Democrats in July 2013: Cluster bombs are indiscriminate, unreliable, and pose an unacceptable danger to civilians. We must immediately ban the export of cluster munitions and halt any further production.
Democrats in July 2023: Cluster bombs will, uh, save liberal democracy.
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Feinstein Calls on President to End Use of Unreliable Cluster Munitions
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Members of Congress Introduce Cluster Munitions Legislation
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DoD Policy on Cluster Munitions
Six years later: "Cluster munitions can preserve liberal democracy in Ukraine. Let's vow to perpetuate their use."
Here is our U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield in March last year condemning cluster munitions as a violation of the Geneva Convention.
https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/167...4517824512
Cluster bomb variations were dropped in...
WWII
Vietnam
1978 South Lebanon conflict, the IDF dropped US cluster bombs and again in 1982 and 2006.
1975–1991 Western Sahara war by the Royal Moroccan Army
1979–1989 Soviet–Afghan War
1982 Falklands War
Grenada, 1983
Nagorno Karabakh War, 1992–1994, 2016, 2020 (Azerbaijan and Armenia conflict)
Desert Storm, 1991 (US, UK, France)
First Chechen War, 1995
Kosovo War, 1998-1999
Yugoslavia, 1999 (dropped by US, UK, Netherlands)
Afghanistan, 2001–2002
Iraq, 2003–2006
2008 Russo-Georgian War
Libya, 2011
Syria, 2012
South Sudan, 2013
Ukraine, 2014
Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, 2015–2022
Ethiopia, 2021
Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2022
According to this BankTrack 2012 report the following banksters financed cluster munitions:
France is a party since around 2006 to the international convention that bans cluster munitions.
Democrats in July 2023: Cluster bombs will, uh, save liberal democracy.
Feinstein Calls on President to End Use of Unreliable Cluster Munitions
Members of Congress Introduce Cluster Munitions Legislation
DoD Policy on Cluster Munitions
Six years later: "Cluster munitions can preserve liberal democracy in Ukraine. Let's vow to perpetuate their use."
Here is our U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield in March last year condemning cluster munitions as a violation of the Geneva Convention.
https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/167...4517824512
Cluster bomb variations were dropped in...
WWII
Vietnam
1978 South Lebanon conflict, the IDF dropped US cluster bombs and again in 1982 and 2006.
1975–1991 Western Sahara war by the Royal Moroccan Army
1979–1989 Soviet–Afghan War
1982 Falklands War
Grenada, 1983
Nagorno Karabakh War, 1992–1994, 2016, 2020 (Azerbaijan and Armenia conflict)
Desert Storm, 1991 (US, UK, France)
First Chechen War, 1995
Kosovo War, 1998-1999
Yugoslavia, 1999 (dropped by US, UK, Netherlands)
Afghanistan, 2001–2002
Iraq, 2003–2006
2008 Russo-Georgian War
Libya, 2011
Syria, 2012
South Sudan, 2013
Ukraine, 2014
Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, 2015–2022
Ethiopia, 2021
Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2022
According to this BankTrack 2012 report the following banksters financed cluster munitions:
- ABN AMRO (Dutch)
- Bank of America
- Bank of China
- Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ
- Barclays
- BBVA (Spain)
- BNP Paribas (French)
- Citigroup
- Commerzbank AG (German)
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- Crédit Agricole (French)
- Credit Suisse Group
- Deutsche Bank
- Goldman Sachs
- HSBC
- Industrial Bank of China
- ING Group (Dutch)
- JPMorgan Chase
- Korea Development Bank
- Lloyds TSB (British)
- Merrill Lynch
- Morgan Stanley
- Royal Bank of Canada
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Sberbank (Russian)
- Société Générale (SocGen, French)
- UBS
- Wells Fargo
France is a party since around 2006 to the international convention that bans cluster munitions.
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