huh huh! sub-Butthead humour...cluster bombs are argued to be illegal under international law.

The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and Landmine Action, which launch their petition at the Imperial War Museum in London today, say that between 1991 and 1997 more than 110,000 tonnes of unexploded ordnance were cleared and destroyed. The Kuwaiti ministry of Defense still receives 15 to 20 reports of mines and unexploded ordnance every day.

Landmines were banned under the 1998 Ottawa treaty but international law does not cover unexploded shells and bombs. The global petition urges governments to agree a binding protocol as part of the UN convention on conventional weapons that would make belligerents responsible for clearing up unexploded bombs after a war and providing warnings to civilians.

The charities argue that the use of cluster bombs in Iraq may be illegal under the Geneva convention because it "may not adequately discriminate between civilians and combatants".

 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0228-01.htm

"The UK Government is currently participating in discussions under the UN Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) to explore new ways of tackling the hazards of ERW, including cluster bombs.

A CONFLICT OF POLICIES ?

Through its role in the CCW talks, the Government states that it is
"committed to minimising post-conflict risk to civilians." However, despite calls from the European Parliament and NGOs for a moratorium on cluster bombs, the UK continues to deploy these weapons and related delivery systems.

Cluster weapons are controversial in terms of their use as a weapon. In certain cases, their use in battle may be classified as indiscriminate and therefore potentially illegal under existing international law. As unexploded ordnance, cluster bombs are a threat to innocent civilians and a disaster for post-conflict communities.

While the UK Government is in talks at the UN to find ways to mitigate the post-conflict hazards of unexploded ordnance, the UK arms industry, supported by the Government, is working hard to proliferate the weapons which are indicted as a prime cause of the problem.

 http://nfpb.gn.apc.org/cluster.htm

Ok, ok your boring me now.....I did also mention other ordinance but I guess you'll not be paying for a "cluster bomb" but how about something else?

Surjest the following program....

1)Picture of target

2)Paint said ordinance (company logo, childrens messages?)

3)Have picture taken with ordinance

4)Picture of ordinance on aircraft (in flight?)

5)Picture of aircraft releasing weapon

6)Picture of target after attack

7)certificate of thanks

The above should perhaps be boxed in a presention gift pack (pictures in sequence, with certificate at end) that can then be hung in said school, workplace of the people who contributed and helped fund our country!!

I hereby hand my satire crown to Rev. I can't possibly come up with anything madder than that!

I'll risk my sanity and pray to whatever I can think of that this is indeed a 'modest proposal'. Thanks for outlining the project more clearly, I presume there'll be a bidding war to get 'disney' or 'mcdonalds' on the MOAB when they drop it on Tikrit...