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Topic: France: US helping
support Mali operation |
France: US helping
support Mali operation
Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By:BuckeyeRon, 1/13/2013 2:21:44 PM
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| Bamakao, Mali -- France´s foreign minister said Sunday that the United States is providing communications and transport help for an international military intervention aimed at wresting Mali´s north out of the hands of Islamist extremists. Laurent Fabius said the three-day-old, French-led military operation has succeeded in halting the extremists´ advance, which had prompted the intervention. He sought to stress that the operation is gaining international backing, despite concern about the risks of the mission in a stretch of lawless desert in weakly governed country.(Snip) U.S. officials on Saturday said they had offered to send drones to Mali.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
horacer, 1/13/2013 2:28:43 PM (No. 9114426)
I wouldn´t be surprised to see troops on the ground. What a mess.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/13/2013 2:38:41 PM (No. 9114442)
In Obama´s world,you don´t have to declare on on anybody,just go in and start firing drone missiles. Weeeeeeee.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NYBruin, 1/13/2013 2:42:55 PM (No. 9114447)
Can you imagine the squealing from the left if President Bush did this?
He be branded a warmonger & a racist (for killing Africans)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/13/2013 3:02:28 PM (No. 9114475)
Bien sur, Socialist birds of a feather and all that....
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/13/2013 3:05:40 PM (No. 9114477)
Dpa; fat fingers.
an admirable mission, but again with the rule by secret diktat.
It robs him of honor. Again.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
drkillj0y, 1/13/2013 3:21:52 PM (No. 9114489)
France:
US helping support Mali operation.
Will soon be left holding the bag like they did in Viet Nam.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 1/13/2013 3:29:04 PM (No. 9114497)
The "Honest Leftist / Pacifist" crowd has got to be a tad upset about Barky´s immaculate predation. How does the left plan to ever have any credibility on anti-war issues again ?
Wait...I know...
They will shout down the opposition and cram the truth down the memory hole.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 1/13/2013 3:49:04 PM (No. 9114514)
If it goes well expect Obama to take credit. He must create the illusion of leadership.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 1/13/2013 4:18:54 PM (No. 9114555)
Early reports are that the Islamic extremists are well armed and fighting a lot more professionally than the French thought. Sounds like another non-war war.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/13/2013 4:44:22 PM (No. 9114578)
I wonder what Springsteen, BonJovi, Michael Moore an others think about Obama`s warmongering? Funny how the cat gets their tongue when `their` guy is in the WH.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 1/13/2013 6:54:19 PM (No. 9114720)
code Pink, the jersey girls, and those of their ilk will be protesting, right?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
dcomd, 1/13/2013 8:00:54 PM (No. 9114767)
Who, pray tell, would they expect the moooslime-in-chief to support?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
razorx22, 1/13/2013 9:06:06 PM (No. 9114818)
This was once called ´colonialism´.
I miss the good ole days.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lhlande, 1/13/2013 9:17:57 PM (No. 9114829)
I was truly suppressed, on the news I saw the frog soldiers getting ready to leave for Mali, they had real looking guns and no white flags. S/O
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
lhlande, 1/13/2013 9:20:22 PM (No. 9114833)
that word should read surprised
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
oldsfc, 1/13/2013 9:29:23 PM (No. 9114839)
Typical socialist EU. Spend so much money supporting the welfare state they have to bum a ride on the American taxpayers dime. Europe cannot project their military beyond the confines of their own countries. Pathetic bunch of moochers.
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