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US Military Now In Uganda!!!!
DrMaddVibe Offline
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Obama Sends 100 US Troops to Uganda to Help Combat Lord’s Resistance Army

Two days ago President Obama authorized the deployment to Uganda of approximately 100 combat-equipped U.S. forces to help regional forces “remove from the battlefield” – meaning capture or kill – Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and senior leaders of the LRA.

The forces will deploy beginning with a small group and grow over the next month to 100. They will ultimately go to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the permission of those countries.

The president made this announcement in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Friday afternoon, saying that “deploying these U.S. Armed Forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and will be a significant contribution toward counter-LRA efforts in central Africa.”

He said that “although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces, and they will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense.”

The president said that for more than two decades the LRA has been responsible for having “murdered, raped, and kidnapped tens of thousands of men, women, and children in central Africa” and continues to “commit atrocities across the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan that have a disproportionate impact on regional security.”

Update: A Defense Department official tells ABC’s Luis Martinez at the Pentagon that the U.S. troops will be in Africa “for a few months in an advisory role.”

- Jake Tapper



The Kenyan King going home tour 2011!
DrafterX Offline
#2 Posted:
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prolly looking for CROS.... Mellow
Brewha Offline
#3 Posted:
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Uganda?????

Where the hell in my ganda?
DrMaddVibe Offline
#4 Posted:
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I dunno but I'ma not gonna ganda either!
DrafterX Offline
#5 Posted:
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yep... another bad guy to track down... this will look good at election time.... We should really go after the Soamli Pirates tho.... nobody ever thinks about the Somali Pirates.... Sad
wheelrite Offline
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DrafterX wrote:
yep... another bad guy to track down... this will look good at election time.... We should really go after the Soamli Pirates tho.... nobody ever thinks about the Somali Pirates.... Sad


Obama hates Cap'n Jack Sparrow ???
DrMaddVibe Offline
#7 Posted:
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wheelrite wrote:
Obama hates Cap'n Jack Sparrow ???



No, he loves Capt. Sparrow!

He just hates the competition!
rfenst Offline
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Uh, oh!
Gues this means they can't be "droned out"?

Sounds like CIA should be taking care of this, not military other than perhaps a small elite force.
Sure hope there is an exit strategy and short time limit, like 60 days- no matter what the outcome.

Wonder what it is claimed we are going to gain by this?










GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ NOW!!!
DrMaddVibe Offline
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rfenst wrote:
Uh, oh!
Gues this means they can't be "droned out"?

Sounds like CIA should be taking care of this, not military other than perhaps a small elite force.
Sure hope there is an exit strategy and short time limit, like 60 days- no matter what the outcome.

Wonder what it is claimed we are going to gain by this?










GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ NOW!!!


This is how the Vietnam Conflict started. Advisors...just there to "observe".

Where's Cindy Sheehan now?

Oh, that's right...she was just mad at Bush.


Let's see...he promised he was going to end the Iraq and Afghanistan wars...instead we have another "conflict" on our hands and Iran war drums are beating.



FuzzNJ Offline
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rfenst wrote:
GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ NOW!!!


Agreed. Another reason why Obama has failed liberals.
wheelrite Offline
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Obama's white 1/2 is a war monger...
ZRX1200 Offline
#12 Posted:
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Our drones are busy in Libya.
tonyt722 Offline
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DrafterX wrote:
yep... another bad guy to track down... this will look good at election time.... We should really go after the Soamli Pirates tho.... nobody ever thinks about the Somali Pirates.... Sad

Did you ask the Somali's if they have CROS?
engletl Offline
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tonyt722 wrote:
Did you ask the Somali's if they have CROS?


I heard CROS is their leader
Brewha Offline
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Poor Cros . . . . . . . Sad
HockeyDad Offline
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rfenst wrote:

Wonder what it is claimed we are going to gain by this?




There are probably some promising solar energy firms in Uganda.
ZRX1200 Offline
#17 Posted:
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This is a humanitarian mission and the Kenyan king wishes to act like a dictator. He knows the media will say what his administration orders them to.
DadZilla3 Offline
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We now officially have our military stationed everywhere on planet Earth, with the exception of our borders.
HockeyDad Offline
#19 Posted:
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Uganda was only two years away from having a ballistic missile that would be in range of Cleveland. We had to take action.
ZRX1200 Offline
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Angry Browns fans?
Stinkdyr Offline
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Wasn't Israel originally going to be sited in Uganda?

Think
bloody spaniard Offline
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My guess is that Obama and/or his advisors were prompted to do something about the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) and kill its demented leader, Joseph Kony, after viewing "Machine Gun Preacher", starring Gerard Butler- based on a real life preacher hero named Sam Childers.

The LRA is is a terrorist group formed in 1987, operating in northern Uganda and South Sudan. Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the "spokesperson" of God and spirit medium is a killer. Their plan is to "liberate" via an assortment of human rights violations sanctioned by the Holy Spirit (google Blessed Trinity), including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women, and recruitment of children as soldiers.

Their beliefs are actually a mishmash of tribal religious rituals, mysticism, traditional religion, Acholi nationalism and Christianity. Their goal is to establish a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition one arm (or leg) at a time.

I applaud Barak Hussein on this one, even if his intent was not to help Rev. Childers. He is still protecting the lives of innocents by hunting down this blood thirsty animal. Besides, isn't that our role as policeman of the world with deep pockets?


Carry on with the usual asshattery.Frying pan
HockeyDad Offline
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bloody spaniard wrote:
Their beliefs are actually a mishmash of tribal religious rituals, mysticism, traditional religion, Acholi nationalism and Christianity. Their goal is to establish a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition one arm (or leg) at a time.



What.....the Tea Party is in Uganda now?????
DrMaddVibe Offline
#24 Posted:
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Please...after the world completely ignores what happened in Rwanda... they want to play catch-up?

F' em.

Let THEM clean up their OWN messes.

Bring the soldiers home...from EVERYWHERE.

Okinawa...Japan...Germany...Turkey...Iraq...Afghanistan...end the insanity. All we're doing is increasing the debt and the blowback factor. We're NOT making friends or establishing democracy!
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bloody spaniard wrote:
My guess is that Obama and/or his advisors were prompted to do something about the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) and kill its demented leader, Joseph Kony, after viewing "Machine Gun Preacher", starring Gerard Butler- based on a real life preacher hero named Sam Childers.

The LRA is is a terrorist group formed in 1987, operating in northern Uganda and South Sudan. Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the "spokesperson" of God and spirit medium is a killer. Their plan is to "liberate" via an assortment of human rights violations sanctioned by the Holy Spirit (google Blessed Trinity), including murder, abduction, mutilation, sexual enslavement of women, and recruitment of children as soldiers.

Their beliefs are actually a mishmash of tribal religious rituals, mysticism, traditional religion, Acholi nationalism and Christianity. Their goal is to establish a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition one arm (or leg) at a time.

I applaud Barak Hussein on this one, even if his intent was not to help Rev. Childers. He is still protecting the lives of innocents by hunting down this blood thirsty animal. Besides, isn't that our role as policeman of the world with deep pockets?

Carry on with the usual asshattery.Frying pan


Which is what makes this so damn stupid and frightening:

LIMBAUGH: Have you ever heard of Lord's Resistance Army, Dawn? How about you, Brian? Snerdley, have you? You never heard of Lord's Resistance Army? Well, proves my contention, most Americans have never heard of it, and here we are at war with them. Lord's Resistance Army are Christians. It means God. I was only kidding. Lord's Resistance Army are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them. That's what the lingo means, "to help regional forces remove from the battlefield," meaning capture or kill.

So that's a new war, a hundred troops to wipe out Christians in Sudan, Uganda, and -- (interruption) no, I'm not kidding. Jacob Tapper just reported it. Now, are we gonna help the Egyptians wipe out the Christians? Wouldn't you say that we are? I mean the Coptic Christians are being wiped out, but it wasn't just Obama that supported that. The conservative intelligentsia thought it was an outbreak of democracy. Now they've done a 180 on that, but they forgot that they supported it in the first place. Now they're criticizing it.

Lord's Resistance Army objectives. I have them here. "To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people." Now, again Lord's Resistance Army is who Obama sent troops to help nations wipe out. The objectives of the Lord's Resistance Army, what they're trying to accomplish with their military action in these countries is the following: "To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people; to fight for the immediate restoration of the competitive multiparty democracy in Uganda; to see an end to gross violation of human rights and dignity of Ugandans; to ensure the restoration of peace and security in Uganda, to ensure unity, sovereignty, and economic prosperity beneficial to all Ugandans, and to bring to an end the repressive policy of deliberate marginalization of groups of people who may not agree with the LRA ideology." Those are the objectives of the group that we are fighting, or who are being fought and we are joining in the effort to remove them from the battlefield.
DrafterX Offline
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but Obama said they were bad..... Mellow
bloody spaniard Offline
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Fuzz, you're wasting bandwith quoting Limbaugh's magnificent flatulence.
He should learn to shut his mouth when he wants to pass gas.

Read my seltzer post (again), shake, stir, and cogitate. If you're still gassy- repeat.
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