George Bush yesterday vetoes a stem cell funding program because it uses human embryos that otherwise would be discarded. Yet he has no interest in banning cluster bombs that spew hundreds of land mines in small canisters over huge areas because he believes they are necessary for the military to use.
Elaine Engeler writes for AP:
"Fired by artillery or dropped by aircraft, cluster bombs are canisters that open in flight and eject dozens or hundreds of small "bomblets" across a wide area. Those that do not explode right away may detonate later, experts say.
"Children are especially vulnerable because the bomblets are often an eye-catching yellow with small parachutes attached.
The United Nations has estimated that Israel dropped as many as 4 million of the bomblets in southern Lebanon last summer, with perhaps 40 percent of the submunitions failing to explode on impact."
What hypocrisy.
Bush believes in saving cells that have not developed into human beings, but he has no sympathy for eight-year-olds and other children who view the lethal canisters as exciting toys to be picked up and played with.
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