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Mexico's President Worried About Iraq
mlive.com ^ | May 13, 2004 | Associated Press

Posted on 05/13/2004 2:21:26 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday said he was concerned about the situation in Iraq and wanted the United Nations to play a greater role.

"We would like to see a strong and active presence of the United Nations and with enough capacity to solve this conflict," Fox said during a visit to the Hungarian capital. "Mexico's position at this time is one of worry about what is happening in Iraq."

Though tradition and the constitution prevent Mexico from contributing troops to military operations or peacekeeping efforts, the country is "involved in the search for peaceful solutions to such conflicts," Fox said after meeting Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy.

The Hungarian leader said Budapest was determined to keep its 300 troops in Iraq at least until their mandate expired at the end of 2004, adding that the country was among those "who decidedly stand up to terrorism."

Fox was to visit Poland on Friday, as part of a European trip meant to strengthen political and economic ties.


TOPICS: Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: immigrantlist; iraq; mexico; presidentfox; roachcoach; vicentefox
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Though tradition and the constitution prevent Mexico from contributing troops to military operations or peacekeeping efforts,

Yellow-bellied cowards!

the country is "involved in the search for peaceful solutions to such conflicts," Fox said...

In fact, Fox is undertaking gruelling trips all around the world and he just keeps searching and searching and searching...

1 posted on 05/13/2004 2:21:27 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: DumpsterDiver
Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday said he was concerned about the situation in Iraq and wanted the United Nations to play a greater role.

I know that you don't consider institutional corruption to be a big deal, Vincente, but most of us Americans are rather perturbed about the graft in the Oil-for-Food program.

2 posted on 05/13/2004 2:23:08 PM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
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To: DumpsterDiver
You'll note that there is one nation Fox isn't trying to fix.
3 posted on 05/13/2004 2:23:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: NewRomeTacitus; B4Ranch; gubamyster
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4 posted on 05/13/2004 2:24:31 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: DumpsterDiver
He should worry about his nothern border instead !!
5 posted on 05/13/2004 2:25:04 PM PDT by traumer
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To: DumpsterDiver
He should worry about his northern border instead !!
6 posted on 05/13/2004 2:25:26 PM PDT by traumer
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To: dirtboy
Sounds to me like he's really worried he'll miss out on a piece of the UN's 'action'.
7 posted on 05/13/2004 2:26:25 PM PDT by skeeter
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You'll note that there is one nation Fox isn't trying to fix.

But it's too hard to fix that one. It might require things like actual reform, abolishing corruption, giving up his payments from the drug cartels.... I mean the list just goes on and on! It would really wreck his lifestyle.

8 posted on 05/13/2004 2:29:03 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: DumpsterDiver
All Stations Bulletin - - Be on Southern Weasel Watch
9 posted on 05/13/2004 2:29:53 PM PDT by MN_Mike (In Pelosi, Kerry and the Blow Fish (Kennedy) We Mis-Trust)
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To: *immigrant_list; A Navy Vet; Lion Den Dan; Free the USA; Libertarianize the GOP; madfly; B4Ranch; ..
ping
10 posted on 05/13/2004 2:30:03 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: DumpsterDiver
To Fox: Worry about your own armpit country stupid.
11 posted on 05/13/2004 2:31:41 PM PDT by marty60
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To: DumpsterDiver
And his authority to speak on this matter is ..?
12 posted on 05/13/2004 2:34:20 PM PDT by Junior (Sodomy non sapiens)
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To: DumpsterDiver
Awww, Geee, Vincente. And you gave us how much help with the war?????????
13 posted on 05/13/2004 2:35:57 PM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: DumpsterDiver
Mexico has no interest in Iraq and therefore no opinion.
14 posted on 05/13/2004 2:36:07 PM PDT by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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To: skeeter
Fox is always trying to increase the power of the UN and he desperately wants to be put in charge. He is doing whatever he can using all the pull he's got to destroy US sovreignty.
15 posted on 05/13/2004 2:37:08 PM PDT by FITZ
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To: dirtboy
"We would like to see a strong and active presence of the United Nations and with enough capacity to solve this conflict,"

Strong? Active? Solve conflict? What UN is Fox talking about? He needs to try these words, Corrupt, Hand Wringing, Run Away, to describe the UN the rest of us know. El Foxo must be smoking too much pot.
16 posted on 05/13/2004 2:37:14 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Proudly not proofreading since Jan 1954.)
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You'll note that there is one nation Fox isn't trying to fix.

Mexico's biggest export: Illegals into the US.

Mexico's biggest import: Dollars from illegals exported into the US.
17 posted on 05/13/2004 2:37:43 PM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: DumpsterDiver
Vicente and the Pope could be co-founders of the Glass House Society...
18 posted on 05/13/2004 2:38:25 PM PDT by WestTexasWend
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To: DumpsterDiver
Vicente Fox

He can't even keep his own people home. Maybe he should just stay out of it.

19 posted on 05/13/2004 2:38:27 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: traumer
He should worry about his nothern border instead !!

He is. He's worried they aren't open enough. Meanwhile, last I heard, his southern borders are closed to keep people out.

20 posted on 05/13/2004 2:38:49 PM PDT by barker (Normal people scare me.)
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