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Our nation has an opportunity to join the civilized nations of the world, by honoring its agreements to refrain from the use of indiscriminant weapons.

Please take a minute to hear Cynthia's invitation to join her campaign to turn swords into plowshares. Then follow this link to take the next step.

Cynthia McKinney has staunchly opposed the use of cluster bombs by the United States for years. In 2001, McKinney used her seat in the Congress to question Pentagon leadership about the similarity between food packets and bomblets dropped on Afghanistan. General Myers only answer was to acknowledge that the deceptive similiarity was unfortunate. Ms. McKinney also opposed every military spending bills that funded the use of cluster munitions in Iraq. In 2006, when McKinney filed articles of impeachment against George W. Bush, one of her first counts against him was the military's illegal use of cluster bombs under his administration.

Cynthia McKinney introduced Articles of Impeachment, becoming the first Member of Congress to answer the growing public demand that the criminal acts of the Bush administration be subjected to the Constitutional checks imagined by the Founders.

http://www.cynthiaforcongress.com/I_text14.pdf

The BRussells Tribunal was a hearing committee composed of academics, intellectuals and artists in the tradition of the Russell Tribunal, set up in 1967 to investigate war crimes committed during the Vietnam War. The hearing was scheduled for 14-17th April 2004 at The Beursschouwburg and Les Halles in Brussels. It was presided by Professor François Houtart, who participated in the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on US Crimes in Vietnam in 1967, and who is one of the founding fathers of the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre. It was directed against the war in Iraq and the Imperial war policies of the Bush II administration. Its main focus was the ‘Project for the New American Century’, the think tank behind this war, in particular three of the co-signatories of the mission statement: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, as they are the physical link between the discourse and the brutal practice of the New Imperial World Order as designed by PNAC.

On Capitol Hill, Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), a critic of U.S. policy in Afghanistan, in an opening statement at a House International Relations subcommittee hearing on Afghanistan and the Taliban Wednesday held up both an unexploded cluster bomb packet and a food aid package, strikingly making the point of their similarity in size and color.

General Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addressing the similarity between food aid packages and cluster bombs said, "It is unfortunate that the cluster bombs - the unexploded ones - are the same color as the food packets."

"We have dropped flyers that show the pictures in the proper language explaining why you want to go to one and you don't want to go to the other. We hope that helps."

"The other thing we're doing with the food packets is changing the color of their design. I think it's going to be blue," he told reporters, adding that the design change could take some time.