mikeandronda
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I find it funny that when the french were attacked they retaliated............suprising since as I see it they most always have someone else fight their battles, and then call their saviours names. Ihow is it ok for them to defend themselves and when we did it we are warmongers?
<br /><br /><br />By PARFAIT KOUASSI, Associated Press Writer <br /><br />ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Warplanes bombed French peacekeepers Saturday, killing eight French soldiers and an American, officials said, prompting a French counterstrike in a standoff that threatened to escalate Ivory Coast's renewed civil war. <br /><br />After the French retaliation, pro-government mobs tried to storm a French military base near in the country's commercial center, Abidjan, witnesses said. French troops fired in the air and lobbed tear gas at the crowd. <br /><br /><br />The violence threatened to drag French and U.N. peacekeepers into the civil war that hard-line military commanders re-launched on Thursday, launching airstrikes on rebel-held positions in the north and breaking a cease-fire that had held for more than a year. <br /><br /><br />France sent three Mirage fighter jets to West Africa in response, and French President Jacques Chirac said he orderd the deployment of two more military companies to Ivory Coast.