Re: How many do support the war?
"Aaron J. Seigo" <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 April 2003 01:38, dep wrote: > begin Andreas Pour's quote: > | It seems obvious that a government headed by a fascist like Mugabe, > | truly despised by the people, could hardly stand very long w/out > | tacit (and likely military) support from some global "policeman". > > wow! we agree on something! > > interestingly, it was chiraq who welcomed mugabe a few weeks ago, over > the e.u. sanction against mugabe's regime that prohibited travel by > him to e.u. countries. then again, it's chiraq who is shooting up the > ivory coast without benefit of u.n. approval, international > discussion, or anything even remotely multilateral. according to the BBC: "The French deployment and the protest follow the United Nations Security Council's decision to give French and African troops in Ivory Coast a mandate to use force in order to protect civilians. " From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2728909.stm not saying it's right since i don't know enough about the situation (though thanks to your comments i'm becoming more aware of it, so thank you!) but i do think it is good to properly represent the situation, which apparently does have (at least now) UN approval. some other interesting bits of coverage on this for others who, like myself, haven't been keeping up with this situation: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2712675.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2308849.stm - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+lu0m1rcusafx20MRAmwLAJsHYp8mGbA2+gkCFssVuFvW6k9kDACeOkK1 pvH0112ixftKq6GEXYLZZOE= =HoOv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent KDE or the author's employer.