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Annan Makes Plea For (U.S.) Troops In Haiti
Washington Post ^ | June 30, 2005 | Colum Lynch

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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To: river rat

DITTO!!!! Let the f'in French take care of this problem; maybe the Luxembourgers and Belgians can also help out..... Hell, why doesn't Coffee ask the EU to send in their...what's it called....the European Strike Force.

Naturally those European countries with troops on the ground in Iraq are exempt. However, for the rest of them...they should be able to handle Haiti....ok, who am I kidding...no they couldn't. ;)


81 posted on 06/30/2005 3:31:59 PM PDT by ut1992 (Army Brat)
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To: riri
"We want scarier troops"

What the U.N. pukes are finally acknowledging --- is that some folks "need killing", and their U.N. forces are too busy raping the children, or packing each others fudge and too undisciplined to be considered a RIGHTEOUS Military Force..

I hear tell there are some bad asses in Venezuela, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Pakistan, etc, etc.... that can kick the shit out of women and children and cut the heads off bound prisoners..

CALL THOSE BASTARDS TO HELP HAITI...

Semper Fi

82 posted on 06/30/2005 3:32:38 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Chode
WE HAITI WAR!!
83 posted on 06/30/2005 4:27:06 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: Airborne1986
The senior NCO on the investigating committee was an old buddy of mine. He told me later that the Haitian cops had been used to extortion and all sorts of general bullying. Then they foolishly threatened the Marines. There were no speeches, no negotiations, no encounter sessions, no position statements, no appeals to reason, Just direct and overwhelming action. And the lesson was learned. That was the effective end of the gangs that were running the streets in Cap Hatien.

If only that lesson was applied more consistantly and widely publized then there would be far fewer incidents throughout the world.

Happy 4th Airborne.

84 posted on 07/01/2005 5:04:37 AM PDT by An Old Marine
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To: television is just wrong
Mr. Annan can send himself.

There must not be any money there.

85 posted on 07/01/2005 5:08:55 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: No Longer Free State

Why does kofi need troops? I thought he and clinton disarmed the good citizens of Haiti????


86 posted on 07/01/2005 5:22:03 AM PDT by BOBWADE
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To: No Longer Free State

If memory serves, Haiti was screwed up in the first place by the French. Should they not be the ones to fix it? Besides, how hard can it be with 6,500 troops to clean up a problem with machete-wielders in a tiny nation like Haiti? Any nation's military that cannot do that has no business calling itself a military.


87 posted on 07/01/2005 5:35:31 AM PDT by Romish_Papist (The times are out of step with the Catholic Church. God Bless Pope Benedict XVI.)
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To: No Longer Free State

Haiti is a former french colony, it is a country that maintains strong social and economic ties to Paris. Therefore, why would it fall onto the US to send troops there and not our "friends" in France? The french have a garrison of 5,000 soldiers in Martinique who should be ready and able to help the situation in Haiti. So Kofi, give your fellow anti-American buddy Jacque a call, I'm sure he'll help (LOL).


88 posted on 07/01/2005 5:44:18 AM PDT by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: Calvin Locke

Port-au-Prince is one of my suggestions for the new home of the UN.

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With a regional office in Darfour (sp?) Sudan.


89 posted on 07/01/2005 6:17:05 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: AppyPappy

No there probably isn't. Haiti is going to continue having unrest. We cannot police the whole world. Maybe Annan ought to sen himself.


90 posted on 07/01/2005 8:16:31 AM PDT by television is just wrong (http://hehttp://print.google.com/print/doc?articleidisblogs.blogspot.com/ (visit blogs, visit ads).)
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To: No Longer Free State

Sounds like the U.N. has itself a quagmire.

I think we should petition the U.N. for an exit strategy...


91 posted on 07/03/2005 3:28:46 AM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: No Longer Free State
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.

I would have an armed challenge as well if if UN bastards were raping my woman and molesting my children more power to those being pillaged by the U.N. !

92 posted on 07/03/2005 3:35:06 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (secus acutulus exspiro ab Acheron bipes actio absol ab Acheron supplico)
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