Posted on 10/14/2011 11:09:02 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
President Obama has deployed combat troops to central Africa to aid in the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army. In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, Obama says 12 troops with "appropriate combat equipment" were deployed on October 12 and approximately 100 in total will be deployed including a second combat team and headquarters, communications and logistics personnel. The forces will provide information and advise and assist "select partner nation forces," Obama explains. The troops will not fight except in self-defense. The full letter is after the jump.
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I could not have said that better. Where is Medea Benjamin these days? Oh, I forgot: she is trying to join the “Gaza flotilla” since she hates Jews, Christians, the USA, Israel and all freedom loving people.
Didn’t we do that in Kosovo?
Yeap!
Essentially the same ROE as the USS Cole was under.
What a stupid SOB!
How about troops on OUR BORDER to fight the drug cartels
and illegal entries?
Oh, I guess Africa must hold some favoritism for you.
Just to get our boys killed— yeah, good show there, you SOB!
Boy I am pizzed!
When it comes to helping Israel, he says we gotta be careful and restrain ourselves. When it comes to helping these guys, it’s okay. Hippocrit!
I assumed it was some sort of satire. Guess not.
Obama is laying the groundwork for another Nobel Peace Prize.
11 October 2011 Last updated at 17:03 ET
Where child sacrifice is a business
By Chris Rogers
BBC News, Kampala
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15255357
With this crowd's use of language, I don't trust them. Look at the NATO/US interpretation of enforcing the “no fly” rules in Libya.
” Obama sending combat troops to central Africa to get Fast and Furious out of the headlines. What did he know and when did he know it? “
and Boner and the rest are happy to abilge him to keep peoples minds off the fact .. THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING ABOUT OBAMACARE!
Yeah, but BO won’t put up with any nonsense from bitter clingers. He’d be eager to escalate.
Delighted with Herman Cain though not up to speed. Glad to “hear” from you. TTYL.
Wikipedia is a leftist propaganda website.
The point of this, and my admitted animus to the President for these actions, is that this truly is not a Christian vs. Muslim problem. These are tribal and other issues that have been made worse by truly crazy leaders that wear whatever hat suit them to gain sympathy and respect.
The is truly a dastardly step taken by Obama, but I do not believe it is because he is trying to kill these Christians. These people are not Christians in any sense of the word, but they know to gain respect and support from the Christian world, they claim to be.
The true issue is why now? Why here? What is in it for him? Who is calling the shots here?
idiocy
12 troops = one ODA
Who are the 100 horse holders?
My repost from Rush’s thread today in response to a question of what Rush said:
Zero announced the dispatch of US armed troops to be advisors to Uganda to seek out the LRA and remove them from the field. Rush made an ill-advised comment about this being a Christian group fighting Muslims in Sudan, implying that there was a motive on Zero’s part to take sides Christian vs. Muslim (at least that is how I took it, though he did not expressly say that).
We can debate Zero’s actions forever, but people need to understand the facts about this poor impoverished nation, and its connection to Rwanda and the Slaughter of over one million Rwandans during the Clinton Administration.
Joseph Kony has been around causing trouble for many years, and he “recruits” by kidnapping children and making them join his army. They are not of an ideology except for what Kony convinces them, a la Jim Jones. They profess Christianity to gain support from Christians, and they sometimes hoodwink people into believing they should be su8pported because they call themselves Christian.
They are not. They are superstitious animists, pagans, and Christians whose sole unifying factor is obedience to Kony, who claims to be a savior of some sort.
The world would be better off without him, but there are ways to do it that are not going to bring on warfare in Uganda which will kill thousands of defenseless and innocent Ugandans.
You are not alone in not knowing of them. No press covers the activities of Central Africa and news rarely gets out that accurately depicts the plight of those people who olive there. No one wants to talk about the genocide that killed so many. As an aside, in one town, the French herded over 30,000 people to a location stating that they would be protected from the genocidaires, and then left. They came with machetes and took their time killing every last one, while the people cried out for the West to come and save them.
Clinton claimed not to know until after the fact, but I do not believe him. The world let this happen, because no one cares about the lives of Central Africans.
There bodies are still there, in situ, covered only by lime, as a reminder to those who have eyes to see.
Now, Obama is re-unleashing forces that he cannot or will not be able to control, and those people will suffer for it. May God damn him for what he is doing.
Please tell me you are kidding. Everything I've heard about the LRA is they are a sicko bunch of whacked out cultists with no meaningful connection to Christianity. There is even a recent movie about a Christian missionary who has taken up arms against them ("Machine Gun Preacher" or something like that).
The LRA maims and cripples people for crimes like riding bicycles. Not to mention kidnapping kids to serve as child soldiers while brainwashing them to follow their cult leadership. That's not exactly in line with Christian doctrine.
Uganda’s government also uses child soldiers, how are they better than the LRA?
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