Posted on 10/15/2011 12:05:01 AM PDT by Yosemitest
Why us? Uganda is former British colony and the Brits should be shouldering their share of quashing these thugs. The French are entrenched in nearby Djibouti, and maintain garrisons throughout Africa. They need to get involved here. We don’t; we’ve got enough on our plate as it is.
I’m certainly not supporting the idea of U.S. troops being sent into yet another foreign war, but Limbaugh really needs to read up on the Lord’s Resistance Army before he takes up their cause and assumes the role as their spokesperson. They have a marked propensity towards massacring Catholics and anyone else that gets in their way. These are not good people.
Read the news. Link
Of course. Many on the left would be just fine with sending troops into American towns and cities and rounding up their political opponents. There are those in their ranks who would be fine with reeducation camps, and with ‘eradicating’ those who wouldn't be ‘reeducated’. They are not anti-violence. They are violent, and if the left ever had absolute power you would see a repeat of what Stalin did.
WHO called Obama to ask him to send tropps there??
Rush blew it. The Lords Resistance Army is Christan like the Westboro Baptist Church are Baptists.
Google Lords Resistance Army. Nasty, nasty bunch. Been around for 30+ years.
I’d like to know why nobama is “suddenly” interested in this group.
I'd say some Islamist warlord wanted them out of the way. That country is just under 20% Muslim, which is the point where nasty things like this begin occurring.
Rush acknowledged that at the very end of the transcript.
I wonder how the Wall Street crowd is gonna react when they find out that Obama has sent troops to another war? ...LRA is Lord's Resistance Army. And it doesn't mean God's resistance army. Lord is some Lord, some guy... Lord's Resistance Army are Christians. It means God. I was only kidding. Lord's Resistance Army are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them... Now, are we gonna help the Egyptians wipe out the Christians? Wouldn't you say that we are? I mean the Coptic Christians are being wiped out.. Lord's Resistance Army objectives. I have them here. "To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people; to fight for the immediate restoration of the competitive multiparty democracy in Uganda; to see an end to gross violation of human rights and dignity of Ugandans; to ensure the restoration of peace and security in Uganda, to ensure unity, sovereignty, and economic prosperity beneficial to all Ugandans, and to bring to an end the repressive policy of deliberate marginalization of groups of people who may not agree with the LRA ideology." Those are the objectives of the group that we are fighting.
Thank you.
You probably are aware that the Sudanese slaughtered the South Sudanese over many years, killed them by the millions, and for a long time no one would help them for fear of alienating the muslims. But a lot of missionary organizations have been involved helping them, and they did build enough of a resistance army that Khartoum was forced to take them seriously. We helped them negotiate a slow-motion declaration of independence, and a vote which as of recently has made them the first new independent country in Africa.
In addition to the Sudanese military, the LRA has preyed upon the South Sudanese (along with anyone else they can get their hands on, they are psychotic...) so a part of helping South Sudan to get on its feet, and helping their refugees to go home (and making it possible for missionaries and aid groups to operate without being killed) is to go after the LRA.
So, we send a few special forces operators to help the Ugandans go after them. Its almost certain we’ll be sending people to train the South Sudanese Army (probably we’ve been doing it for years on the quiet, which is probably how they were able to beat Sudan).
I don’t like Obama, but I’m not going to criticize him on this one. Since Bush we’ve had people operating all over Africa in various capacities, not really in secret but very much on the quiet, because Africa is the next battleground with Al Qaeda. We often send units to train with the various militaries to go after “bandits”, so this is just one more. The LRA have needed killing for a long long time.
Where the hell do people get this “Thou shalt not kill” CRAP?
General Butt Naked! /S
I vaguely remember hearing the same thing about another jungle 50 years (or so) ago.
Oops! Never mind.
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