France Dispatches More Troops to Ivory Coast [ROFLMAO!]

(Reuters ^ | Nov. 6, 2004

[conservativecorner]

How about a battalion of germans to help the frogs? I mean they kicked the frog's a$$es 60 yrs. ago, so who would know how to help the frogs more than the germans?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

This the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time! (New candidate for French Prime Minister Jacques Kerry)

[xJones]

This French unilateral military action, without any U.N. sanction, let alone a debate, has me deeply depressed. Chirac is acting like a first world (white) militant aggressor, and is flagrantly attacking Ivory Coast citizens - and their helicopters.

There's only one thing the U.S. can hope for; that Michael Moore and MoveOn will come to the rescue.

[freddiedavis]

france surrenders...film at 11

[lilylangtree]

Didn't France get booted out of Ivory Coast about 2-3 years ago prior to the Iraqi war? France negotiated a godawful treaty between the govt of Ivory Coast and the rebel faction trying to take control of the nation. The rebel faction under this treaty would get control of the military. The president of the Ivory Coast was pressured to accept this treaty until the people of the nation rose up in protest and France pulled out with their tails between their legs. Or am I thinking of another country?

[JasonC]

You mean the government. The French are protecting the rebels, who are the Muslim extremists in the north. The pro American Christian government in the south is the side the French are now attacking. We should offer to mediate (lol).

[Slump Tester]

Have they started surrender negotiations yet, or will that be another day or two?

[Peelod]

animalists?

Animists - animus,i = mind,soul

[Finalapproach29er]

Lets hope the Africans cut the French to pieces.

[JasonC]

No you have the right country. They tried to award the defense and interior ministries to the Muslims. The government was pressured to go along. The people stopped that, and the government gained ground in the subsequent fighting. So the French and western Africa peacekeepers stpped in to protect the Muslims, and imposed a cease fire. The government went along. Recently, it attacked the rebels in the north and blew up their HQ in an airstrike. The French were livid, and this is their response.

[Wiz]

We need the US Department of State and the government to talk this at the United Nations and tell France not to go ISOLATIONISM without world approval.

[CAluvdubya]

There's only one thing the U.S. can hope for; that Michael Moore and MoveOn will come to the rescue

Wait...Hold the phone! Dont let that transport take off without THE BOSS. They'll need a little kumbaya(sp?) spirit on the trip!

[gridlock]

Quagmire! Quagmire!

Ivory Coast is France's Vietnam!

(of course, Vietnam was France's Vietnam, as well...)

[lilylangtree]

I hope France gets the sh*t kicked out of it. Why was the American there? Peacekeeper? Hope the American wasn't pro-Islamic.

[cripplecreek]

Speaking of Vietnam another great Mel Gibson movie on tonight. "We were soldiers" It played last night, tonight, and will run again tommorow on TNT.

[Sunsong]

Do the Frogs have a UN Security Council mandate to do this??

My question, too?

[jgorris]

Sounds like a quagmire.

[CFC__VRWC]

These rebel forces need (but probably don't "deserve") our support.The rebels are Muslims, and they've been doing what Muslims all over the world have been doing - slaughtering unarmed civilians, beheading hostages, burning churches and synagogues, bringing the burqa and the mutilation of women, etc. It goes without saying which side the french have been supporting.

[101viking]

PARIS (Reuters) - France has ordered more white flags to the Ivory Coast to protect French citizens after nine French soldiers and a U.S. aid worker were killed in a government bombing raid and Ivory Coast troops fired on French forces. French President Jacques Chirac ordered the immediate surrender of all French assets and interests and has ordered that France's seat on the U.N. security council be forfeited as well. In exchange for Chirac's complete surrender of French interests, insurgents have freed a large quantity of wine and cheese captured in earlier raids.

[South40]

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure"
-Jacques Chirac, President of France