(Doublethink This): Liberian Violence Continues Despite Peace

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3327099,00.html



TOTOTA, Liberia (AP) - Liberia's civil war is
officially over, but outside the capital, it doesn't
look much like peace: Rebels are looting,
pro-government militias are raping, and civilians
are being forced to till fields to feed hungry
fighters, residents say.

Despite an August peace deal and an expanding
peacekeeping mission slated to become the
United Nations' largest, hundreds of thousands of
civilians are still holed up in displaced camps afraid
to return home.

``If you venture into places that are not under
United Nations peacekeepers, you do so at your
own risk,'' said 37-year-old Pastor Aaron Sao,
who fled the central village of Gbarnga in August
during battles between rebels and
pro-government forces.

The U.N. peacekeeping mission, now numbering
4,500 troops, is expected to grow to 15,000
over the next few months. So far only a few
hundred soldiers have been deployed to key
trouble-spots outside the capital, Monrovia.

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1. Hmmm. Sounds like the Squatter-in-Chief's "Mission Accomplished".

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2. Add that to the fact

that Charles Taylor is still a free man living off the billions that he stole from his own country and this misadministration could care less. Now if Taylor had been sitting on top of the world's largest oil reserves, US forces would be occupying Liberia instead of Iraq and Saddam would be in exile in a palace in Africa and Taylor would be on the run hiding in a shack somewhere in Liberia.