[cardinal4]

Well, with all the minerals in CAR, maybe the French can recoup their losses in Iraq. Naw, they would have to fight for them...

[Desecrated]

Did the French pass a UN resolution legitimizing this troop movement?

Didn't think so.

[MadIvan]

You got UN authorisation for that, Jacques?

Regards, Ivan

[dead]

Meanwhile, officials at the Bangui airport said a French military plane had evacuated at least 60 French nationals from the country, while a French Defense Ministry spokesman said in Paris that as many as 130 people may have left.

Apparently, the only cause the French will fight for is the right to run away.

[Redcloak]

How dare the French rush to war in the Central African Republic!! They must first seek the support of the UN Security Council. Anything else would be naked imperialism!!

All together now... NO BLOOD FOR URANIUM! NO BLOOD FOR URANIUM!

</sarcasm>

[Earl B.]

This is parody, right? Ha ha!

[error99]

"...Meanwhile, the United Nations and the African Union strongly condemned the takeover..."
W-o-o-o-o-o-o
I'll bet the rebels are just shaking in their boots !
They had better watch out !
The U.N. might "pass a resolution".
And THEN where will they be?
</sarcasm>

(Passing a resolution does not necessarily mean that you are resolute.)

[Mark]

THE BUNNY AND THE SNAKE

Once upon a time in a nice little forest, there lived
an orphaned bunny and an orphaned snake. By a
surprising coincidence, both were blind from birth.


One day, the bunny was hopping through the forest, and
the snake was slithering through the forest, when the
bunny tripped over the snake and fell down. This, of
course, knocked the snake about quite a bit. "Oh, my,"
said the bunny, "I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to
hurt you.


I've been blind since birth, so, I can't see where I'm
going. In fact, since I'm also an orphan, I don't even
know what I am."


"It's quite OK," replied the snake. "Actually, my
story is much the same as yours. I, too, have been
blind since birth, and also never knew my mother. Tell
you what, maybe I could slither all over you, and work
out what you are, so at least you'll have that going
for you."


"Oh, that would be wonderful" replied the bunny. So
the snake slithered all over the bunny, and said,
"Well, you're covered with soft fur; you have really
long ears; your nose twitches; and you have a soft
cottony tail. I'd say that you must be a bunny
rabbit."


"Oh, thank you! Thank you," cried the bunny, in
obvious excitement. The bunny suggested to the snake,
"Maybe I could feel you all over with my paw, and help
you the same way that you've helped me."


So the bunny felt the snake all over, and remarked,
"Well, you're smooth, scaly, and slippery, and you
have a forked tongue, no backbone and no testacles.


I'd say you are definitely French".

[blam]

"Meanwhile, the United Nations and the African Union strongly condemned the takeover."

LOL!

[Earl B.]

Meanwhile, the United Nations and the African Union strongly condemned the takeover.

A statement from U.N. Secretary-general Kofi Annan called for ``the speedy restoration of the constitutional order and for the respect and protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms.''

This sounds like a job for the United Nations Security Council! We need a speedy resolution, calling for immediate compliance and incompetent monitoring teams. But the new government needs to know that under no circumstance will the French condone an actual solution to the problem.

[Porterville]

Gotta find new buyers for their arms now that Iraq is gone.

[FryingPan101]

"Meanwhile, the United Nations and the African Union strongly condemned the takeover."

Loonies.

[ErnBatavia]

as French troops evacuated

Where have I read this sort of thing before?

[San Jacinto]

A statement from U.N. Secretary-general Kofi Annan called for ``the speedy restoration of the constitutional order and for the respect and protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms.''

Thank goodness. That will make it all better.

[genefromjersey]

Non, non, non !

La Belle France should not rush in like some sort of Comme se dit il ? Ah ! Like some sort of "Cowboy Americaine " !

This requires study , contemplation , long, thoughtful debates in le Council Securite .

Perhaps, ummm....
Perhaps we could bring it up in the 2005 General Assembly...

Meanwhile ? Courage mes infants !!

[leilani]

Too funny. Wonder if this will get covered by the BBC.Then again they have too much invested in Monsieur Petain, I mean, Chirac.

[Semper Paratus]

Thier intervention in the Ivory Coast was a cock-up might as well try to hit the daily-double.

[Beck_isright]

I'm worried for those troops; there's a village there called Dien Bien Booty.