On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 04:05:35 -0700 (PDT), robobass
wrote:

Hmmm, They didn't show all of the amputee kids who are still falling victim to buried cluster bombs, which are estimated to outnumber Laos' current population.

The war ends, but the killing doesn't stop. People still get killed in Germany when a WWII bomb gets unearthed. Has anyone ever considered building obsolescence into munitions? couldn't every new bomb or rocket or cartridge contain something which would make it inert after a few years?

Considering that it has to be stored for many years before
deployment...up to spending gazillions of dollars every few years?

But I do agree its a shame about the mines. Sure all those kids were
hurt with mines?

They didnt show all the people who died pounding on bombs with a
hammer either. Not enough left to shovel back into the new bomb
crater.


Gunner

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"[F]ar from being the Great Satan, I would say that we
are the Great Protector. We have sent men and women
from the armed forces of the United States to other parts
of the world throughout the past century to put down oppression.
We defeated Fascism. We defeated Communism.
We saved Europe in World War I and World War II.
We were willing to do it, glad to do it. We went to
Korea. We went to Vietnam. All in the interest of
preserving the rights of people.

And when all those conflicts were over, what did we
do? Did we stay and conquer? Did we say, "Okay, we
defeated Germany. Now Germany belongs to us? We defeated Japan,
so Japan belongs to us"? No. What did we do?
We built them up. We gave them democratic systems which
they have embraced totally to their soul.
And did we ask for any land? No.

The only land we ever asked for was
enough land to bury our dead."

General Colin Powell