Once again, I don’t know the entire story of the Georgia/Russia conflict. What I did hear, is that the Georgian president poked Russia in the eye and Russia kicked their ass. The Georgian president expected help from the West and didn’t get it.

No sooner did Russia start pounding them and our government starts talking about “how bad Russia is”.

In my mind, the days of the U.S. telling other countries “that’s naughty” are long gone. They can’t be trusted.

And also, in my humble opinion, that is very, very sad.

How about this, then;

“US uses cluster bombs in Sadr City
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:48:10 GMT
US used cluster bombs in Baghdad’s Sadr City.
An Iraqi member of parliament has revealed that the US forces have used forbidden weapons against Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s Sadr City. ”

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=53346&sectionid=351020201

Coverage of events like this and the images of the car bombings and attacks inside Iraq have dwindled down because photo journalists are not being granted access.

Editor & Publisher reports that the Iraqi government “will soon routinely ban journalists from the sites of bombings and other violent incidents.” Iraq’s Interior Ministry Operations Director said the ban was not “a curtailment of press freedom,” and is needed “to protect journalists,” to safeguard evidence, to deny terrorists “information that they achieved their goals,” and to respect human rights, “by not photographing dead bodies.”

http://www.prwatch.org/node/6046

USA Today is pretty normal?

“Cluster bombs kill in Iraq, even after shooting ends”

BAGHDAD — The little canisters dropped onto the city, white ribbons trailing behind. They clattered into streets, landed in lemon trees, rattled around on roofs, settled onto lawns.
Shahad Thaer Mustafa, 5, stands in front of her Baghdad home where her uncle was killed by a cluster bomblet.
By Jack Gruber, USA TODAY

When Jassim al-Qaisi saw the canisters the size of D batteries falling on his neighborhood just before 7 a.m. April 7, he laughed and asked himself: “Now what are the Americans throwing on our heads?” (Interactive graphic: How a cluster bomb works and more)

The strange objects were fired by U.S. artillery outside Baghdad as U.S. forces approached the Iraqi capital. In the span of a few minutes, they would kill four civilians in the al-Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad and send al-Qaisi’s teenage son to the hospital with metal fragments in his foot. ”

“U.S. Using Cluster Munitions In Iraq

(Washington, D.C., April 1, 2003) – U.S. ground forces in Iraq are using cluster munitions with a very high failure rate, creating immediate and long-term dangers for civilians and friendly soldiers, Human Rights Watch reported today.
” The United States should not be using these weapons. Iraqi civilians will be paying the price with their lives and limbs for many years. ”
Steve Goose
Executive Director of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch

Landmines in Iraq: Questions and Answers
Background Briefing, April 1, 2003

Cluster Munitions a Foreseeable Hazard in Iraq
Background Briefing, March 18, 2003

While use of the weapon has not yet been confirmed by official U.S. military sources, it is evident from television images and stories from reporters embedded with U.S. units that U.S. forces are using artillery projectiles and rockets containing large numbers of submunitions, or cluster munitions. When these submunitions fail to explode on impact as designed, they become hazardous explosive “duds”—functioning like volatile, indiscriminate antipersonnel landmines. ”

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2003/04/01/usint5475.htm