'Terrible mistake': Top Democrat blasts Biden decision to send Ukraine controversial cluster bombs
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Rep. Betty McCollum warned it was a 'mistake' for President Biden to approve sending Ukraine cluster munitions.
"The legacy of cluster bombs is misery, death, and expensive cleanup generations after their use. The U.S. pays tens of millions of dollars annually to remove cluster munitions in Laos from the Vietnam era as these remnants of war continue to kill and maim civilians." Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital.
The Biden administration announced that its latest aid package to Ukraine would include cluster munitions, bombs that release smaller explosives across a wide area when detonated. Cluster-type bombs have been banned by more than 100 countries because they are known to kill or maim civilians – in many cases, when dud submunitions fall to the ground without exploding but are unexpectedly detonated later, even years after they were dropped.