Posted on 10/25/2011 12:52:45 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military operation against a ruthless guerrilla group accused of widespread atrocities is a short-term deployment with the specific goal of ending the threat of the Lord's Resistance Army in Africa, Obama administration officials insisted on Tuesday.
Facing skeptical members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, administration officials said the roughly 100 American troops - mostly U.S. Army Special Forces - had been dispatched to central Africa as advisers to regional forces pursuing leader Joseph Kony and top commanders of the Lord's Resistance Army.
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Same thing was said when Vietnam started this way.
Sure.
Yep, when advisors started getting killed, troops were brought in to protect the advisors, then when the troops protecting the advisors were killed, troops were brought in to protect the troops protecting the advisors.......Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
Very dangerous.Yet this is calculated aid in the destruction of the US military. Obama never actually built a damned thing in his life.
They just want to help Iran consolidate the caliphate and Duhbummer will rule this area..
Somalia was limited. Look what it got us.
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