fuck landmines
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- rasp0
landmines blow
- ********0
i am not sure if the physical act of making love to a landmine would be a very smart thing to do.
- lowimpakt0
dont knock it until you've tried it.
- dstlb0
If you try it, don't knock it.
- ********0
- phist0
fuck bush for not putting the u.s. on the mine ban treaty. can we get a real leader over here? please??
- ********0
fuck bush.. now that's better.
altho i like shaved as well..
- Tyrone0
landmines are gay
- ********0
ever tried a gay landmine?
- Tyrone0
i did try that....I was young and curious that's all.
- Redmond0
What are the odds someone close to him will ever step on one. Of course they don't care. It's killing by remote control at a distance. Spoiled brat shitheads.
- meph5040
Well I'll say this, I think anti personell mines are crap, in general. But the fact that these mines make themselves paper weights 48 to 336 hours after they are deployed is a lot friendlier than those of the past.
I don't want to see civilians die, But trust me, just cause a country says they won't use mines doesn't mean shit. At least for once the U.S. is being honest about the weapons and take measures to ensure that they aren't killing kids and nocoms.
I was a 13 Bravo in the U.S. Army. Part of that job is to remove mines as well as deploy them. And I always found it funny how there all these countries that "aren't using mines" generating new models every year. The only difference between the ones we are putting out and their's is that our's are using technology to limit who it damages, and their's are making it increasingly dangerous to disarm them.
I don't like Bush, and I can only hope America won't be stupid enough to relect him. But before everyone jumps on a bandwagon about an issue, they should at least know the truth about it, if thats ever really possible.
- lowimpakt0
We could talk for days about mines and the issue has a long history with me. This was an up-to-date story that took me by surprise as it was another GW step out of line with international sentiment and it it is a bad decision which ever way you look at it.
- lowimpakt0
also re. self destruct mines.
The ideas of a safer mine still baffles me. kind of like friendly fire. The Landmine Protocol of CCW (to which the US and China belong) allows for a 10% failure rate which is 10% too much. Some nations have claimed that it would take 15-20 years to convert their mine stockpiles to self-destruct mines. The Landmine Protocol allows nations 9 years before the regulations on use of smart mines come into effect. Anyway, introducing the concept of a smart mine only legitimizes the further use of mines which is not right. A report by the ICRC drafted with consultation by 30 military experts from 12 countries concluded that
"Because of the vast numbers [of mines] involved, and the complete absence of any [mine] marking, it is likely that the number of civilian casualties resulting from a large-scale strike with remotely delivered mines will greatly exceed the casualty rates seen with conventional minefields.... Even the doubtful benefit of self-destruction and self-deactivation at a later date will not prevent widespread casualties in the initial days after the strike. There is little doubt that the development of remotely delivered mines has increased the probability of a major rise in post-conflict mine casualties."
Any attempt to weaken international consensus to develop a regulatory framework is counter productice and in my view immoral and well, shit.