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France Dispatches More Troops to Ivory Coast [ROFLMAO!]
(Reuters ^ | Nov. 6, 2004

Posted on 11/06/2004 6:35:52 PM PST by conservativecorner

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To: 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?
21 posted on 11/06/2004 6:45:46 PM PST by conservativecorner
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To: cherry

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


22 posted on 11/06/2004 6:47:06 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel ("We are entering a new season of hope."-George W. Bush, Nov. 3rd, 2004)
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To: conservativecorner
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.

23 posted on 11/06/2004 6:47:50 PM PST by xJones
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To: conservativecorner

france surrenders...film at 11


24 posted on 11/06/2004 6:49:31 PM PST by freddiedavis
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To: conservativecorner

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?


25 posted on 11/06/2004 6:49:50 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: muawiyah
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).
26 posted on 11/06/2004 6:50:12 PM PST by JasonC
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To: conservativecorner

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


27 posted on 11/06/2004 6:50:19 PM PST by Slump Tester (John Kerry - When even your best still isn't good enough)
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To: cherry
animalists?

Animists - animus,i = mind,soul

28 posted on 11/06/2004 6:51:59 PM PST by Peelod (Perversion is not festive)
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To: conservativecorner

Lets hope the Africans cut the French to pieces.


29 posted on 11/06/2004 6:52:21 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (Secure our Supreme Court! The Thirty year wait is nearly over.)
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To: lilylangtree
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.
30 posted on 11/06/2004 6:52:34 PM PST by JasonC
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To: lonestar67

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.


31 posted on 11/06/2004 6:52:34 PM PST by Wiz
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To: xJones
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!

32 posted on 11/06/2004 6:53:02 PM PST by CAluvdubya (From the RED part of California)
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To: dc-zoo

Quagmire! Quagmire!

Ivory Coast is France's Vietnam!

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


33 posted on 11/06/2004 6:53:03 PM PST by gridlock (FOUR MORE YEARS!!!! FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!)
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To: JasonC

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


34 posted on 11/06/2004 6:54:44 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: gridlock
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.
35 posted on 11/06/2004 6:58:16 PM PST by cripplecreek (John Kerry was beaten like a rented mule)
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To: Keith in Iowa
Do the Frogs have a UN Security Council mandate to do this??

My question, too?

36 posted on 11/06/2004 6:59:39 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: conservativecorner

Sounds like a quagmire.


37 posted on 11/06/2004 7:00:57 PM PST by jgorris
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To: muawiyah
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.
38 posted on 11/06/2004 7:01:26 PM PST by CFC__VRWC (It's not evidence of wrongdoing just because Democrats don't like the outcome.)
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To: conservativecorner

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.


39 posted on 11/06/2004 7:02:09 PM PST by 101viking
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To: conservativecorner
"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure"
-Jacques Chirac, President of France
40 posted on 11/06/2004 7:02:12 PM PST by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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