French Snipers gunning down civilians in the Ivory Coast.

**Memnoch1207** · Nov 23rd, 2004, 09:27 AM

Here's the link to the videos

Seems odd that the slaughtering of civilians by a European nation gets no press.

**CORONA BEER** · Nov 23rd, 2004, 09:42 AM

The media dosent care about dead civilians. That's bad business.
good video though

**DeadEyes** · Nov 23rd, 2004, 10:13 AM

Freedom Snipers

**Xanith** · Nov 23rd, 2004, 04:29 PM

So now the French are killing innocent civilians in the Ivory Coast with troops they deployed without UN approval in a sovereign nation? In light of their stance with the recent situation with Iraq I think the height of hypocrisy comes to mind. As for why its not getting any press? My only guess is we only like to knock off those who are on top, had this been the US it would have made every paper across the globe. I can see the headlines now, "Evil Imperialistic US troops assassinating innocent civilians in the Ivory Coast!” and people marching in the streets chanting “No Blood for Cocoa”!

X

**nemaroller** · Nov 23rd, 2004, 07:12 PM

I thought you all knew the French like American things... even American foreign policy ideas. I think you should take it as a complement.

**dglienna** · Nov 24th, 2004, 12:50 AM

Jeez! I clicked on one before I noticed that it was 37 Megs. I cancelled it, though. .jpg's were pretty bad. not worth it.

**DeadEyes** · Nov 24th, 2004, 04:07 AM

Xanith, the French are in the Ivory Coast under a U.N. mandated mission.

**demotivater** · Nov 24th, 2004, 02:39 PM

Even more ironic.

**Shaggy Hiker** · Nov 25th, 2004, 04:10 PM

Africa is seen as the mess created by European and American actions for the last few centuries. Each country has some colonial ties, and the country that did the damage is still expected to clean things up. Fact of life.

**wossname** · Nov 29th, 2004, 05:26 AM

The french have to maintain hey cowardly surrender-monkey reputation sonehow. Blowing away joe public is a great and moreover safe way to do so.

They could probably be repelled by a kid with a catapult.

**yrwyddfa** · Nov 29th, 2004, 08:45 AM

Originally posted by Xanith
So now the French are killing innocent civilians in the Ivory Coast with troops they deployed without UN approval in a sovereign nation? In light of their stance with the recent situation with Iraq I think the height of hypocrisy comes to mind. As for why its not getting any press? My only guess is we only like to knock off those who are on top, had this been the US it would have made every paper across the globe. I can see the headlines now, "Evil Imperialistic US troops assassinating innocent civilians in the Ivory Coast!” and people marching in the streets chanting “No Blood for Cocoa”!

X

You support the pre-emptive depolyment of troops without UN approval in a sovereign nation.

So one must assume that your problem isn't with the deployment, nor even the murder of innocent civilians. Rather one has to conclude that you only have a problem with the level of press coverage.

**yrwyddfa** · Nov 29th, 2004, 08:47 AM

Originally posted by wossname
The french have to maintain hey cowardly surrender-monkey reputation sonehow. Blowing away joe public is a great and moreover safe way to do so.

They could probably be repelled by a kid with a catapult.

Google 'French Military Victories'

**mudfish** · Nov 29th, 2004, 09:00 AM

Originally posted by yrwyddfa
Google 'French Military Victories'

french military victories
... No standard web pages containing all your search terms were found. Your search -
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

**yrwyddfa** · Nov 29th, 2004, 09:02 AM

Follow the link for the first entry . . .

**mudfish** · Nov 29th, 2004, 09:04 AM

**Xanith** · Nov 29th, 2004, 09:29 AM

Originally posted by DeadEyes
Xanith, the French are in the Ivory Coast under a U.N. mandated mission.

Yeah its supported by the UN Security Council, the EU, and the US. But doesn't this seem like Imperialism at its worst? France supporting a corrupt government then trying to reassert control over a former colony when the people want something different. The same people up in arms over the Iraq situation should be equally outraged here.

X

**yrwyddfa** · Nov 29th, 2004, 09:38 AM

I suspect they are equally outraged.

The only difference here is that there is no-one hanging around trying to purport that this is the morally 'right' thing to be doing . . .

**DeadEyes** · Nov 29th, 2004, 09:55 AM

Originally posted by Xanith
Yeah its supported by the UN Security Council, the EU, and the US. But doesn't this seem like Imperialism at its worst? France supporting a corrupt government then trying to reassert control over a former colony when the people want something different. The same people up in arms over the Iraq situation should be equally outraged here.

X

As the original post bemoaned there is not much press coverage of the situation but as I understand it, it goes something like this:
The Ivory Coast was doing well, a model for the rest of Africa.
A civil war erupted (don't know why).
France went in to restore peace, and did so.
The U.N. came on board.
An air force jet bombed the French killing ten including an American.
The French responded by wiping out the entire air force.
Anti-foreigner riots ensued.
Resulting in civilians getting shot.

Now if this is accurate the air force jets would be government ones, so they are not really supporting them are they? and I don't think they are trying to gain control over the country again. but the true objectives of countries are hard to discern; does the Ivory Coast have oil?

**wossname** · Nov 29th, 2004, 01:38 PM

Rofl...

**timeshifter** · Nov 29th, 2004, 01:51 PM

Think that's good? Check this!

**NotLKH** · Nov 29th, 2004, 05:30 PM

Hmmm,

Apparently, the French Military have failed more than they've been defeated.

**NotLKH** · Nov 29th, 2004, 05:45 PM

lol!
The French Military Lost Again

**NotLKH** · Nov 29th, 2004, 05:47 PM

AhhHA!

The French Has No Military

**Shaggy Hiker** · Nov 29th, 2004, 06:27 PM

There once was a time when they did a bit better than that. As for now: Nobody copies the French, and the French copy nobody.

**yrwyddfa** · Nov 30th, 2004, 03:37 AM

I have to concede their wine's quite nice (even though it comes from California grapes at the the turn of the last century - most of it anyway)

**davebat** · Nov 30th, 2004, 06:58 AM

and their foods good too

**yrwyddfa** · Nov 30th, 2004, 07:03 AM

. . . if you like frogs, and horses . . .

**timeshifter** · Nov 30th, 2004, 11:24 AM

Check this!

**timeshifter** · Nov 30th, 2004, 11:26 AM

Change one word, and....

**timeshifter** · Nov 30th, 2004, 11:30 AM

Or even better:

**dglienna** · Nov 30th, 2004, 09:30 PM

try enclosing them in quotes

**timeshifter** · Dec 1st, 2004, 11:23 AM

Originally posted by dglienna
try enclosing them in quotes

Alright, then.

**dglienna** · Dec 1st, 2004, 08:12 PM

So, then nobody has posted it. Ever!

**timeshifter** · Dec 2nd, 2004, 12:45 PM

No one has posted your picture, thank god...

But clearly no one has posted that France has no technology...

I wonder why not?

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