Donerail : to quote Mrs Donerail, you disappoint me sometimes. Anyone who really believes the US's Iraq is France's Ivory Coast must be a Fox News watcher with very little knowledge of world matters. The only people I heard who would think that were actual neo-cons Bush-lovers with very little honesty.
France is in IC because and through a UN mandate. It acts only on behalf of the UN, and with strong support from the US, who don't want to do that dirty job themselves (the French army rescued many US families there). The minute it would lose the UN's support, France would pull off. Believe you me, French politicians are way too chicken to do anything abroad without the support of the int'l community. Of course, it was France that went in IC because of our knowledge of the country, because of our ties, and because of our military post there. That's what former colonies do. Same reason the US watches over Philipino politics, Holland keeps an eye on Suriname, and England ... well, England.
The neo-cons and Bush-supporters like to contend that we are there because of the chocolate industry. It's a very easy reasoning for their not-so-refined intellect : France diss the US because they went into IQ for the oil, meanwhile the French do the same in IC for the chocolate. I wanna say : LOL. The cocoa industry is a joke, I'm not even sure France makes the most money out of it (go ask Nestle or Cadbury or General Food), and for each and every ton of cocoa seeds that reach the coasts of France, we get like 10 illegal aliens from IC. Yeah nice deal.
France is in IC because and through a UN mandate. It acts only on behalf of the UN, and with strong support from the US, who don't want to do that dirty job themselves (the French army rescued many US families there). The minute it would lose the UN's support, France would pull off. Believe you me, French politicians are way too chicken to do anything abroad without the support of the int'l community. Of course, it was France that went in IC because of our knowledge of the country, because of our ties, and because of our military post there. That's what former colonies do. Same reason the US watches over Philipino politics, Holland keeps an eye on Suriname, and England ... well, England.
The neo-cons and Bush-supporters like to contend that we are there because of the chocolate industry. It's a very easy reasoning for their not-so-refined intellect : France diss the US because they went into IQ for the oil, meanwhile the French do the same in IC for the chocolate. I wanna say : LOL. The cocoa industry is a joke, I'm not even sure France makes the most money out of it (go ask Nestle or Cadbury or General Food), and for each and every ton of cocoa seeds that reach the coasts of France, we get like 10 illegal aliens from IC. Yeah nice deal.
And what's wrong with our A-400 M again ???
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