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ollowing introduction in May 2009 by Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA), Representative Ed Royce (R-CA) and Representative Brad Miller (D-NC), the bill gained an average of 20 cosponsors a month until passage the next year. The bill passed unanimously in the Senate on March 11th, 2010 with 65 Senators as cosponsors, then passed unanimously in the House of Representatives on May 13th, 2010 with 202 Representatives as cosponsors. These 267 Members of Congress helped bring to the President’s desk the most widely cosponsored bill Africa-related piece of legislation in the last 37 years, or as far back as electronic records document.
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LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009 http://www.theresolve.org/pages/list-of-congressional-cosponsors
Representative Jeff Fortenberry (NE-1) joined with Reps. Jim McGovern (MA-3) and Bill Young (FL-10) to “ensure that our defense community has the resources necessary to carry out […] an international strategy to help end the atrocities committed by the LRA, protect innocent civilians, and stabilize a region of Africa that is critical to U.S. national security interests.”

In a major victory for Resolve’s S2F campaign, the Senate Armed Services Committee passed its version of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act today — essentially the budget for the U.S. defense community — and included an unprecedented provision aimed at helping stop LRA atrocities. According to a release on the Committee website, the amendment — put forward by Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and championed by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), the Chair of the Committee — authorizes $35 million to provide support to regional forces working to protect people from LRA atrocities.

http://www.theresolve.org/blog/archives/category/from-congress

And not a single GD voice in the media or useless, shit-scared GOP asking: “WHY?”

That's easy to explain: Who wants to be the journalist or politician who opposes it, when Obama and his friends in the media can then claim you're defending somebody who supports the rape and killing of 10s of thousands of children? Any politician who stands up to Obama will find themselves answering questions about why they don't want us to go after child rapists and mass murders.

As much as I loathe these kinds of situations, and I firmly believe that by the time the election rolls around there will be many times the American "advisors" there that there are now, Obama can get away with this deployment.

Personally, with as many private military contractors as there are floating around, I'd rather see everybody who really supports this to chip and hire PMCs to deal with it rather than the US being dragged into another mini-war where the rules of engagement and our mission are hazy.