the headline says it all

but perhaps our new president, barack obama WILL indeed reverse this decision and BAN those fuckers (the cluster bombs that is)

111 Nations, Minus the U.S., Agree to Cluster-Bomb Ban

By Kevin Sullivan and Josh White

Washington Post Foreign Service
LONDON, May 28 -- More than 100 countries reached agreement Wednesday to ban cluster bombs, controversial weapons that human rights groups deplore but that the United States, which did not join the ban, calls an integral, legitimate part of its arsenal.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose personal intervention Wednesday led to final agreement among representatives of 111 countries gathered in Dublin, called the ban a "big step forward to make the world a safer place."

In addition to the United States, Russia, China, Israel, India and Pakistan -- all of them major producers or users of the weapons -- did not sign the agreement or participate in the talks.........