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2002-12-23 East/Subsaharan Africa

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Posted by Steve 2002-12-23 12:50 pm|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It also provides an excuse for not providing top line troops anywhere else. "We are committed to peace keeping duites."

Posted by Chuck 2002-12-23 12:38:42|| [www.simmins.org] 2002-12-23 12:38:42|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll put twenty on the Legion...

Posted by Fred 2002-12-23 13:03:46|| 2002-12-23 13:03:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Boy, they sure don't wanna piss off Sgt. Maj. Raskolnikov...

Posted by mojo 2002-12-23 13:38:20|| 2002-12-23 13:38:20|| Front Page Top

#4 French Foreign Legion soldiers crouch behind logs and sandbags, training their anti-tank missiles, rocket launchers and heavy machine guns west â into rebel territory. Nearby is Ivory Coast's Sassandra River: Rebels hoping to advance on the skyscraper-lined commercial capital, Abidjan, must first make it across this silvery, natural barrier. Ivory Coast's own forces retreated Thursday when rebels took Man, a main western city with 135,000-residents. And as the dusty convoys of weary government troops pulled out, the Foreign Legion moved in. Piling up bunkers, they set up a checkpoint 55 miles south of the fallen city. "Between what we have here, and the river, they will not pass," vows Col. Emmanuel Maurin, commander of the French in the west.
"Viva le sacre Legion"

Posted by Steve 2002-12-23 14:08:21|| 2002-12-23 14:08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Four Traits of People whom its best to avoid fighting (whenever possible):

1) all-volunteer units
2) made up entirely of people with nothing to lose
3) who get their greatest sense of honor by dying and losing.
4) whos highest holiday is a celebration of a battle that they lost ( Camerone April 30th).

Posted by Frank Martin 2002-12-23 23:15:21|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2002-12-23 23:15:21|| Front Page Top

#6 People get confused by the French Foreign legion. The first instinct is they'll be pushovers. Their French, they'll surrender. Only when the bodies pile up do they start to understand that they are actually Foreign and not typical cheeze-eating surrender monkeys.

Posted by Anonymous 2002-12-24 09:51:53|| 2002-12-24 09:51:53|| Front Page Top

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