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DrMaddVibe
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14 years ago

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!

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DrafterX
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14 years ago

prolly looking for CROS.... 😟

Brewha
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14 years ago

Uganda?????

Where the hell in my ganda?

DrMaddVibe
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14 years ago

I dunno but I'ma not gonna ganda either!

DrafterX
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14 years ago

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.... 😞

Edited by user 14 years ago | Reason: Not specified

wheelrite
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14 years ago

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.... 😞

DrafterX wrote:

Obama hates Cap'n Jack Sparrow ???

DrMaddVibe
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14 years ago

Obama hates Cap'n Jack Sparrow ???

wheelrite wrote:

No, he loves Capt. Sparrow!

He just hates the competition!

rfenst
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14 years ago

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
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14 years ago

rfenst wrote:

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
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14 years ago

#10

GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ NOW!!!

rfenst wrote:

Agreed. Another reason why Obama has failed liberals.

wheelrite
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14 years ago

#11

Obama's white 1/2 is a war monger...

ZRX1200
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14 years ago

#12

Our drones are busy in Libya.

tonyt722
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14 years ago

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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.... 😞

DrafterX wrote:

Did you ask the Somali's if they have CROS?