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Canada troops offered to Congo force
Toronto Sun ^ | may 23/2003 | STEPHANIE RUBEC, OTTAWA BUREAU

Posted on 05/23/2003 5:06:22 AM PDT by ruready4eternity

Prime Minister Jean Chretien yesterday committed the Canadian Forces to an emergency UN military mission in war-torn Congo,Chretien said Canada will help staff a 1,000-strong UN military force to uphold a ceasefire in the central African nation's bloody ethnic war

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; congo

1 posted on 05/23/2003 5:06:22 AM PDT by ruready4eternity
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To: ruready4eternity
Canada has finally found a cause worthy of its Lilliputian sized military. Peacekeeping a civil war zone in Africa.
2 posted on 05/23/2003 5:07:30 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: ruready4eternity
Amazing article. France & Congo? Prime Minister =French.
This is a sick S.O.B

I cant believe this guy is running my country. Please put the pressure on His government. He would help the U.S but sure will help the french.
3 posted on 05/23/2003 5:08:00 AM PDT by ruready4eternity
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To: ruready4eternity
Wrong country. I believe the historic Congo was a colony of Belgium.
4 posted on 05/23/2003 5:09:10 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: ruready4eternity
Are they going to let them be armed? They didn't in Afghanistan.
5 posted on 05/23/2003 5:12:57 AM PDT by FreePaul
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This is clearly a European play. Guess Chretien thinks of himself as a European, not North American.
6 posted on 05/23/2003 5:14:42 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: FreePaul
Canada has a glorified police force, not an army. Its navy is little more than a coast guard. As for the air force, I doubt its big enough to police the entire country, not that Canada has any real enemies to worry about.
7 posted on 05/23/2003 5:14:48 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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Canada is mixed in with the enemy...U cant seprate them like the wheat & Chaff...
8 posted on 05/23/2003 5:16:44 AM PDT by ruready4eternity
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To: ruready4eternity
Canada troops offered to Congo force

The other white meat?

9 posted on 05/23/2003 5:27:40 AM PDT by tbpiper
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LMAO! I don't want to know if they'll become human pork chops for the local cannibal element... <shudder
10 posted on 05/23/2003 5:29:37 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: ruready4eternity
Are they going to ask us for a ride, like they did in Afghanistan.
11 posted on 05/23/2003 5:36:58 AM PDT by aynrandfreak
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To: ruready4eternity
Ummmmmmmmmmm...Canadians
12 posted on 05/23/2003 5:48:02 AM PDT by ditto h
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To: ruready4eternity
Canadians and French vs Pygmies?

Kind of says it all.

You go get 'em big boys!

While your at it the UN needs guards in "your" cafeteria.

13 posted on 05/23/2003 5:58:36 AM PDT by G.Mason (Lessons of life need not be fatal)
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To: ruready4eternity
Amazing article. France & Congo? Prime Minister =French. This is a sick S.O.B

Now France will pull their troops out leaving Canada there alone. It's very funny except for the poor Canadian lads who will be hung out in the Congo.

14 posted on 05/24/2003 4:27:02 PM PDT by RJL
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To: goldstategop
... historic Congo was a colony of Belgium.

More accurately, the country formerly known as the Belgian Congo was the personal property of the king of Belgium.

Ergo, it really wasn't run as a "colony" per se.

15 posted on 05/24/2003 4:35:12 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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