The UN: Of Wiener Dogs and Banana Peels...

[Dinner]

Everyone is still scratching their head trying to figure out why anyone would consider Chavez a great statesman.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
eh?

Or at least it used to:

http://www.grioo.com/info4411.html (In French, sorry), is an AFP article stating that the UN gave a mandate to an international force: 6000 blue helmets (mostly African) and 4000 French troops.

IIRC, the US voted in favour of the Ivorian operation back in late 2002 in the hopes that France would eventually back the US intervention in Iraq.