[Asclepius]

Annan has repeatedly called on the 15-nation Security Council to quickly approve the mission to give a boost to a region weakened by conflict in nearby Sierra Leone and neighboring Liberia as well as Ivory Coast.

Brilliant. We should use our veto power to frustrate every design of our French brothers and sisters in particular, and the UN in general. And we should all drink more Australian wine and have lots of lots of sex.

[judicial meanz]

Other envoys, however, say the U.S. move has irritated Paris by denting hopes the new mission would help it gradually extricate itself from the Ivory Coast, its former colony

In other words, the French want to surrender and leave, and stick the US with the conflict. Washington realizes this and is extracting some very needed payback from the French hide. My heart friggin bleeds.

[xm177e2]

The French caused this mess by backing the Rebels, who then broke the ceasefire and now everything is going to hell. And the French want to walk out and let other nations pick up the bill for their failure.

Would you imagine the French just letting us walk out of Iraq without rebuilding it?

[Beck_isright]

But the former Frog colonies are doing so well on their own. </barfing brie cheese sarcasm off

[InterceptPoint]

How do you spell PAYBACK TIME?

[cynicom]

Let annan and france swing.

[river rat]

Well now....

The French will simply have to learn how to stop their own arterial bleeding....

Because I believe the future holds some opportunities for them to bleed ---- profusely...

Semper Fi

[bart99]

But there are 3,000 French troops there.... why would kofi think another 150 to 300 would matter?

I think we oughta just use a magic marker and write VETO in big large letters and leave it on our table at the Security council. *s*

[Dark Wing]

Payback is a bitch.

[Faraday]

All significant UN action (peacekeeping, conferences, etc.) requires periodic approval by the security council. Let's start turning off the lights of this foul organization--one veto at a time.

[montag813]

More than 3,000 French troops are currently policing a cease-fire there under a peace deal brokered by Paris.

Good. Let them finally deal with their own quagmires, instead of leaving their messes to others, as they did to us with "IndoChina" (Vietnam and Cambodia and 50,000 U.S. dead).

Look at the worst 3rd world cesspools around the world and see who were the colonial masters...the French. Unlike the Brits the French left wholesale misery, poverty and murderous dictatorships in their wake.

Filthy French bastards.

[sarasmom]

I have been half-way following this conflict.
The French are trying to set up another Islamic base, over the bodies of a lot of dead Christian people, who happen to be black, and happen to have vast quantities of a commodity the French, and Belgium, wish to controll.
If I were proficient at retrieveing threads, I would post one now showing a group of Christian Ivory Coaster's begging the USA to intervene militarily against the French.
Will we, and the rest of the world, stand back and watch another African genocidal massacre orchestrated by the French?