"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it… Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." - Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows

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Hillary Clinton today voted against a bill sponsored by Senators Pat Leahy and Diane Feinstein that would have limited the use of cluster bombs, the barbaric weapons that litter the landscape of Iraq and Lebanon, threatening civilians. Before the vote, Feinstein displayed photographs of Iraqi children who were maimed when they picked up unexploded cluster munitions. Clinton was apparently unmoved. The roll call vote is HERE

Senate rejects limits on cluster bombs

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday rejected a move by Democrats to stop the Pentagon from using cluster bombs near civilian targets and to cut off sales unless purchasers abide by the same rules.

On a 70-30 vote, the Senate defeated an amendment to a Pentagon budget bill to block use of the deadly munitions near populated areas. The vote came after the State Department announced last month that it is investigating whether
Israel misused American-made cluster bombs in civilian areas of Lebanon.

Unexploded cluster bombs — anti-personnel weapons that spray bomblets over a wide area — litter homes, gardens and highways in south Lebanon after Israel's 34-day war with Hezbollah militants.

From Ward Sutton at the Village Voice