http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...o_030903055136
<blockquote>WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States sneered at plans by four European countries to create an autonomous European military command headquarters near Brussels separate from NATO (news - web sites), referring to the idea's proponents as "chocolate makers."
In unusually blunt language that drew surprised gasps from reporters, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher scoffed at Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg for continuing to support the proposal that they first introduced at a mini-summit in April.
He described the April meeting as one between "four countries that got together and had a little bitty summit" and then referred to them collectively as "the chocolate makers."<blockquote></p>
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This is really funny when we are already forced into what is almost a civil war in Iraq and when we have North Korea being psycho all over the place and our grip on Afghanistan is slipping away.
Taliban Guerillas take control of parts of Southern Afghanistan
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And this is happening because we can't afford to send any other troops over there to beat them back anymore. The Taliban is getting stronger in Afghanistan every day.