Posted on 08/18/2006 5:02:03 AM PDT by Clive
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Color me shocked (NOT).
You just got to hand it to the French - they know how to sip wine and live the good life while letting others do the dirty work and pay the bills.
Pah!!!!
Hey France and the UN, What finger am I holding up right now?
Israel is a member of the UN. Let them commit the troops.
The UN just ain't gettin' no respect!!
When the truth is finally known, I bet we will find out that France pulled a fast one on us. They promised 5,000 troops so the US would co-sponsor and approve the ceasefire resolution. Once the ceasefire was approved, they then backed out of their commitment.
Yep Bush never learns
First Teddy over for popcorn and on and on and on
"Israel is a member of the UN. Let them commit the troops."
Bravo, and I am sure that Israel could do the job right too.
"When the truth is finally known, I bet we will find out that France pulled a fast one on us. They promised 5,000 troops so the US would co-sponsor and approve the ceasefire resolution. Once the ceasefire was approved, they then backed out of their commitment."
No doubt you are right and now feckless Condi is too embarrassed to admit that she let this administration get snookered by Chirac in a Middle East crisis - for the second time, so she must spin the results of this fiasco, that by her own objectives was NOT supposed to leave the "status quo ante" in place.
It is time for Bush to give the Sec of State job to Bolton.
Careful. The United Nation's claim that they need troops to patrol southern Lebanon could be used to justify a U.N. demand for its own army, navy and air force.
It will probably come about this way.
The world cries for "peace" in Lebanon. The parties have stopped firing in response to a U. N. resolution but the U.N cannot enforce the peace for lack of troops. The U.N. must depend on member nations for its armed forces. Those troops are not forthcoming - so - the U.N. must be allowed to have its own forces.
Next, a U.N. world income tax to pay for a U.N. Peace Force. Get ready, it's coming.
Hey...Why don't you and Coffee pry your good-for-nothing arses out of you Corinthian leather chairs, push yourselves away from your mahogany tables laden with caviar and foi gras, stuff YOUR sorry, useless butts into blue uniforms and go DO IT YOURSELF you slimy, parasitic leeches?
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Foaming rant /off
Gee, who didn't see this coming...
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