Cost Rica wants out...or is it off?

[RickM]

Off the list of Coalition supporters.

This article seems to indicate that they are fearful of fanning the fire of local terrorist activity and hence this move.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040909/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/costa_rica_iraq

But this is what bothers me:

"Afterward, it turned out that there weren't weapons (of mass destruction) and all that, but that happens. The Sept. 11 attacks didn't leave much doubt about fears. Now we consider that only a thing of the past."

[dd74]

Ummm...pacifists, but they're in the coalition? Are they unarmed, too?

[SteveStromberg]

Costa Rica isnt that where Don Vesco Bought off the Govt. to avoid being sent back to the USA. That is one Corrupt Third World Hell hole. BTW 2 out of 3 Cars in Costa Rica Today were Stolen in the US.

[dd74]

Corrupt? Sure. But I hear beachfront property is cheap...

[SteveStromberg]

Perhaps the most feared snake of all, however, is the fer-de-lance - Central America's most lethal. Like most snakes, it prefers to be left alone, but it does sometimes bite humans with little provocation. The fer-de-lance bites several hundred people each year in Costa Rica, mostly agricultural workers who are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The snake hunts by ambush, lying camouflaged within the leaf litter on the forest floor. Many human victims simply get too close for the snake's comfort without realizing it's there - until the strike.

A bite is serious business because the snake's venom is incredibly toxic. Even a drop plays havoc within living tissue, devastating the victim's veins and capillaries. Internal swelling is so severe that doctors often remove the skin to release the pressure, and gruesome wounds result.

[widebody911]

Originally posted by SteveStromberg
Perhaps the most feared snake of all, however, is the fer-de-lance - Central America's most lethal.

Even worse is the Tour-de-Lance, but it only bites the French.

[flyenby]

SO I guess that they want off the foriegn welfare roll as well...................