The reason why they have an uncanny ability to target children is because a lot of them don’t explode on contact which is what they are designed to do. If cluster munitions exploded on contact like they are suppose to I don’t think we would be having this debate.

If there is one munition they should be forcing to be made illegal is DU munitions.

Notice how no one cared about the cluster bombs among your readers since they mostly affected hizbollah areas in the south. Such hate…

Mr. T,

Cluster bombs are criminal and so is HA. They are the ones who have benn ansd are still dragging Lebanon to the bottom as per the Shiite Mufti Ameen…

Too bad for Olmert, now he cannot overtake Bush as top terrorist.

Terrorist list:

1. Bush 200,000+ kills
2. Olmert 5000+ kills
3. Bin Laden 3000+ kills
4. Hizballah 1000+ kills

Mr. T.,

There are those of us who deplore Hizbullah’s behavior AND the use of cluster bombs. We don’t have to choose one or the other.

Umm, why don’t you be fair and also deplore Israel’s and USA bvehavior in Middle East?

Invading and occupying other people’s countries must be something normal to you? That is not deplorable huh?

it happens that most of the victims of cluster bombs are HA supporters. do you deplore them? do you think they brought it on themselves? I bet that you do…

Mr. T,

I don’t see why one must politically discriminate in humanitarian matters. I deplore Hezbollah but I also deplore the use of cluster bombs on innocent civilians. I don’t see why these should contradict.

Mind you, I also sympathize with civilian victims of terrorism, whether Lebanese, Iraqi, or, yes, Israelis.

Do you?

Abu Stayff,

You sound fair, I agree.

Correction: Too bad for Olmert, now he cannot overtake Bush as top terrorist.

–Active– Terrorist list:

1. Bush 200,000+ kills
2. Olmert 5000+ kills
3. Bin Laden 3000+ kills
4. Hizballah 1000+ kills

P.S: Saddam used to be Numero Uno, but that right belonged to someone else :)

I also sympathize with non civilian victims as I am principled against war itself. but some victims are more victims than others and there’s a huge difference between an israeli civilian victim and a Lebanese one. for starters, the israelis are illegally present on someone else’s chunk of land and they will have to deal with the consequences of natives trying to take it back by all means…

Cluster bombs (and mines, by the way) kill innocents but civilians are not the intended targets. Suicide bombings and unguided rockets kill innocents who are the intended target. (Some people have what could be described as a compartmentalized morality.) Ban them all!

Mr T, Why do people like you always have a “but” after they make a moral statement? There is no “but”. You expect us to place a high value on your “humanitarian” views, when in the same comments you say something that is profoundly un-humanitarian?

Craig, because they view them as the aggressors. They live on land that did not belong to them hence can suffer the consequences. If everyone worries about giving the palestinians some land and state to call home then a lot of these views will weaken and go away. Instead they keep oprressing them more and more and hence giving the extremeists reason to keep growing. it is a vicious cycle that will not end peacefully.

Craig, what do you mean people like me? why do you have to carefully place me in a demographic? I speak for myself.

while i don’t justify at all the targetting of civilians, I assure you their being in the way during a legitimate struggle is by no means an excuse to halt that struggle. It is what Israel is doing anyhow do you not think they calculated at least one civilian death let alone a thousand in their last war? did that prevent them from carrying on what they think is a legitimate war? that’s the same reasoning i employ here while stressing that US is slightly more right than THEM. that is my opinion, i stick to it, convince me otherwise.

Craig,

Jesus said that you should remove the log in your eye before you point at the straw in other’s eyes. You can see it clearly then. You call people terrorist and you support the biggest terrorist in the universe.

Jesus was right. You are hypocrites.

America’s hypocrisy was displayed in IRAQ for the world to see the false prophet’s action.

You tipped the scales towards iran’s favor and now you are complaining… heehee .. what hypocrites.

Craig, what do you mean people like me?

I mean, people like you. People who think they have the moral high ground, but then immediately undermine themselves by getting all ambiguous and selective.

why do you have to carefully place me in a demographic? I speak for myself.

I wasn’t aware that hypocrites had a special demographic?

Deliberately killing the innocent is murder. Period. No “but”.

Whatever, did you actually manage to have a complete conversation with me while I wasn’t even here? Nice job :P