At least we all have our freedom to express what we think. Unfortunately most British politicians including the PM don't. They have to be seen to be supporting the US irregardless of the facts or what they truely think

Fred, London,

Where is some modicum of balance? Where was accusatory reporting by the Times when NATO dropped huge loads of depleted uranium cluster bombs on civilians all over Serbia, including the marketplace in Nis, in 1999, and kept doing it for 78 days? NATO then said cluster bombs were "legal".

Jason Masson, Geneva, CH

Please don't forget that it was US/Israel-backed Georgia attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure in South Ossetia late on 7 August 2008 that kicked this thing off.
Where is the evidence that Russia is responsible for the use of cluster bombs?
Georgia was accused of the same two days ago.

Chris, London,

What does it matter that cluster bombs were used? If the plane that dropped them was not carrying them it would have been carrying something else just as deadly. All bombs are indiscriminate once dropped, they dont sudently realise they are about to fall on innocent civilians and stop mid-air.

Phil Mann, Newcastle upon Tyne,

Andrew, Los Angeles
I think you are not in a position to judge.

Vit, Moscow, Russia

I fear any US organisation is now so tainted that even if it is telling the truth, it won't be believed by many outside the US - nor by a sizeable number inside.

Marco, KrakOw, Poland

Matt,Bhm,of course Ossetian lives are cheaper-they're on the 'wrong side'-same old story.I'm sure you too have noticed the way most of the West. media and West. commenters speak as if no Ossetians had died...until the West realises that human life has a value beyond 'sides', there'll be no peace.

Marco, Krakow, Poland

All this could be stopped, avoided by sending the EuroWeenies to talk to Russia as all we need is more diplomacy just like what the EuroWeenies accomplished with Iran. Two years criticising Bush, four years of the EuroWeenies talking to Iran which accomplished nothing but no criticism of the EU.

Pal I, Orlando FL, USA

What more evidence do we need? Russia is not a country to trust, to partner with or to respect. If it acting like this while is economy is still only one tenth the size of that of the U.S., what can we expect once it has closed the gap further. They must be contained.

Jack, London, UK

Does this mean the US will also sign that deal banning cluster bombs? or just continue sell/give to Israel to use against Lebanese? Is this human rights group getting any funding from US govt or proxy sources?

Liam Jones, Adelaide, Australia

We have used cluster bombs in Iraq. The Americans have used white phosphorus in Afghanistan.

That isn't a justification for Russia's use of the munitions but, as we rush to condemn them, lets remember that we're just as bad ourselves.

Tikhon Savrasov, london,

Please mention, in the spirit of balance, that Georgian forces initiated the war with an attack on Tskhinvali which, according to HRW, utilised GRAD rocket launchers "weapons that should not be used in areas populated by civilians" due to their "indiscriminate" nature. Or are Ossetian lives cheaper?

Matt, Birmingham, UK

Butchers of Chechnya on "Peace Keeping Mission" in Georgia?
Result is more than obvious.

Andrew, Los Angeles,