Let the free market decide

Over 100 countries have signed a treaty that bans the use of cluster bombs, George Bush and the US govt disagree. In addition to not signing it, we didn't even show up at the talks about it. Among the handful of countries not to sign the treaty, a common trait was being home to companies that manufacture them.

This is nothing new for the country with the largest military budget in the world and the most WMD's, we have been stubbornly against common sense civility before GW came to town. Bill Clinton passed on banning land mines, and when a vote on cluster bombs came up in the Senate in '06 out of the 3 current candidates, Obama was the only one that supported banning them. The issue came up at that time largely due to Israel's use of them in Lebanon in the last days of the fighting. The Red Cross came out against them. Our PR department opened up an investigation at the time (a probe as some would call it), to make it seem like we cared, meanwhile OJ is still investigating who the real killer is.