mark--why don't you take a tour through Jane's Defense and look at "Cluster bombs".
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Love to Dick. Will you hold my hand?
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You constantly go for "Moral Equivalence"
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Eh? If that means what I THINK it means everyone here is at it, not least (by any means) your good self.
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Cluster bombs are bombs--not mine laying devices.
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I never said they were mines or mine-laying devices. I had in mind such statements as the following:
'More than 130,000 Israeli anti-personal (AP) and anti-tank (AT) mines, per UN figures, are polluting South Lebanon.
Tens of thousands of unexploded ordnance UXO (bomblets, cluster bombs, missiles, etc.)
From May 2000 until December 2001, Israel submitted maps for less than 70,000 mines areas of the former occupied land.
From May 2000 until December 2001, 21 people died and 158 were maimed or severely injured by Israeli mines and UXO.
Seventy percent of the casualties of Israeli mines in South Lebanon are children (under 16-year-old).
There are more than 3 Israeli mines / UXO's per child in South Lebanon.
Israel is not a signatory of the Ottawa Treaty, which prohibits the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of AP mines.'
the wikipedia mentions mines as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Is...banon_conflict
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Nothing ever works a hundred percent.
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Seems to me there a big difference between ordinance that merely fails to work 100% and ordinance that tends to mostly kill children (or teens).
BTW Dick, I already apologised to Seree for misreading her post (if that is in fact what I did). I am more than happy to apologise for my own stupidities or incidences of jumping the gun (or jumping ugly). Can't recall you ever doing the same (though I may be wrong; this thread is WAY too long to check).