1000 Dead Bodies found in Ivory Coast - Why no NATO intervention??

reply to post by Ferris.Bueller.II

In terms of absolutes you are correct and I stand corrected but as to the general sense as it applies to the OP question I am correct: The Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivorie) exports about 4% of what Libya does in terms of crude oil production. Most of their petroleum development has come about since the 1980s and accounts for about half the % of GDP as does it agriculture (mostly cocoa); 12% vs 24% of GDP. Given the strategic location of Libya to Europe (oil imports directly to Europe) and accounts for 1.6-20% of the world;s petroleum production and the 25x greater # of crude production of Libya over the IC then the export of crude from the Ivory Coast is a literal "drop in the bucket." in comparison and not enough to warrant a strategic importance. Besides NATO means North Atlantic (Europe) and not South Atlantic (Ivory Coast) but the UN could and should intervene as it should have during the Rwanda crisis.

This massacre looks to be unrelated to the civil war in the country.

So far the UN is looking at it being a tribe against tribe or religious group against religious group that took advantage of the conflict to do there own massacre

France is all over Africa with UN backing them up.

www.nytimes.com...

France Takes Control of Airport in Ivory Coast
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: April 3, 2011

PARIS — French forces in coordination with the United Nations took over the Ivory Coast’s main airport on Sunday so that planes could land and foreigners evacuated as fighting continued in Abidjan between rival presidents.France said it has sent another 300 troops, bringing its peace-keeping forces up to about 1,400 in the Ivory Coast, said Col. Thierry Burkhard, a French Defense Ministry spokesman. Nearly 1,700 foreigners, half of them French, have taken shelter at a French military camp close to the airport, and France acted to ensure that they and others could be evacuated if necessary, Colonel Burkhard said.

Fighting continued on Sunday between troops loyal to the elected president, Alassande Ouattara, and those loyal to the incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, who refuses to recognize the election results and leave office despite Mr. Ouattara’s election having been endorsed by the African Union. Mr. Ouattara’s forces have swept south to enter the commercial capital, Abidjan, where Mr. Gbagbo remained.French troops were there to support the United Nations mission in the Ivory Coast, known as ONUCI, although the French government has said clearly that Mr. Gbagbo lost the election and must leave office. The Gbagbo camp on Sunday called the French “an army of occupation.”

The United States also called for Mr. Gbagbo to step down immediately in a statement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Gbagbo is pushing Cote d’Ivoire into lawlessness,” her statement said on Sunday. “He must leave now so the conflict may end.” She also called on Mr. Ouattara’s troops “to respect the rules of war and stop attacks on civilians.”

So the French are getting Hillary to drag us into another section of Africa by saying were protecting civilians?

The new area of Africa they want to attack.


France was passed the torch from Bush. Do you know what else France is doing like Bush.

www.connexionfrance.com...

Sarkozy blocked by EU allies
March 01, 2011
GERMANY and France faced a backlash from some of their key EU allies in their drive to establish a European competitiveness pact in return for measures to reinforce the euro-zone bailout fund.

At an EU summit in Brussels, President Sarkozy and German chancellor Angela Merkel proposed limits on business taxes, national debt and pension ages and a scrapping of
index-linked pay rises.

Britain, Belgium, Sweden, the Netherlands and Austria were joined by Poland and Romania in expressing opposition.

Belgium’s caretaker prime minister, Yves Leterme, said he was against any plan that included doing away with index-linked wage increases.

"There must be more economic co-operation, but member states must be left the room to carry out their own policies. Each member state has its own accents, its own traditions," he said.

The Franco-German initiative would see a new inter-governmental body policing fiscal discipline and economic policy harmonisation throughout the euro-zone.

President Sarkozy said Germany and France were working "hand in glove" to defend the single currency. "We want to ensure the convergence of different European economies ... We therefore agree on a structural plan that is designed to respond to the challenges that Europe faces," he said.

France seems to be pushing the global elite agenda of rob the poor for the global corporations in the EU. They want to take away benfits to the poor and give tax breaks to the rich. Why does that sound familiar. The NWO has a new leader to push there agenda it was Bush now its Sarkozy. It appears the torch has been passed.

More on what France is up to.
www.abovetopsecret.com...

reply to post by grantbeed


France has begun military intervention in the Ivory Coast.

UN helicopter fires at Gbagbo Ivory Coast forces

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – A United Nations helicopter fired at strongman Laurent Gbagbo's forces on Monday as France authorized its military to take out his heavy weapons, an unprecedented escalation in the international community's efforts to oust the entrenched leader.

news.yahoo.com...

Originally posted by grantbeed
More news that just angers me even more about our own countries Governments and leaders.

Why is it we are gung ho on Libya, but we just stand by the shadows and watch this mess unfolding before our eyes?

G.

the problem is that there is govt intervention. do you think people just randomly kill 1000 people without some western govt arming, and provoking them? "we" are also not totally gung ho on libya. in fact, nato is arming al qaeda to overthrow qadafi. why do the dirty work yourself, when you can pay someone else to do it?