cluster bombs

I was listening this morning to the Today programme and Adam Ingram, a defence minister was justifying the use of cluster bombs in close proximity to Iraqi civilian buildings. His justification was that British lives would be saved. This makes a British life worth more than an Iraqi, something that in terms of racism we have been trying to deny for decades. The possibility of a British death cannot justify the use of airborne mines in civilian areas. Cluster bombs are just another type of mine, one that is deployed in a different manner, when they fail to explode they become mines. The UK government is a signatory to the anti mines agreement and thus should take a lead and outlaw the use of these weapons anywhere near civilian areas, probably anywhere infact. Audio clips from Today on cluster bombs and the elusive WMDs and their 45 minute activation. We were misled and the government used weapons they said they would not. I'm glad to hear the Today programme not letting these stories drop off the agenda. The cluster bomb story from the BBC news website.