It’s hard to imagine a weapon nastier than a bomb which throws out hundreds of bomblets which in turn explode, spewing shrapnel or incendiary material for hundreds of feet, covering an area the size of a football field, and yet leaving behind a large percentage of duds which can explode on contact years later to kill civilians and animals.
But there is something worse, and we have been using it in Iraq.
Although there have been stories on cluster bombs on DKos before, this was news to me. For more, turn the page