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2003-08-22 Africa: West

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-08-22 00:35|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm amazed: 1) the SA troops pulled the trigger -- good on them 2) the SA troops are seen as "bigger and tougher" than the French. That's a wet fish across the face of Chirac!

Let's hope the SA troops really do drop the hammer on each and every ~~idiot~~ milita thug that brutalizes civilians.

Posted by Steve White 2003-8-22 12:39:51 AM|| 2003-8-22 12:39:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Then they'll be accused of Human Rights violations, be sued in a foreign court room of a 3rd-world country, and recieve condemnation from the UN for shooting someone dead who had killed half a dozen people a week ago.

Anybody want to visit Belguim?

Posted by Charles 2003-8-22 1:57:53 AM|| 2003-8-22 1:57:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Wasn't there a story a while ago that SA troops couldn't shoot straight because they were depressed? Or something like that. Nothing like a field trip to cure what ails you.

Posted by Raphael 2003-8-22 7:55:41 AM|| 2003-8-22 7:55:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 SA is on the continent and probably can
summon more sense of national interest in
African peace-keeping/peach-making missions.
Don't know how good their forces are after
Apartheid though?

Posted by J.H. 2003-8-22 11:18:52 AM|| 2003-8-22 11:18:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Wait, let me get this straight........the UN actually let a peacekeeper put a bullet in a weapon...........and shoot it............at someone......

My gosh, what is the world coming to, Oh the Horror, the humanity!!

Will the UN convene a committee to investigate this tragic loss of life, this senseless violence, this violation of lunatic fringe hatefulled nut job sovreignty???

And to top it all off, it was a Frog. Amazing. there was a time when I was in the military, that we all thought the French Foreign Legion was the baddest of the bad@$$es, I mean no one but no one screwed with them. There was a time when the French would have shot first and asked for ID's later....and rebels and insurgents pissed themselves and ran in all directions at the thought of the FL coming to town to restore order.

Now, it is front page news that a French soldier in a UN peacekeeping force cracked off a little AK-47 wielding genetic defect. It should be old news, wave an AK at a blue helmet and you die. Screw with the civilian population with a blue helmet around, notify your next of kin.

The UN has stood around and let some ghastly atrocities happen...."Uh, we're here to keep the peace, not shoot people....Sorry"

THIS is the big reason, the US should NOT let the UN get anywhere near Iraq.

The UN will stand around with their fingers up their butts and let the Baathists and the Terronutjobs blow everything to smithereens and kill anyone that knows where St. Louis is and then say "Boy, the US really made a mess of this, we're leaving....." and then the Baathists return and it is business as usual. Iraqi Oil for Food money lining French, German and Russian pockets and Kofi Annan's pockets.

Posted by SOG475 2003-8-22 8:54:53 PM|| 2003-8-22 8:54:53 PM|| Front Page Top

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