Land Mines and the U.S.

[Thirteen]

i just found this little tidbit of info interesting and kind of disturbing:

As of September 2004, 143 countries had ratified or acceded to the antipersonnel mine-ban treaty. These include:

Every country in the Americas except Cuba, Haiti and the United States.

Every member of the European Union except Finland, Latvia and Poland.

All sub-Saharan African countries except Somalia.

http://www.stoplandmines.org/slm/index.html

[white Boy]

mines is some scary shit

[Thirteen]

yep, they can stay around for decades after they've been planted...i couldn't imagine just walking through a place then all of a sudden i'm on the ground looking at my legs or worse

[Don Rizzle]

yesterday 2 children were killed in iraq by american landmines