Sudan Threatens to Cut Off the World's Coca-Cola Supply

[Animegamer]

Karl -- a.k.a. John Ukec Lueth Ukec, the Sudanese ambassador to Washington -- held a news conference at the National Press Club yesterday to respond to President Bush's new sanctions against his regime. In his hour-long presentation, he described a situation in his land that bore no relation to reality.

Genocide in the Darfur region? "The United States is the only country saying that what is happening in Darfur is a genocide," Ukec shouted, gesticulating wildly and perspiring from his bald crown. "I think this is a pretext."

Ah. So what about the more than 400,000 dead? "See how many people are dying in Darfur: None," he said.

And the 2 million displaced? "I am not a statistician." {Ahhh but he could get a night job as a comedian}
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"I want you to know that the gum arabic which runs all the soft drinks all over the world, including the United States, mainly 80 percent is imported from my country," the ambassador said after raising a bottle of Coca-Cola.
A reporter asked if Sudan was threatening to "stop the export of gum arabic and bring down the Western world."

"I can stop that gum arabic and all of us will have lost this," Khartoum Karl warned anew, beckoning to the Coke bottle. "But I don't want to go that way."

As diplomatic threats go, that one gets high points for creativity: Try to stop the killings in Darfur, and we'll take away your Coca-Cola...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7053002157.html

Humm... do I smell a Coca-Cola war?

[Shida]

This amuses me, but I do not care really, for I do not drink Coca-Cola or other carbonated drinks.

[rtil]

america would be better off without soft drinks

[redmongoose]

sudan is looking for an assbeating

[Animegamer]

sudan is looking for an assbeating

yep

[trent bortknob]

america would be better off without soft drinks

america would be better off without rtil

[rtil]

the world would be better off without taylor

[Necronomitr0n]

Sudan had better give me my Coca-Cola or suffer the consequences.

[rtil]

presonally i'm a bigger fan of pepsi
but i'd assume they use the same ingredient

[trent bortknob]

presonally i'm a bigger fan of pepsi

this

[willy]

yes. I like pepsi WAY more than coke. but this threat gets remembered by me for simply being laughable. they'd bring down mexico, not the US