Where is the link proving George W Bush and Dick Cheney are not dining on the bodies of Iraqi children? shame on YOU sir.
especially considering the fact that our government is carrying out covert actions w/in iran (an act of war) and in the 50's we helped overthrow a democratically elected government in iran in order to install a brutal dictator who killed thousands. odd how so many want to attack iran, yet saudi arabia does the same things iran is accused of and we continue to be their allies and our president goes around holding hands with their princes. last time i checked none of the hijackers were from iran, while 15 were saudis. this administration goes so far to protect the saudis that bush friend james baker takes up their case when the 9/11 families try to sue them.
ah yes, the same logic used to invade iraq! "saddam must prove that he does not have wmds!" how do you prove a negative? you cannot prove that unicorns and leprechauns dont exist, so by your logic they must, right?
Actually that is NOT a stupid question...If it is a tactic to counter Iran from spreading it's terroristic influence, great!... Iran is the biggest contributor of terroristic tactics that have been used against us and the best strategy is to continue the intel against them...Allow Iran to make mistakes and to intelligently leverage on this... Hopefully we will drawdown the forces to "force things" into play...The monitoring and intel must be greater.
Of course Iran is involved in Iraq - and may be virtually fighting a proxy war against us? So what! China has done this to us in Vietnam. We fought a proxy war against the Soviet Union in afganistan. We might be fighting a proxy war in Afganistan against Pakistan to be honest. Supporting and arming the enemies of your enemies is about as common as apple pie.
IIRC, land mines and booby traps are prohibited by international treaty. The Ottawa Treaty (Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction) came into force on March 1, 1999. The treaty was the result of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, launched in 1992. The campaign and its leader, Jody Williams, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for its efforts. The treaty does not include anti-tank mines, cluster bombs or claymore-type mines operated in command mode and focuses specifically on anti-personnel mines, because these pose the greatest long term (post-conflict) risk to humans and animals since they are typically designed to be triggered by any movement or pressure of only a few kilograms, whereas anti-tank mines require much more weight (or a combination of factors that would exclude humans). Existing stocks must be destroyed within four years of signing the treaty. Signatories of the Ottawa Treaty agree that they will not use, develop, manufacture, stockpile or trade in anti-personnel land mines. There were originally 122 signatories in 1997; currently, it has been signed by 155 countries and ratified by 153. Another 40 have yet to sign on. There is a clause in the treaty, Article 3, which permits countries to retain land mines for use in training or development of countermeasures. 64 countries have taken this option. As an alternative to an outright ban, 10 countries follow regulations that are contained in a 1996 amendment of Protocol II of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). The countries are China, Finland, India, Israel, Latvia, Morocco, Pakistan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mine
