Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Saturday slammed President Biden for his plan to send indiscriminately lethal cluster bombs to Ukraine — suggesting that the choice ran afoul of Biden’s own eth…
“Last year, WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki called the use of cluster bombs a ‘war crime.’ Now President Biden plans to send them to Ukraine,” the“Biden was opposed to cluster bombs In 1982 as well, when he opposed their sale to Israel,” Kennedy added. “What happened to his conscience?”
Biden on Friday sought to explain the “difficult” decision to provide the widely banned weapons. “The Ukrainians are running out of ammunition,” he said. President Joe Biden said “it was a very difficult decision on my part” to send cluster bombs to Ukraine despite humanitarian concerns.Members of the Colorado Air National Guard inspected an American cluster bomb at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, in January.Cluster bombs’ powerful artillery shells scatter dozens of explosive submunitions over a wide area, killing and wounding unpredictably and often striking civilians.
Most members of NATO have joined a 111-nation pact banning all use, production, and transfer of cluster munitions — but not the United States, Russia or Ukraine.— a potential war crime, the Biden administration said at the time.
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