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Anti-cluster bomb treaty passed over by big three
Zimbabwe News.Net Wednesday 3rd December, 2008
More than 90 nations have signed a treaty to ban cluster bombs, while influential arms producers, including the United States, Russia and China, have decided to remain outside the pact.
At the end of Wednesday's treaty session, 92 states out of 125 at a conference in Oslo had signed the treaty.
Cluster bombs, which contain hundreds of so-called bomblets, have killed and maimed tens of thousands of people over the last decades.
Not all of the smaller bombs explode on impact and they pose lethal danger to civilians, many years after they have been used in war.
The US State Department has stated it would not sign the anti cluster-bomb treaty because a general ban would put the lives of military personnel at risk.
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Sammy 12-04-08, 01:13 AM |
Anti-cluster bomb treaty passed over by big three
I like the words in this article, “influential arms producers," Yes these are the KILLERS of civilized society.
The word arms producers should be taken out of each country’s dictionary, because there should not be any arms producers at all if we want to survive in peace in this planet of ours.
These national killers who produce, or influence others to produce arms, are the destructive enemies of mankind.
Sammy
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Ababa 12-04-08, 01:52 AM |
Let's not hurt military personnel!!!!!
Yeah, right! Okay to kill and maim civilians, but not our boys who make a living killing and suppressing people. Let’s not forget that the US supposedly stands for peace, law and order, yet is the leading manufacturer of offensive weapons. The only way to stop this is to sue the weapons manufacturers for any injuries or death. Someone has to be responsible and money is one thing the US understands.
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Anonymous 12-04-08, 05:57 AM |
If weapons is built, someone will use them. Atomic bomb is a good example. Yes there are offensive and there are defensive war. But generally, the better equip one will always be the one who started a war.
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fish 12-04-08, 02:37 PM |
pretty clear-cut
Those who signed the treaty probably have no problem with that since they do not have the bombs, the technologies or the sophistication. They use many other things. Those who refused to sign are the ones relying on the bombs to fight. A clear-cut case of the haves and the have-nots. As the product life cycle grows and more join in with the haves, the balance will get tilted. Best if no one has any reason or excuse to use any weapons in the first place but that is unrealistic. And S. Africa is asking for help from the U.N.. How can anyone go there, unarmed, get the job done while minimizing casualties and not get killed? Those people who pick fights or wrong others are the main cause of problems, not the weapons which are primarily tools that can do good if use wisely, or do evil when fell in the hands of deviant minds. Should we ban airplanes after 9-11?
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justincase 12-04-08, 01:59 AM |
AK47 and other version of the AK47 is not only the well known instruments of death in the world that is wide use by all countries of the continents as well as produce cheaply should be stop. It is very cheap and readily available to all buyer. Russia is selling machinery to produce it in Venenzuela, Chavez country and we know it will be given away freely to a country who support him.Any country that wanted it will get it.Look at the outlaw of the sea of Somalia,all of them are armed with it and all African countries are equiped with the AK47 ready to kill.Even the poorest country of the world AK47 is there.
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Anonymous 12-04-08, 02:07 AM |
Ababa and Sammy, tell me, who carries the guilt, the weapon manufacturer, the bullet or bomb, or the persons who use them, or the government that sanctify the use of them? You work it out!
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Sammy 12-04-08, 09:32 AM |
It is very simple
Anonymous
12-04-08, 02:07 AM
No weapons, no deaths, no war, no profits for the manufacturers, and no lucritive jobs for those who work producing arms.
So the basic responsibility goes to those that produce arms in the first place.
Sammy
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Anonymous 12-04-08, 11:02 AM |
Poor misguided clueless sammy
Sammy;117102: Anonymous
12-04-08, 02:07 AM
No weapons, no deaths, no war, no profits for the manufacturers, and no lucritive jobs for those who work producing arms.
So the basic responsibility goes to those that produce arms in the first place.
Sammy
Tell that to the people being hacked to death with machettes!
Spears, swords, rocks and bare hands have killed more then all the bullets and bombs combined.
Clueless simple sammy always living in a dream world induced by Opium and welfare checks.
Sammy Grow up already.
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Anonymous 12-04-08, 02:32 PM |
It is very simple,Sammy? What are you proposing to do with all those thousands who work in those factories? out of work and on welfare? No the responsibility lies with the governments, if they don’t enter wars than there will be no need for all this “iron-ware”, teach then Sammy, that it is better to produce food,shelter and medicine, but above all not to look and covet what others have (oil for example), once you have done all that, we’ll elect you presdent of the United States of Utopia!
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Sammy 12-04-08, 03:01 PM |
Oh! how good it is to live in my dream world
Anonymous
12-04-08, 02:32 PM
Yes, in my dream world there are no weapons of Mass Destruction, there are no bullies, and arrogant people that push you around, there is free drugs for all the addicts, there is a low crime rate, plenty of food for all, free medical care, and medicine for all rich and poor.
Yes, this is my dream world, but like all dreams at times they might become reality, who knows if all of us dreamers become united, we can probably convince others to join us and create a dream world of our own.
I believe it is time that humanity realizes that it is time for a change of course, and that is the course of peace, tranquility, human justice, equality, and a closer distance between the “Have” and the “Have not”.
Sammy, and his dream world
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