Skip to comments.
US troops now in 4 African countries to fight LRA
AP ^
| 2/22/12
| JASON STRAZIUSO
Posted on 02/23/2012 4:15:06 AM PST by EBH
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-51 next last
I thought we were not going to have a major role? Uh?
1
posted on
02/23/2012 4:15:07 AM PST
by
EBH
To: EBH
Who’s making money off us being there ?
2
posted on
02/23/2012 4:18:00 AM PST
by
maine yankee
(I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
To: maine yankee
The better question is why are we so interested in helping capture this particular guy?
They say this group is a cult with no agenda. Hmmm, last time I checked “cults” have agendas, serious agendas. Granted it might be the spaceship is landing for them, but they have an agenda.
So what is up with this rogue group?
3
posted on
02/23/2012 4:24:46 AM PST
by
EBH
(God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
To: EBH
Right across central Africa?
Uganda, Congo, South Sudan and Central African Republic.
4
posted on
02/23/2012 4:38:35 AM PST
by
EBH
(God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
To: EBH
“Joseph Kony (born 1961) is a Ugandan guerrilla group leader, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a guerrilla group that is engaged in a violent campaign to establish theocratic government based on the Ten Commandments in Uganda.[1] The LRA say that God has sent spirits to communicate this mission directly to Kony.[4]”
5
posted on
02/23/2012 4:42:09 AM PST
by
LomanBill
(Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
To: LomanBill
I know that.
But what does it have to do with the United States?
6
posted on
02/23/2012 4:44:08 AM PST
by
EBH
(God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
To: maine yankee
Same people making money off of being in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course, we WANT troops there, and are in fact bitching that we don’t have enough boots on the ground. So make up your minds, people, we’re either the world’s policemen or we’re not.
7
posted on
02/23/2012 4:48:37 AM PST
by
Wolfie
To: EBH
>>So what is up with this rogue group?
“By 1992, Kony had renamed the group United Democratic Christian Army and it was at this time that they kidnapped 44 girls from the Sacred Heart Secondary and St. Mary’s girls schools.[8]”
Kidnapping’s ok because it’s not explicitly covered in the 10 commandments?
Quack, Waddle — “Jones, paging Rev. Jim Jones...”
8
posted on
02/23/2012 4:49:18 AM PST
by
LomanBill
(Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
To: EBH
>>But what does it have to do with the United States?
Securing Odumbo’s Homeland?
9
posted on
02/23/2012 4:50:40 AM PST
by
LomanBill
(Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
To: EBH
Between Bush in Iraq, and Obama in Libya, and Obama meddling with Egypt and prob soon to be Syria, and now 4 African countries, when does the point come that it is understandable why the world views us differently than we ourselves do? While we say we have humanitarian reasons for some, if not all, of the above, people are getting killed just the same. Why is the nanny state wrong domestically, but OK internationally? Aren’t we trying to nanny state the world?
10
posted on
02/23/2012 5:34:08 AM PST
by
PghBaldy
(Once again, Obama proves he is not an honest broker. He can't be trusted.)
To: EBH
Just a guess that this is the strongest pro-Christian group operating in Africa and poses a threat to the islamist movements in the Northern tier.
11
posted on
02/23/2012 5:34:29 AM PST
by
Erik Latranyi
(When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
To: PghBaldy
“Arent we trying to nanny state the world?”
Same question Ron Paul is asking. Just sayin.
To: EBH
The better question is why are we so interested in helping capture this particular guy?
They say this group is a cult with no agenda. Hmmm, last time I checked cults have agendas, serious agendas. Granted it might be the spaceship is landing for them, but they have an agenda.
So what is up with this rogue group?
It's for the kids. I'm not kidding, I was flipping channels the other day and saw something about this LRA group had kidnapped either 66,000 or 660,000 kids across Africa and were using them for slave labor, sex slavery, and forcing them to act as soldiers.
Apparently we care when the pedophiles run rampant in Africa, but here we just tell them stay so many feet away from schools and playgrounds.
To: Wolfie
were either the worlds policemen or were notWhy should we be? This has nothing to do with us. No matter who takes one thug out, six more will pop up there. It's long past time we let these little punks kill each other off and start taking care of our own problems at home.
14
posted on
02/23/2012 5:55:36 AM PST
by
bgill
(Romney & Obama are both ineligible. A non-NBC GOP prez shuts down all ?s on Obama's admin)
To: Erik Latranyi
Just a guess that this is the strongest pro-Christian group operating in Africa and poses a threat to the islamist movements in the Northern tier.
If by "pro-Christian" you mean they like to kidnap and rape children, then yeah, I guess.
My definition of "pro-Christian" doesn't apply to this LRA group since it doesn't include kidnappin and raping children, among many other horrible things.
Ignore the labels. This guy renounced Christ and was his village's witch doctor at one point.
To: bgill
Why should we be? This has nothing to do with us. No matter who takes one thug out, six more will pop up there. It's long past time we let these little punks kill each other off and start taking care of our own problems at home.
That's exactly how I feel. It's sad what this LRA group is doing, but we have problems a lot closer to home that we don't even address, and it's not our job to be forming up posses and dealing with problems that are not of our doing or that have no impact on us as a nation.
The way I see it, if there are people here in the USA that want something to be done about this guy and his thugs, there's nothing stopping them from getting on an airplane to Africa and joining a local opposition group.
To: af_vet_rr
Years ago, during Operation Manta in Chad, the French Foreign Legion had been staging out of Bangui, CAR. The Legion has long been active all over Africa. Their east African training base is in Djibouti, which is now our Horn of Africa HQS in the GWOT.
17
posted on
02/23/2012 6:26:36 AM PST
by
Ax
To: EBH
Wouldn’t these troops be better used in Afghanistan? Well, if we were trying to win?
18
posted on
02/23/2012 6:42:12 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: af_vet_rr
There have been, at least in a non-military sense. The eldest son of my former church small-group leader was in Africa with a group called Invisible Children, working on getting child soldiers and servants out of the clutches of the LRA and back to their families. The LRA are not “Christian”...their leader is a whackjob who has adopted certain Christian verbiage to try and make his group of bandits and thugs look more legitimate. They attack and raze villages, kill the adults, and carry the children off; the boys are forced into being soldiers, the girls into servitude and eventually sex.
In a sick irony, the son was killed not by the LRA, but by Islamists. He was the only American casualty of the 2010 Ugandan suicide bombings, when an Islamonazi blew himself up in the midst of a crowd of Ugandans watching the World Cup.
}:-)4
19
posted on
02/23/2012 6:51:30 AM PST
by
Moose4
("Oderint dum metuant" -- "Let them hate, as long as they fear." (Lucius Accius, c. 130 BC))
To: EBH
Are our servicemen dying, defending or helping the mosloms get or stay into power?
Is our country committing suicide with a leader that says he will stand with the mosloms if push came to shove?
I feel like I’m starting to spin around that abyss.
20
posted on
02/23/2012 6:59:37 AM PST
by
TribalPrincess2U
(NOT VOTING gets 0bamao re-elected. 0bamao's ANTI-TRUTH & SPIN TEAM is again on the move.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-51 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson