111 nations sign on to Cluster Bomb Ban ... but the US and its defense manufacturers opposed the ban--of course!

B1-B Lancer dropping cluster bombs on God knows what

Is it any wonder why the US opposed the ban ... considering the millions of dollars spent on such marvelous killing machines as the one shown above?

Of course, the ban isn't perfect, but it was a step in the right direction. Limiting the weight and numbers of submunitions (fancy word for multiple bomblets or the cluster) would also limit the lethality of the cluster bombs and that was a step too far for the US.

It's as simple as this: we like the good old fashioned kinds of cluster bombs and their "bomblets"!

How else might we produce such smiling faces as the one shown below?

Say "Cheese"! ... and oh yes ... say, "God bless cluster bombs wherever they are sent to protect America!"