Pepe Le Pew
Posted on 11/10/2004 12:16:03 PM PST by bedolido
French citizens have queued at Ivory Coast's main airport to flee their former West African colony as violent anti-French protesters massed for a fifth day in support of President Laurent Gbagbo.
"I don't have a job anymore or a house ... . They took the bath, the furniture and electrical wires, everything," Bruno Regis, a teacher from a French school that was razed, said on Wednesday.
"The way it ended here, I wouldn't come back here even if they offered me a new job," he said at the airport, where he was waiting for a flight with his wife and three small children.
More than 2000 French and foreign nationals have been sheltering in French and UN bases in the main city of Abidjan, chased from their homes by anti-French mobs. At least 30 demonstrators have been killed and about 1000 injured since Saturday.
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Pepe Le Pew
It is offical... The surrender monkeys have come out of hidding and are starting to eat their cheese! :)
Understand that Chirac called Bush about 2 days ago congratulating him on being re-elected. Now I read this a.m. that the US is helping in the evacuation. Chirac is doing the weaselly thing again--getting the US to get his a** out of the fire.
The French doing what the French do best...surrendering.
Where did u read that we are helping with the evacuation?
Hmm, Anti-French protestors?
Sounds like a good thing.
French: we flee nations
Have they surrendered yet?
Sorry! I stand corrected. This a.m. I just glanced in passing at the headlines online at MSNBC.com and read France and US. Started grumbling at the headlines. However, after your question, I searched & located the headlines just now and it reads France and UN. Sorry!
Q. How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?
A. No one knows, they've never tried it.
F lee
R etreat
E vacuate
N egotiate
C ower
H ide
As it was said in Mont Python:
"Run away , Run AWAAAAY!"
"They took the bath, the furniture and electrical wires, everything," Bruno Regis, a teacher from a French school that was razed, said"
Like, what would this guy care if they took his bath?
I believe we have some troops that are stationed there. I don't see the Navy pulling in.
I have a question... how much chocolate do you think will fit in a diplomatic bag?
perhaps a form of poetic justice that france is being forced to become familiar with this kind of geopolitical and cultural volatility, the result of their own stubborness and arrogance.
in this case, their presence has nothing to do with the freedom or "rights" of a people, or of their own national security (france), but merely involves their own colonial interests. how noble an empire it is!
Cocoa for food will solve the problem. Pay off the French!
Mon dieu! Sacre Bleu! Le 23 Skiddooo!
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