Why, I know exactly what we’ll do — we’ll pretend it never happened! Because it muddies the narrative, don’t you know:
DONETSK, Ukraine — The Ukrainian Army appears to have fired cluster munitions on several occasions into the heart of Donetsk, unleashing a weapon banned in much of the world into a rebel-held city with a peacetime population of more than one million, according to physical evidence at the scene and interviews with witnesses and victims.
Sites where rockets fell in the city on Oct. 2 and Oct. 5 showed clear signs that cluster munitions had been fired from the direction of army-held territory, where misfired artillery rockets still containing cluster bomblets were found by villagers in farm fields.
The two attacks wounded at least six people and killed a Swiss employee of the International Red Cross based in Donetsk.
If confirmed, the use of cluster bombs by the pro-Western government could complicate efforts to reunite the country, as residents of the east have grown increasingly bitter over the Ukrainian Army’s tactics to oust pro-Russian rebels.
The use of cluster bombs is a violation of international law. Israel uses cluster bombs all the time. Ukrainian and Israel get their cluster bombs from the same source. The United States of America by way of the CIA. The USA is muddying the waters for obvious reasons. (Where is that 6500 page Senate report on the CIA’s use of torture?) The question that our incumbent representatives and senators need to answer is why does the USA still manufacture cluster bombs?