1 posted on
11/09/2004 5:47:22 AM PST by
OESY
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To: OESY
2 posted on
11/09/2004 5:48:24 AM PST by
steve8714
(Urban sprawl and citizens' guns will save this country.)
To: OESY
Too bad indeed. . .
Can we just 'back them' and NOT be nice about it?
4 posted on
11/09/2004 5:50:48 AM PST by
cricket
(Don't lose your head. . vote Republican. . .)
To: OESY
Ah, to have the pleasure of witnessing "what goes around comes around."
Mercy bow-cups, Mon-sewers Froggies.
To: OESY
NO MORE FRENCH OCCUPATION!
6 posted on
11/09/2004 5:51:59 AM PST by
Dallas59
("A weak peace is worse than war" - Tacitcus)
To: OESY
The French were enforcing a nearly two-year-old ceasefire between northern Muslim rebels and the Christian-dominated government in Abidjan, on the southern coast. Why are the French "helping" the rebels? Haven't they learned?
8 posted on
11/09/2004 5:56:00 AM PST by
2banana
(They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
To: OESY
Now, let me get this straight, France is backing the REBEL MUSLIMs and bombed the Legitimate Government's air force, meager though it was. That is essentially an act of war. France says it retalliated for the killing of 9 French Peacekeepers and and American aid worker. There was no chance given for explanation from the government. Was it was an accident or deliberate? If deliberate, was it for cause? Were the French acting as Allies of the REBELS? If so, then I am on the side of the Government of Ivory Coast, which, I believe is Christian.....
9 posted on
11/09/2004 5:57:41 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Give someone enough EU-ROPE and they will hang themselves......out of pure frustration......)
To: OESY
Why is the US backing France? Are we locked into an earlier position when France was ostensibly trying to be a peace keeper? It looks like the French are now trying to overthrow the Christian central government in favor of the Muslim rebels. The US should reconsider its support.
10 posted on
11/09/2004 5:57:53 AM PST by
Truth29
To: OESY
Was there a U.N. resolution that permitted France to do this?
To: OESY
The U.S. is firmly backing France in the Ivory Coast. I find this objectionable. The US has no national interests in backing the French when they make war against a smaller country.
France did everything in the Ivory Coast that they said America should not be doing in Iraq. They acted unilaterally, and without the UN's approval. So why is our State Dept. holding France's hand?
The State Dept. may find it tactful, but this would be a perfect opportunity to come down hard on the French as hypocrits.
13 posted on
11/09/2004 6:00:36 AM PST by
Noachian
(A Democrat, by definition, is a Socialist.)
To: OESY
The U.S. is firmly backing France in the Ivory Coast. Why? We should pullout, and make a big scene in doing so.
14 posted on
11/09/2004 6:01:26 AM PST by
JPJones
("We'll cross all our tee's and dot all our.....lower case j's")
To: OESY
Proof positive that we don't want French troops anywhere near Iraq. The French gov't can think its way out of a wet paper bag, much less figure what to do in the rough & tumble world of machete wielding "insurgents".
15 posted on
11/09/2004 6:03:40 AM PST by
pissant
To: OESY
Quagmire!
To: OESY
Messy. Let's all shed alligator tears for the Frogs.
17 posted on
11/09/2004 6:08:18 AM PST by
Kenton
("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
To: OESY
Something rarely heard during these recent debates here and looking all too familiar. France is responsible for the US getting into Vietnam! Their arrogance and blundering stupidity led eventually to US "advisors" coming to their aid. Then once our feet are firmly planted France quietly pulls out.
19 posted on
11/09/2004 6:18:22 AM PST by
chupic
To: OESY
Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.
To: OESY
The WSJ doesn't get it. The French were not there enforcing the peace. They were there helping the Muslim invaders. They were preventing the government from taking back its country. They were acting unilaterally, and they have now deliberately attacked the government of a sovereign nation.
Did the government deliberately kill French troops? We don't know that. They were bombing a rebel stronghold, where French troops were stationed, among their Muslim friends. They had a perfect moral and legal right to do that.
Some of the rebels are rebels. Others are invaders from the north. Ultimately it's just one more instance of Muslims invading black African countries and killing and enslaving the inhabitants. And the French out of sheer greed are fighting on the wrong side.
It's time that the U.S. came to the rescue of black Christians in Africa, who have been savagely persecuted for centuries by Muslim invaders.
22 posted on
11/09/2004 6:22:00 AM PST by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: OESY
The French will never see the Irony here, will they.
Is it time for New York, Chicago and LA to secede from France?
To: OESY
So we 'support' them with words and do absolutely nothing else....bwahahahaha. A more subtle way to say 'up yours' Chirac.
25 posted on
11/09/2004 6:30:20 AM PST by
ml1954
To: OESY
Woo hoo! Rub their noses in it a bit. The sting of the truth is a good thing.
34 posted on
11/09/2004 7:18:58 AM PST by
TChris
(You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.)
To: OESY
I thought it was the heavy Muslim influence in France out to desintegrate the Christian faction in the Ivory Coast
Yeah, Chirac thinks that's "the right thing to do!"
37 posted on
11/09/2004 9:45:55 AM PST by
Paperdoll
(on the cutting edge - our fight has just begun)
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