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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChrisJP who wrote (7452)	4/4/2003 7:26:10 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

We are always trying to build better weapons. No one is arguing that the cluster bomb is anything but an extremely effective weapon - it's superb at killing people. I assume this isn't what you mean...? I'd say at maybe 20% of what you're seeing on the battlefield is really the Dept. of Defense testing what they built. IMHO this would rank as disgusting practice if true... "Let's test out these in a war and see how many innocents they kill"... eerily reminiscent of testing incapacitant/poison gases and surgical procedures on prisoners. If you must develop cluster bombs (the EU has voted to ban them from European armed forces, precisely because they are so lethal afterwards for civilians) then test them on a closed range - and then send out the developers, and their managers, to find out in person exactly how 'effective' their work is, and how safe it is afterwards. This should also prove quite 'effective'.