RE: Atrocities in Iraq

In fact, the military's nomenclature doesn't use the term "cluster bombs" to refer these devices. Rather there are Combined Effect Munitions (CEMs) or Combined Effect Bombs (CEBs). (And in a perfect example of bureaucratese, the "bomblets" that these devices disperse are called "submunitions").

So why is Massey referring to them as ICBMs? As with the commander issue, Massey seems to be exagerrating and extending what he does know to fit what he think his interviewer wants to hear (and, oddly, his February interview with some local reporter is far less incendiary than his May interview with the Paul Rockwell who is a prominent anti-war activist. (And why doesn't the Sacramento Bee tell us that Rockwell is an active anti-war activist? Since this is presented as straight news, they should have disclosed that).