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cluster bombs....should we be using them?
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DcupSheepNipples
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No they have the same color of yellow on them. I don't now if they changed the color or what! But like I said mmm look yellow it's a food parcel and then Boom!!
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DcupSheepNipples
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After all that and time, they finally decide to change the food ration color! lol bureaucracy at its best!
Rations, bomblets a different color
Thursday, April 3, 2003 Posted: 10:23 PM EST (0323 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- After concerns were raised about the potential of Iraqi children confusing yellow packets of food rations with yellow bomblets being dropped there, the color of all future food rations will be changed, a U.S. official said Thursday.
The official said the wrapping on existing ration packets will not be changed, but future rations will be in an apricot-colored packaging.
The rations are produced by a company contracted by the U.S. Department of Defense, and coalition forces then distribute them to people in Iraq.
The U.N. International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday urged coalition forces to change the color of the rations so that children would not confuse them with bomblets that might explode when opened.
While -- unlike bomblets -- the rations are not being air dropped, UNICEF said, "Children could still confuse the ration and the unexploded ordnance."
A similar situation arose in Afghanistan last year. The military distributed the same type of food rations in that country, which also were the same color as ordnance. The military eventually changed the wrapping of the Afghan rations to blue so as not to confuse civilians.
Bomblets are individual units of cluster bombs and are made of metal. They are shaped like a soft drink can and are packed with high explosives. Cluster bombs contain about 200 small so-called bomblets designed to scatter themselves over a large area, targeting troops and military vehicles.
Rations, bomblets a different color
Thursday, April 3, 2003 Posted: 10:23 PM EST (0323 GMT)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- After concerns were raised about the potential of Iraqi children confusing yellow packets of food rations with yellow bomblets being dropped there, the color of all future food rations will be changed, a U.S. official said Thursday.
The official said the wrapping on existing ration packets will not be changed, but future rations will be in an apricot-colored packaging.
The rations are produced by a company contracted by the U.S. Department of Defense, and coalition forces then distribute them to people in Iraq.
The U.N. International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday urged coalition forces to change the color of the rations so that children would not confuse them with bomblets that might explode when opened.
While -- unlike bomblets -- the rations are not being air dropped, UNICEF said, "Children could still confuse the ration and the unexploded ordnance."
A similar situation arose in Afghanistan last year. The military distributed the same type of food rations in that country, which also were the same color as ordnance. The military eventually changed the wrapping of the Afghan rations to blue so as not to confuse civilians.
Bomblets are individual units of cluster bombs and are made of metal. They are shaped like a soft drink can and are packed with high explosives. Cluster bombs contain about 200 small so-called bomblets designed to scatter themselves over a large area, targeting troops and military vehicles.
Baby Gorilla
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Not sure....
Cluster bombs do a lot of devastation, so you'd not want to use them near civilians unless you have no other choice.
Cluster bombs do a lot of devastation, so you'd not want to use them near civilians unless you have no other choice.
c-sharp minor
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Napalm those fuckers. Let'em melt.
