Shameful and despicable - rejecting the treaty but seeking "technical upgrades"

cluster bombs and other anti-personnel weapons are among the nastiest devices in the entire nasty weapons inventory, with the possible exception of depleted uranium and other "dirty" bombs...

The United States on Friday rejected an international call to abandon the use of cluster bombs, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.

"We ... take the position that these munitions do have a place and a use in military inventories, given the right technology as well as the proper rules of engagement," McCormack said.

Forty-six countries meeting in Oslo on Friday pledged to seek a treaty banning cluster bombs by next year, with major user and stockpiler Britain and manufacturer France signing on, Norway said.

"We, ourselves, have already taken a couple of other steps with regard to technical upgrades to cluster munitions, as well as looking very closely at the rules of engagement, how they are used," said McCormack.

the fact that the u.s. rejects such a treaty is further evidence that the u.s. is and will seek to retain the title of the world's most powerful terrorist state...

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