The Vatican?

Equatorial Guinea?

You can't have clusterf*cks without cluster bombs.

Subby, you come up with a plan that doesn't involve using cluster bombs and land mines to prevent north Korea from coming across the DMZ.

Within 12 hours, 1 million troops will cross the border and 12 million civillians will be under siege.

No retaliation can act as a defense because North Korea is now a nuclear power.

Behind closed doors we agreed to sign on the condition that there be an exemotion for the DMZ for both land mines and cluster bombs but no one else would go along becuase they felt it would justify our "imperialism" in South Korea.

Until then, stop beating up on America for extending itself to do the rest of the world's dirty work.

The more the merrier

angryjd: Behind closed doors we agreed to sign on the condition that there be an exemotion for the DMZ for both land mines and cluster bombs but no one else would go along becuase they felt it would justify our "imperialism" in South Korea.

I really don't know what any former emotions have to do with any of this.

Lichtenstein

i feel happy i won't have to worry about cluster bombs when Togo invades us

Bombs kill people?

The hell you say!

I guessed Israel.

/I was right

/do your own GIS for "limbless Afghan kids who can't read English"

Israel? India? China? The US?

Checks article...

Doh! Forgot Russia!

Tabatha Static: /do your own GIS for "limbless Afghan kids who can't read English"

And incase your wonders the "BOMB. FRAG. BLU-97" stand for "BOMB. FRAG. BLowUup-97"

Reggaenomics: angryjd: Behind closed doors we agreed to sign on the condition that there be an exemotion for the DMZ for both land mines and cluster bombs but no one else would go along becuase they felt it would justify our "imperialism" in South Korea.

I really don't know what any former emotions have to do with any of this.

what's love got to do with it?

Of those 111 countries, probably on 10 of them have CB's anyway, so what difference does that make?

Does it really matter that Costa Rica is not going to use them?

ADIDAS247: Of those 111 countries, probably on 10 of them have CB's anyway, so what difference does that make?

Does it really matter that Costa Rica is not going to use them?

Yeah, well, it's called "taking a moral stand." Like unequivocally condemning preemptive strikes unilateral international aggression, enhanced interrogation techniques torture and agreeing to fundamental international law and silly, imaginary schitt like that.

Dallas?

I'm no proponent of cluster bombing civilian areas, as the Israelis did without any regrets in the Lebanon War, but I'd rather hang onto these in our arsenal for now when every other major power has not signed this treaty.

angryjd: Subby, you come up with a plan that doesn't involve using cluster bombs and land mines to prevent north Korea from coming across the DMZ.

It's a use thing though. The DMZ has known land mines in it. Everyone knows it, and everyone keeps out.

If people more openly acknowledged the fact that using cluster bombs is basically LAYING a new mine field with not so great precision from the air, it would be a start. Because that's the problem, when they get used in areas with people living nearby.

People get blowed up long after the fight is over, but even when they don't, fields are put out of use for a while because it's known they're basically minefields that need clearing, which takes time, so you can't grow anything on there yet, and is a big local economic hit, etc.

The suggestion by some at the conference to look into improving the weapons to get them all to explode right away was a good one. Though for obvious reasons I'd assume the countries that use them already are doing this.

Tabatha Static: do your own GIS for "limbless Afghan kids who can't read English"

Yeah that was a PARTICULARLY bad design choice...

I'm guessing Mauritius

Bush version of headline: 111 countries agree to cluster bomb IRAN! Wait...what? BAN? NFW... IRAN DAMNIT... make them change that headline...

/*snickers @ the bashers that are marcing in like ants

Tabatha Static: Yeah, well, it's called "taking a moral stand." Like unequivocally condemning preemptive strikes unilateral international aggression, enhanced interrogation techniques torture and agreeing to fundamental international law and silly, imaginary schitt like that.

I'd like to announce that I personally will never ever nuke a whale. Not like I have any to use or that I'll ever acquire nuclear weapons, but it feels good to say that and I want to take a moral stand.

bongmiester: The Vatican?

Kinky.

/rip harvey

all is fair in love and war. if cluster bombs work against the enemy, fark it.

tgregory: all is fair in love and war. if cluster bombs work against the enemy, fark it.

And all the "collateral damage" that gets thrown into the meat grinder along with it might as well be considered evil as well, so fark it, right?

GoDawgs!: I'd like to announce that I personally will never ever nuke a whale.

There's video from Oregon showing that conventional explosives are enough...

Jamespoon: tgregory: all is fair in love and war. if cluster bombs work against the enemy, fark it.

And all the "collateral damage" that gets thrown into the meat grinder along with it might as well be considered evil as well, so fark it, right?

you can't make an omelet without breaking a few villagers.

or something like that.

tgregory: all is fair in love and war. if cluster bombs work against the enemy, fark it.

...and here come the Jesuits.

Hey let's ban all the stuff we don't even own and wouldn't use if we had them anyway.

angryjd: Subby, you come up with a plan that doesn't involve using cluster bombs and land mines to prevent north Korea from coming across the DMZ.



By now South Korea should be standing on their own. The U.S. is subsidizing their economy by having U.S. forces there to our detriment.

burndtdan: you can't make an omelet without breaking a few villagers.

or something like that.

I can has Lebanese villager pancake?

napjerk: Bombs kill people?

The hell you say!

The problem is that these keep on killing even after a war is over.

itazurakko: Tabatha Static: do your own GIS for "limbless Afghan kids who can't read English"

Yeah that was a PARTICULARLY bad design choice...



Which they fixed.

angryjd : Subby, you come up with a plan that doesn't involve using cluster bombs and land mines to prevent north Korea from coming across the DMZ.

uh.. I'm not the subby, but is this what you were looking for?
Link

specifically designed to replace the use of land mines?

They forgot Poland.

Tabatha Static: Yeah, well, it's called "taking a moral stand."

A "moral stand" and a buck fifty will get you a cup of coffee in the UN cafeteria.

Jamespoon: I can has Lebanese villager pancake?

How about "Flat Fatima?"

Thinking about it, I'm changing my guess to Monaco.

/cluster bombs are waaaaay effective
//problem is when they don't all go boom and the bomblets lie around looking interesting

Hitler?

Oh yeah, he's not a country.

From the headline, I'm going to say San Diego.

/stay classy

angryjd: Subby, you come up with a plan that doesn't involve using cluster bombs and land mines to prevent north Korea from coming across the DMZ.

Within 12 hours, 1 million troops will cross the border and 12 million civillians will be under siege.

If by "under siege" you mean "digging themselves out of the rubble formerly known as Seoul after 20,000 artillery pieces destroy the city", you're right.

North Korea had a trump card to ensure they get first strike long before they got nukes. If shiat ever does hit the fan in the peninsula, Seoul is toast. And there's not much anyone can do about it, no matter how many cluster bombs or landmines you put in the DMZ.

was it china?

Dude, get your own!

I wonder how many of the countries signed the treaty because they don't have cluster bombs.

We don't have them, so we'll sign a treaty that will take them away from you too.

Let me guess. It's a Christian nation...

I'm guessing the countries that actually HAVE them & use them.

no stinkin' shiat.

Canada? I guess Canada. We love our bombs.

Sgt Otter

itazurakko: Tabatha Static: do your own GIS for "limbless Afghan kids who can't read English"

Yeah that was a PARTICULARLY bad design choice...

(pic)

Which they fixed.

Think the ones that burn the flag still eat the food from the package with the flag on it?