"Annan, nós estamos aqui!"
Posted on 06/30/2005 12:38:03 PM PDT by No Longer Free State
UNITED NATIONS, June 29 -- United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan asked the United States this week to consider sending troops to Haiti to support a U.N. peacekeeping mission beset by mounting armed challenges to its authority, according to senior U.N. officials.
Annan told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a meeting at U.N. headquarters Tuesday afternoon that he may have to ask for American "boots on the ground" in the coming months to reinforce more than 6,500 Brazilian, Chilean, Argentine and other peacekeeping forces serving in Haiti, the officials said.
He expressed hope that the United States would participate in a planned U.N. rapid reaction force, authorized by the Security Council earlier this month, that would have the firepower to intimidate armed gangs threatening the country's fragile political transition. Officials said that similar requests are being considered for other countries, including Canada and France. "We want scarier troops," one senior U.N. official said.
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Don't blame you there, MadIvan! LOL!!
Send Spain... The speak the language.
They speak the language... oops
"Actually, Annan has been somewhat supportive of the Iraq efforts lately. Maybe he did it to set us up for the request for Haiti."
Supportive? Kofi makes vague remarks about conditions improving in Iraq without mentioning that it is the US, whose actions he opposed, who are responsible for the improvement. This is worse than the UN taking credit for our Tsunami relief.
"HELL NO!!!WE WON'T GO!!!!"
"Annan, nós estamos aqui!"
Screw the U.N. and Haiti...
Haiti was a FRENCH Colony...
The FRENCH screwed it up..
Let the FRENCH spend, lead and bleed to help those sorry bastards...
We've been there, done that --- to NO avail.
Semper Fi
I missed that. Is a U.N. office open in Iraq now?
Are you talking about vocal support from UN Headquarters?
I'd think he's scary enough!
'Cause nobody, but NOBODY, is scared of pastel blue helmets!
When they had Marines there and a bunch of thugs passing themselves off as cops tried to shakdown a mission the Marines did what Marines do. Eight dead gangsters later and the all sorts of rage and protests came from the UN and OAS.
Seems like fighting men who fight are handy when you're in a tough spot.
OK, you're kidding. Right?
Port-au-Prince is one of my suggestions for the new home of the UN.
Relocate the UN to Haiti. They deserve each other
Screw you Koffi !
No so coincidently, the USSR walked out of the Security Council meeting before the vote to intervene in
Korea came up.
I don't think they missed a vote after that.
HELL NO WE DON'T GO!!
Because it would require the entire French army and they are all on leave.
That must have come as a shock to Annan -- the crazy, corrupt bastard...
Too bad our DEMOCRATS don't have equal respect and the good judgment to stop acting like anti-American Jihadists...
I NEVER thought the day would ever come, when I thought there was a distinct possibility that Americans may have to take up arms again against the Federal Government...
That sad day is not impossible....judging from the incidents of the past several months...
Semper Fi
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