January 11, 2011 - ELIZABETH JACKSON: It was called America's Secret War.
From 1964 and 1973, the US dropped 260 million cluster submunitions on Laos in a covert mission to destroy North Vietnamese supply lines.
Not only did the mission fail ... it left a deadly legacy; 80 million unexploded bombs scattered across the Laos countryside.
The bombs have killed or maimed more than 20,000 people since the war ended and they're a major obstacle to economic development in one of Asia's poorest nations.
This year, Australia signed a new international treaty banning the use of cluster bombs.
A Senate committee is currently considering a bill to ratify the treaty but critics say the bill doesn't go far enough to help end the scourge of cluster munitions.
The ABC's Joanna McCarthy visited Laos and filed this report. {continued-transcript}
In 2003 some 72% of Americans fully supported the Abandoning of the Missions and those Sent to Accomplish so extremely Quickly after 9/11!!At least some 95%, if not more as less then 1% serve them, not only still support the, just below, total lack of Sacrifice, they ran from any and all Accountability and left everything still on the table to be continually used if the political/military want was still in play in future executive/legislative wants!!
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Deadly Legacy: Cluster Bombs
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Elizabeth Jackson didn't mention that allies of the US, Britain, Australia and New Zealand plays several small parts in this war of aggression.
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