We are now near the end of Bush's Third Term, or Obama's Third Year, depending on how you care to phrase it. The list of horrors perpetrated by Obama fills many pages. The latest is one of the more outrageous: He wants to overturn the ban on cluster bombs!

From:

http://news.antiwar.com/2011/11/10/us-moves-to-overturn-ban-on-cluster-bombs/

and

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/uk-backs-bid-to-overturn-ban-on-cluster-bombs-6259139.html

The Convention on Cluster Munitions prohibits cluster munitions, requires the destruction of stockpiles within eight years, and has been signed by 111 countries, while the U.S. has steadfastly refused to sign it. In a proposal that meant to neuter the convention, Washington now is pushing to permit the use of cluster bombs as long as they were manufactured after 1980 and had a failure rate of less than one per cent.

The Convention began to take effect in June 2010, just after a U.S.cluster bomb killed 35 women and children in Yemen, with the Pentagon stubbornly refusing to admit to the wrongdoing despite damning evidence compiled by Amnesty International, which was later corroborated by classified diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.

Cluster bombs are highly imprecise weapons that work by dispersing hundreds of smaller submunitions, often referred to as bomblets or grenades. Often, the bomblets do not initially explode, only to explode later with civilians about.

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The picture of a seriously wounded child accompanying the above article says it all. The Democrats are not lesser evil; they are just as evil. One has to be profoundly evil to promote cluster bombs, and all the rest of the horrifying arsenal of the US military, all to maximize the profits of the capitalist class, whom the Democrats and Republicans serve. If you are outraged, then you must vote Peace & Freedom or Green. See

http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/

and

http://www.cagreens.org/