[Peace-discuss] Obama and cluster bombs...

[Robert Naiman]

Just to clarify - Obama didn't actually vote to ban the use of cluster
bombs - the Senate has never considered that question (and if you
could get three votes in the Senate for that proposition, we should
throw a party.)

Obama voted for Feinstein's modest but important amendment to tighten
restrictions on cluster bombs in the wake of Israel's wanton use of
them in Lebanon in 2006, a vote for which he was trashed by the Israel
right-or-wrong crowd. Not only among the remaining candidates - among
all the Senate Dems who ran for President, Obama was the only one to
vote for the Feinstein amendment (Biden and Dodd voted no.)

Obama Voted to Protect Civilians from Cluster Bombs. Where Were
Clinton, Biden, and Dodd?
March 7, 2007
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0307-35.htm


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Karen Medina <kmedina at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> >Obama voted to ban the use of cluster bombs.
>
> That is good news.
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