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2004-11-07 Africa: Subsaharan

France, under attack in Ivory Coast, mobilizes reinforcements

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Posted by Steve White 2004-11-07 12:58:46 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "French go home!" mmmmm That has a ring to it.

"French go home!" loyalist mobs shouted, as thousands set fire to at least two French schools and tried to storm a French military base, seeking out French civilians as French and Ivory Coast forces briefly traded gunfire.

"Everybody get your Frenchman!" young men screamed to each other, swinging machetes.'(AP)

The Ivory Coast IS Chirac's version of Iraq.
Let's see if the U.N. acts quickly since Chirac gets along so well with Kofi. Are U.N. troops about to be airlifted in to Abidjan.

Hot tip of the weekend: Cocoa beans are going to be a hot (bullish) item, right up there with crude oil when cocoa traders begin buying & selling Monday morning :)

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-11-07 2:09:45 AM|| 2004-11-07 2:09:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Faced with an immense human tide, the French armed forces used 20mm cannon ..."
We stop to contemplate French reactions should 20mm cannon were used in West Bank (or Faluja) against 'peaceful' demonstrators.

Posted by Anonymous6092 2004-11-07 2:50:22 AM|| 2004-11-07 2:50:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Jacques is probably wishing he had a couple of real aircraft carriers at this point...

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2004-11-07 3:10:21 AM|| 2004-11-07 3:10:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Bing!!! We have a winner Anonymous6092.

The next time the "French" and UN tell us how Israel
breaks the conventions of war will we remind them?. I would bet that it was more than one shell and that more than just a few "unarmed civilians" were killed.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-11-07 3:41:24 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-11-07 3:41:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder how soon l'effette chirac is going to call on Monsieur le President Bush to assist in the effort to subdue the Ivory Coast situation.
It seems very fitting for France to be faced with this situation. It is even better that there are 14,000 frenchies right there and l'effette chirac is asking the black dictator to be responsible for them. That's a laugh! since when has a black dictator been responsible for a whitey?
Wait, what was I thinking? I am sure l'effette chirac will wait until after the 18th UN resolution to ask the country for a resolution to decide on a resolution to the situation. These are great times to be alive in the USA

Posted by joecool 2004-11-07 3:49:11 AM|| 2004-11-07 3:49:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 NO BLOOD FOR COCOA BEANS !!!

On a more serious note: has anyone seen anything more enlightening or definitive about this "US national" (aid worker) killed in the attack described above? I havn't found anything yet.

Posted by Mark Z. 2004-11-07 7:02:34 AM|| 2004-11-07 7:02:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I am no friend of the French but...

The black dictator is a French puppet, he'll protect the French citizens if he wants to stay in power. It is not a coincidence that Coup de'Etat is a French word. If not him, they'll get someone else to protect Tota FinaElf profits.

I think the attacks by French on civilians for revenge reasons are probably bullshit, like the Jenin massacre. I'm not really sure how the bridge could not be covered in bodies if 20mm canon were fired at it. I'm guessing some warning shots for dramatic effect. This of course is amplified by those that want the French to look bad just as injuries caused by the US are amplified by the French media.

I'd like the French kicked out of west africa (even better would be if they behaved like a civilized nation in the region but I'm not expecting that to happen any time soon) but I just don't trust this report very much.

Posted by RJ Schwarz 2004-11-07 12:34:38 PM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-11-07 12:34:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 All this goes to prove without doubt that the *SPIT*FRENCH*SPIT* haven't learned a thing since Algeria. They were stupid then, and they're still stupid now. Watch for French to start losing hundreds of men to sniper attacks.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-11-07 1:03:20 PM|| [http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2004-11-07 1:03:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL OP.

Posted by Lucky 2004-11-07 1:11:57 PM|| 2004-11-07 1:11:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 It's le Quagmire, le Quagmire, I tell ya! Let the French get out of their outhouse pit on their own. They will either get smarter, less verbose (0.000001 odds) or they will STFU.

Fred, put up the sympathy meter on this one!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-11-07 1:20:28 PM|| 2004-11-07 1:20:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 We should be asking the French 'where are the tons of missing cocoa beans?'

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-11-07 5:30:00 PM|| 2004-11-07 5:30:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I was listening to NPR in the car this morning and the poor reporters couldn't find anyone to root against so they were forced to report it pretty much down the middle.

It's scary when NPR has to resort to objective, fact-based journalism.

Posted by JDB 2004-11-07 6:33:00 PM|| 2004-11-07 6:33:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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