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==Iraq==

==Iraq==

Amid criticism by the United States continued work on improving the cluster munitions to reduce the dud rate. The United States military began to improve its weapons for its new operation in Iraq. The United States used nearly 10,800 cluster weapons; their British allies used almost 2,200.<ref>http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-12-10-cluster-bomb-cover_x.htm </ref> This time the improvments showed as the new bombs only had a one percent dud rate. The Department of Defense decribed cluster boambs a vital and versatile, but admmited that they are aware of there flaws. In 2007 the Pentagon adopted the Cohan policy, which requires the military to purchase only cluster munintions that have a one percent dud rate or less.<ref>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/01/07/ING2INDCJ91.DTL</ref>

Amid criticism by the United States continued work on improving the cluster munitions to reduce the dud rate. The United States military began to improve its weapons for its new operation in [[Iraq]]. In the [[Iraq War|war]] with Iraq United States used nearly 10,800 cluster weapons; their British allies used almost 2,200.<ref>http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-12-10-cluster-bomb-cover_x.htm </ref> This time the improvments showed as the new bombs only had a one percent dud rate. The [[Department of Defense]] decribed cluster bombs as vital and versatile, but admmited that they are aware of there flaws. In 2007 the Pentagon adopted the Cohan policy, which requires the military to purchase only cluster munintions that have a one percent dud rate or less.<ref>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/01/07/ING2INDCJ91.DTL</ref>

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