Pressure-Cooker and Cluster Bombs
"Boston Bombs Were Loaded to Maim," a New York Times headline shouted.
U.S. cluster bombs have done the same in places like Afghanistan and Yemen.
Shouldn't we end that hypocrisy?
Pressure-cooker bombs and cluster bombs are both extremely cruel --
shredding human flesh to produce maximum pain, injury and death.
"Boston Bombs Were Loaded to Maim," a New York Times headline shouted.
Click here to help put an end to it now.
Cluster bombs have been banned since 2010 by a treaty that 81 nations are
already party to. Another 27 nations have signed but not yet ratified.
The United States is not among the signers, serving rather as the chief
opponent of the treaty.
That's morally unacceptable.
The Pentagon's cluster bombs caused more civilian casualties in Iraq
in 2003 and Kosovo in 1999 than any other weapon. Those actions were
illegal at the time, under the Geneva Conventions.
When cluster bombs are dropped in residential areas, many bomblets fail to
explode and are picked up later by curious and unfortunate children.
Causalities from failed cluster sub-munitions rose between 1991 and
2007 from 5,500 to 80,000 -- and 24% of the victims were children under
14.
Let's end the use of cluster bombs. Tell the President and Congress to sign
and ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Please forward this email widely to like-minded friends.
Related:
Here Comes AIPAC, Lobbying for War, Just Foreign Policy
* Urge your representatives in Washington to oppose AIPAC's "backdoor
to war"
bill and to take steps towards peace with Iran and Palestine, using the
form below.
* No backdoor to war with Iran
Tell the President and Congress to sign and ratify the Convention on Cluster
Munitions:
TEXT OF THE PETITION:
U.S. cluster bombs have done to children and adults in Afghanistan, Yemen, and
elsewhere what pressure-cooker bombs did in Boston. Cluster bombs have been
banned since 2010 by a treaty to which 81 nations thus far are party. Another
27 nations have signed. The United States should sign and ratify. Please work
to make that happen right away.
TO SIGN THE PETITION, GO TO
http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7784
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