Obama Regime Keeps Landmine Policy in Place
November 26th, 2009Via: Washington Post:
A review of U.S. landmines policy is ongoing and will take awhile to complete, a State Department spokesman said on Wednesday, clarifying an earlier comment that the Obama administration had concluded it needed the weapons.
“The administration is committed to a comprehensive review of its landmines policy. That review is still ongoing,” spokesman Ian Kelly said in a statement.
Speaking ahead of a review conference next weekend in Cartagena, Colombia, on the 10-year-old international Mine Ban Treaty, Kelly said the U.S. policy review was “going to take some time” and while it continued the current policy of declining to join the accord would remain in force.
The Mine Ban Treaty bars the use, stockpiling, production or transfer of antipersonnel mines. It has been endorsed by 156 countries, but the United States, Russia, China, and India are among the countries that have not adopted it.
more change we can believe in!
No HOPE for the children getting their arms and legs blown off. Perhaps the CHANGE is to cover the Afghani, Iraqi, and other Third World children with the new ObamaCare program and give them new artificial arms and legs. God bless America! Right.
Maybe there should be a “Change” (WITH quotes) category tag…
Saw a fun version: rope and chains
to reiterate, the non-privileged majority of the planet’s population understood on day one* that the loudly heralded “change” was a sick joke. most of the “developed” world is still engaged in self-indulgent delusion and self deception that things are somehow different and “better” now than before 20 January.
*literally: missiles fired from unmanned drones smashing the bodies of families in mud huts in Pakistan is more than enough evidence for those who wish to see the truth.