{"id":1968180,"date":"2023-07-09T20:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T00:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-congresswoman-urges-biden-to-reconsider-sending-cluster-bombs-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2023-07-09T20:34:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T00:34:48","slug":"dem-congresswoman-urges-biden-to-reconsider-sending-cluster-bombs-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-congresswoman-urges-biden-to-reconsider-sending-cluster-bombs-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat lawmaker urges Biden to rethink sending cluster bombs to Ukraine."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-congresswoman-urges-biden-to-reconsider-sending-cluster-bombs-to-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1968180&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California. (Photo by Kimberly White\/Getty Images for Demand Justice)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/brooke-mallory\">Brooke Mallory<\/a><br \/>5:28 PM \u2013 Sunday, July 9, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>Representative Barbara Lee requested on Sunday that President Joe Biden reconsider his plan to supply highly lethal and contentious cluster bombs to Ukraine as it conducts its counteroffensive against Russia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><strong>\u201cCluster bombs should never be used \u2013 that\u2019s crossing the line,\u201d<\/strong> Lee (D-Calif.) said. <strong>\u201cOnce you see what takes place \u2013 we know what takes place \u2013 in terms of cluster bombs being very dangerous to civilians.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cluster bombs are banned in about 125 nations due to their proclivity to bring indiscriminate death and devastation to non-military targets, unleashing dozens of tiny explosive submunitions that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-congresswoman-urges-biden-to-reconsider-sending-cluster-bombs-to-ukraine\/\" title=\"Democrat lawmaker urges Biden to rethink sending cluster bombs to Ukraine.\">typically spread mid-air<\/a> to impact many targets, much like several pellets spread from a single shotgun shell.<\/p>\n<p>The danger, according to U.S. officials, is particularly in the submunitions, which do not always explode immediately and might inflict harm long after they are deployed if discovered by an unwary individual.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><strong>\u201cThey don\u2019t always immediately explode. Children can step on them\u2026 That\u2019s the line we should not cross,\u201d<\/strong> Lee asserted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The White House stated on Friday that it will provide the weapons to Ukraine after denouncing Russia\u2019s use of them only last year, claiming that using the explosives against civilian targets might constitute a \u201cwar crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Congress placed significant limitations on exporting cluster bombs to foreign states in 2010, Biden was compelled by U.S. law to obtain a special clearance to send them to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><strong>\u201cI think the president\u2019s been doing a good job managing\u2026 Putin\u2019s aggressive war against Ukraine, but I think that this should not happen,\u201d<\/strong> Lee continued. <strong>\u201c[Biden] had to ask for a waiver under the Foreign Assistance Act just to do it because we have been preventing the use of cluster bombs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lee was one of 19 House Democrats who signed a letter on Friday condemning Biden\u2019s decision as \u201ccontrary to Congress\u2019s restrictions on the transfer of these weapons and severely undermines our moral leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><strong>\u201cWe can and will continue to support our Ukrainian allies\u2019 defense against Russia\u2019s aggression,\u201d<\/strong> the group wrote. <strong>\u201cHowever, that support does not require we undermine the United States\u2019 leadership in advocating for human rights around the world, enable indiscriminate harm that will only further endanger Ukrainian civilians or distance us from European partners in the conflict who are signatories to the UN Convention opposing cluster munitions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When asked why Biden chose to send cluster munitions to Kyiv as the war reaches 500 days, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told the press that the move was intended to help Ukraine strengthen its ongoing counteroffensive, which \u201cin some ways is not moving as fast as [Ukrainian] President [Volodymyr] Zelensky would like.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><strong>\u201cThey are using artillery at a very accelerated rate, as many 1,000\u2019s of rounds per day,\u201d<\/strong> Kirby said. <strong>\u201cThis is literally a gunfight all along from the Donbas all the way down toward Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, and so they\u2019re running out of inventory.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kirby stated that the U.S. military sector is \u201ctrying to ramp up\u201d production of the most often used howitzer artillery rounds in Ukraine, but that the rate \u201cis still not where we want it to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><strong>\u201cSo we\u2019re going to extend these additional artillery shells that have cluster bomblets in them to help bridge the gap as we ramp up production of normal 155mm artillery shells,\u201d<\/strong> he maintained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Kirby also claimed that the White House is \u201cvery mindful of concerns about civilian casualties and unexploded ordnance being picked up by civilians\u201d and that the U.S. will \u201cfocus with Ukraine on de-mining efforts\u201d to prevent the submunitions from causing harm to the population.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><strong>\u201cThese munitions do provide a useful battlefield capability,\u201d<\/strong> Kirby said. <strong>\u201cI will remind that, while Russia is using them in Ukraine in an aggressive war on another country and indiscriminately killing civilians, the Ukrainians will be using these cluster munitions obviously \u2026 To defend their own territory, hitting Russian positions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><strong>\u201cAnd I think we can all agree that more civilians have been and will continue to be killed by Russian forces\u2014whether it\u2019s cluster munitions, drones, missile attacks, or just frontal assaults\u2014than will likely be hurt by the use of these cluster munitions fired at Russian positions inside Ukraine,\u201d<\/strong> Kirby continued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kirby repeated National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan\u2019s comments from Friday, inferring that the American cluster bombs the U.S. wants to deliver have a much lower \u201cdud rate,\u201d or rate of unexploded ordnance, than those employed by Russia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><strong>\u201cRussia has been using cluster munitions with high dud or failure rates of between 30 and 40 percent,\u201d<\/strong> Sullivan told reporters at the White House on Friday\u2026 The cluster munitions that we would provide have dud rates far below what Russia [has] \u2026 [and are] not higher than 2.5 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AppropsDems?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AppropsDems<\/a> State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, which I chaired, has restricted transfer of cluster bombs for years because of the harm they cause to civilians\u2014and as a consequence, to US efforts to defend human rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. 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