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2002-10-28

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-10-28 06:58 pm|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It'd be a damn fine improvement...

Posted by G 2002-10-28 19:31:03|| 2002-10-28 19:31:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Ole! Use the Mexicans to chase the AIG back to the arms of the Algerian government, and solve Mexico's unemployment problem at the same time. I'm all for it.

Posted by Anonymous 2002-10-28 19:41:43|| 2002-10-28 19:41:43|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder if Presidente Fox would welcome tearing down the 'already porous US-Mexician border' if it meant we could send our marshals, police, and soldiers into the lairs of their corrupt politicos and drug money pits. I suspect there would be a scream about respecting national sovereignty, theirs, not ours.

Posted by Don 2002-10-29 09:35:31|| 2002-10-29 09:35:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Fox is worried about a drop in oil prices, and wants to keep Iraq's wells off the market. France wants to keep buying cut-rate oil from Iraq under the "oil for food" program.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2002-10-29 10:17:20|| 2002-10-29 10:17:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Say, wasn't Mexico once a military colony of France? If I remember, (no, I wasn't there)in 1862 the French Emperor Napoleon III intervened militarily in MÃ©xico: an empire was established from 1864 to 1867, under the Austrian prince Maximilian of Hapsburg.

On the 5th of May 1862, General Ignacio Zaragoza, named Major General of the Army by the government of JuÃ¡rez, obtained victory in the Battle of Puebla against the French.

Should we send this to "Foxy" and remind him that (to paraphrase the Gipper) getting in bed with Chirac may be more than a good night's sleep.

Posted by Anonymous 2002-10-29 10:21:07|| 2002-10-29 10:21:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Damn..I shoulda stayed more alert in Geography...where is that "Mexican border with France"?

Posted by Frank G 2002-10-29 10:59:23|| 2002-10-29 10:59:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Annex Mexico!

Posted by Anonymous 2002-10-29 11:31:51|| 2002-10-29 11:31:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Probably the most venerated holiday in the French Foreign Legion is a result of a battle they lost in Mexico called "Camerone".

Its almost a 'high holy day' to the French.

Posted by Frank Martin 2002-10-29 12:57:11|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2002-10-29 12:57:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Cinco de Mayo will never be the same!

Posted by lockbox 2002-10-29 13:01:49|| 2002-10-29 13:01:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Everyone says this is a US war for oil, but they have it wrong. It is a French/Russian/Mexican non-war for oil.

Come to think of it, its not even a war, its enforcing the peace that came after the last war. The current peace movement movement makes me embarassed to be a pacifist.

Posted by PJ 2002-10-29 13:56:25|| [64.166.70.214/pj/] 2002-10-29 13:56:25|| Front Page Top

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