Friend,

Cluster bombs kill indiscriminately, and disproportionately kill children who are attracted to and pick up the bomblets. The majority of the world's nations have banned them by treaty.

Last year, the U.S. media condemned Russian use of cluster bombs in Ukraine as illegal and immoral.

But the United States has refused to join the treaty, has used cluster bombs in a number of recent wars, and manufactures cluster bombs in the United States (unlike most of the items in our homes, which are manufactured abroad).

Now U.S. Congress Members from both political parties are proposing to ship cluster bombs to Ukraine.

We don't know what, if anything, U.S. media outlets will say in response to such an evil and hypocritical proposal. But we know that we can and must raise our voices.

Will you please take a moment, click here, and send an email to your Representative, Senators, and President Biden?

RootsAction national director Norman Solomon wrote in The Hill newspaper on Wednesday that the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, Adam Smith (D-Wash.), recently said he was “open to” shipping cluster munitions to Ukraine -- not because he could deny they would gruesomely shred the bodies of men, women, children, and little babies, but because the United States has a lot of them on hand. He also argued that Russia had already used them, so the United States might as well do the same.

Members of the Russian government have recently made statements to the effect that putting nuclear weapons into Belarus is all right because the United States puts them in several other countries, and advocating "regime change" for Ukraine is all right because Donald Rumsfeld did so for Iraq.

This is the opposite of moral reasoning, no matter who does it.

The U.S. government cannot claim both to be fighting Russia because it is evil and to be deeming actions acceptable if Russia has done them.

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-- The RootsAction.org team

Background:
>> Norman Solomon, The Hill: "The U.S. Should Not Provide Cluster Munitions to Ukraine"
>> Convention on Cluster Munitions

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