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Annan pushes for Ivory Coast mission blocked by US
Reuters ^
| April 29
| Irwin Arieff
Posted on 04/29/2003 5:04:26 PM PDT by ellery
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:04:27 PM PDT
by
ellery
To: ellery
Annan has repeatedly called on the 15-nation Security Council to quickly approve the mission to give a boost to a region weakened by conflict in nearby Sierra Leone and neighboring Liberia as well as Ivory Coast.
Brilliant. We should use
our veto power to frustrate every design of our French brothers and sisters in particular, and the UN in general. And we should all drink more Australian wine and have lots of lots of sex.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:10:37 PM PDT
by
Asclepius
(to the barricades)
To: ellery
Other envoys, however, say the U.S. move has irritated Paris by denting hopes the new mission would help it gradually extricate itself from the Ivory Coast, its former colony In other words, the French want to surrender and leave, and stick the US with the conflict. Washington realizes this and is extracting some very needed payback from the French hide. My heart friggin bleeds.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:18:07 PM PDT
by
judicial meanz
(Audaces Fortuna Juvat)
To: Asclepius
And we should all drink more Australian wine and have lots of lots of sex. Certainly we should find alternatives to French products, but you sound like you are advocating getting stupid drunk and sireing a bunch of children who will suffer from Alcohol Fetal Syndrome.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:19:30 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
To: DannyTN
Certainly we should find alternatives to French products, but you sound like you are advocating getting stupid drunk and sireing a bunch of children who will suffer from Alcohol Fetal Syndrome.
Point taken. Permit me a revision. We should all drink lots of Australian wine
responsibly, say, a glass or two taken with our dinners, and we should all have lots and lots of
responsible sex, between consenting adults, protected if we're not in a long-term relationship and not completely open to the possibility of life etc., etc.
Yikes. That really sucked all the life and the joy out of my exhortation.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:25:42 PM PDT
by
Asclepius
(to the barricades)
To: ellery
The French caused this mess by backing the Rebels, who then broke the ceasefire and now everything is going to hell. And the French want to walk out and let other nations pick up the bill for their failure.
Would you imagine the French just letting us walk out of Iraq without rebuilding it?
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:27:03 PM PDT
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: Asclepius
"Yikes. That really sucked all the life and the joy out of my exhortation. "I'm sorry. I think I liked the original better too.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:32:08 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
To: ellery
But the former Frog colonies are doing so well on their own. </barfing brie cheese sarcasm off
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:33:16 PM PDT
by
Beck_isright
(If a Frenchman and a German farted in the Ardennes, would Belgium surrender?)
To: ellery
How do you spell PAYBACK TIME?
To: xm177e2
Other envoys, however, say the U.S. move has irritated Paris by denting hopes the new mission would help it gradually extricate itself from the Ivory Coast, its former colony.Too bad, France! Now you know how it feels.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:37:20 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(The most hated lair on FR)
To: ellery
Let annan and france swing.
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:37:47 PM PDT
by
cynicom
To: ellery
Well now....
The French will simply have to learn how to stop their own arterial bleeding....
Because I believe the future holds some opportunities for them to bleed ---- profusely...
Semper Fi
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posted on
04/29/2003 5:59:32 PM PDT
by
river rat
(War works......It brings Peace... Give war a chance to destroy Jihadists...)
To: ellery
But there are 3,000 French troops there.... why would kofi think another 150 to 300 would matter?
I think we oughta just use a magic marker and write VETO in big large letters and leave it on our table at the Security council. *s*
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posted on
04/29/2003 7:39:59 PM PDT
by
bart99
To: Thud
Payback is a bitch.
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Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
To: ellery
All significant UN action (peacekeeping, conferences, etc.) requires periodic approval by the security council. Let's start turning off the lights of this foul organization--one veto at a time.
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posted on
04/29/2003 8:19:23 PM PDT
by
Faraday
To: Howlin
1st Iraq. Then the UN. Then France. Then Hollywood. That should about do it.
To: ellery
More than 3,000 French troops are currently policing a cease-fire there under a peace deal brokered by Paris. Good. Let them finally deal with their own quagmires, instead of leaving their messes to others, as they did to us with "IndoChina" (Vietnam and Cambodia and 50,000 U.S. dead).
Look at the worst 3rd world cesspools around the world and see who were the colonial masters...the French. Unlike the Brits the French left wholesale misery, poverty and murderous dictatorships in their wake.
Filthy French bastards.
To: RedBloodedAmerican
The press. Don't forget about them.
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posted on
04/29/2003 8:25:46 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(The most hated lair on FR)
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