the u.s. government, the biden administration would potentially be engaging in war crimes if this goes forward? what i think is that we are would risk losing our moral leadership because when you look at the fact that over 120 countries have signed the convention on cluft are munitions saying they should never be used, they should never be used and in fact, many of us have urged the administration to sign on to this convention. so i m hoping that the administration would reconsider this because these are very dangerous bombs, they re dangerous weapons and this is a line that i don t believe we should cross. you notably, were the only member of the u.s. house of representatives to vote against uth rising the war in afghanistan in 2001. now, of course, a state department report on the chaotic afghan wig drawl effort found that the biden administration
nato. let s talk about cluster bombs because you ve been calling for the u.s. to give cluster bombs to ukraine for mo has agreed to do so. canada, meco, western europe, dozens of other countries, in fact, the majority of all countries around the globe have banned cluster bomb because they can call indiscriminate damage and kill civilians especially later. they banned cluster bombs from laos from the 1960s, do you have any reservation about giving cluster bombs to ukraine? you re right. the geneva convention, there are signatories to that convention who do not agree with these munitions. we are not a signatory to the geneva convention on cluster munitions and neither is ukraine, and by the way, russia is dropping with impunity cluster bombs in ukraine, in the country of ukraine right now. all of the ukrainians and zelenskyy are asking for is to