Is it true that Clinton voted in favor of Cluster bombs?

[ORDagnabbit]

Please provide link.

thanks

[jakem]

1. true

Senate Amendment No. 4882, an amendment to a Pentagon appropriations bill that would have banned the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas. Senator Obama of Illinois voted IN FAVOR of the ban. Senator Clinton of New York voted AGAINST the ban. Analysts say Clinton did not want to risk appearing "soft on terror,".


http://www.atlargely.com/2008/02/clinton-vs-obam.html


Yet he goes on to say:

But of the two remaining Democratic candidates, one decided her vote on Amendment No. 4882 according to a political calculation. The other used a moral calculation.

Whomever you're supporting, or even if you're not supporting either candidate, Rees makes a fair point here. On not one but two of her most important life-and-death votes in the Senate, Clinton embraced political expediency over the protection of innocent human lives.

[bushmeister0]

8. Or pissing off Israel and by extension A-PAC which = $$$$$

"Israeli commander: 'We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon.'

'What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,' the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war. Quoting his battalion commander, the rocket unit head stated that the IDF fired around 1,800 cluster bombs, containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblets.
In addition, soldiers in IDF artillery units testified that the army used phosphorous shells during the war, widely forbidden by international law. According to their claims, the vast majority of said explosive ordinance was fired in the final 10 days of the war."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761781.html

Dec. 7 2008:

"A global ban on cluster munition is possible by the end of next year, participants at a conference in Vienna said on Friday. Delegations from 138 nations met for three days in the Austrian capital, discussing aspects of a future treaty banning cluster munition. . . Of the 14 states to have used cluster munition in the past, only the United States, Russia, Israel and Eritrea failed to attend the Vienna conference."

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/154949.html

Looks like we're in good company - - as usual.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Google.

www.google.com

Unless you're going to pay me.

[babylonsister]

3. Yes, and google is very handy:

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/02/clinton-vs-obam.html

[redqueen]

4. Surprising, isn't it?

[hedgehog]

5. Here you go:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=4931458

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. It was "For the Children".

[lligrd]

7. Yet Another Reason Not To Support The Hillary Clusterf*** nt

[catgirl]

9. And against banning landmines (nt)