feh...
Posted on 03/23/2014 7:22:51 PM PDT by kristinn
President Obama has ordered a sharp increase in U.S. Special Forces deployed to Uganda and sent U.S. military aircraft there for the first time in the ongoing effort to hunt down warlord Joseph Kony across a broad swath of central Africa.
At least four CV-22 Osprey aircraft will arrive in Uganda by midweek, along with refueling aircraft and about 150 Air Force Special Forces and other airmen to fly and maintain the planes, according to Amanda Dory, deputy assistant secretary of defense for African affairs.
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LRA attacks have decreased significantly and the number of people killed has dropped more than 75 percent since 2010, said Grant Harris, a special assistant to Obama and senior African affairs director for the National Security Council.
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Ensuring justice and accountability for human rights violators like the LRA and protecting” the rights of gay and transgendered persons “are not mutually exclusive,” Harris said.
He said the administration has already moved to shift funding away from partners “whose actions don’t reflect” U.S. values, including $6.4 million that had been designated for the Interreligious Council of Uganda, which has supported the legislation.
A planned survey of key populations at risk for HIV, to be jointly conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Uganda University, has also been suspended because “we think proceeding could cause danger to staff and respondents,” Harris said.
He said that approximately $3 million in tourism and biodiversity promotion programs has been transferred from the Ugandan government to nongovernmental organizations. The Pentagon has also shifted regional military conferences that were to be held in Uganda to other locations.
“We are continuing to look at additional steps we might take,” Harris said, and “continue to urge Uganda to repeal the law.”
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How about going after the Boko Haram in Nigeria, if you want to get involved in Africa.
Of course we know why Obama would never do it.
Yeah, he wouldn’t want to harm his peeps.
You know? I don’t care what Obammy does. He is an automativ channel change and a non entity for me.
I thought he was Kenyan.
Who? Is he a moslem?
South Park has ruined by views on Kony...
According to "The Great (and all knowing) ObamaNation",Kony is weak and already on the run so that even the recently emplaced politically correct command structure should be able to get him without messing in their shorts to much.
Good.
Kony may have the real birth certificate.
The military to them is to be used to promote sexual perversion and to stop "Genocide", as long as the victims are not Christians or Jews, thenthey don't care so much.
There are some truly sick SOB's in charge, most of them Harvard elites who have a warped sense of reality.
why is Zero lavishing money and arms on Uganda, compliments of the US taxpayer? To buy him off, of course. That is, our taxpayer money is being used to promote homosexual lifestyles worldwide.
Let’s go back to the last week of February:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/24/uganda-president-signs-anti-gay-laws
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/03/03/uk-uganda-gaybill-author-idUKBREA220P920140303
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/24/world/africa/uganda-homosexuality-interview/
Israel is buying 12 MV22
only thing I’ll learn is my money was wasted ... continues to be wasted and 2 hours of my life life were wasted!!!
feh...
We should not be involved in this AT ALL.
There are two sides in this conflict. Bad & Worse, but which is which? The MSM & Obama say it’s the LRA that is to blame for EVERYTHING, could they be wrong? Could be.
http://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/lords-resistance-army-sudan-history-and-overview
Click on: Download PDF (1.33MB)
This is an unbiased report done in the field. First hand interviews, no propaganda from either side is used.
If you care to know the TRUTH about this civil war, read this article. The LRA aren’t saints, but this is a WAR.
What, is this Kony killing too many muzlims???
This is a personal muslim revenge thing for Obama and his Kenya commie cronies.
Does Obama think nobody sees his actions for what they are? Putin swipes Crimea, scott-free, and Obama goes after some Christian warlord who picks on his Kenya/Uganada muzzie homies.
These events are like what one would see in the middle ages.
They are doing this to attempt to distract fom our horrible weakness before Putn’s knee.
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