Posted on 10/18/2011 9:48:46 AM PDT by SoonerStorm09
OKLAHOMA CITY – While covering the Occupy OKC protests this weekend, Red Dirt Report was curious to see if there were any protesters concerned about the president’s unilateral decision to send 100 troops to Uganda on some vaguely-worded “humanitarian mission” to help oust a terrorist group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, which we have written about here and here.
There were no anti-war protesters on hand, at least none aware of the Uganda mission that we could find. The anti-war movement has been effectively dead since Obama entered the White House and little has been said by any anti-war activists about the ongoing wars overseen by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe program today, host Joe Scarborough, according to The Daily Caller, called Obama’s move into Uganda “invasion by press release” and that had the same late-Friday announcement come from the George W. Bush White House, there would have been holy hell to pay.
And so the Ugandan military – along with forces in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – will be doing their best to flush out the remnants of the ragtag, Christian-esque cult. The LRA has terrorized central-east Africa – primarily the Uganda great lakes region – for years, kidnapping children and making them soldiers and sex slaves. It is truly a humanitarian problem, but one wonders why the Ugandan army didn’t flush them out long ago, instead of heading to Iraq, lured by promises of American cash. Makes one wonder if the Ugandan government really cares about the citizens or about foreign money.
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“The anti-war movement has been effectively dead since Obama entered the White House and little has been said by any anti-war activists about... “
They sure have been quiet since the supposed death of Osama out here in the land of winos, fruit and nuts, aka Californicator land.
One wretched B$tch during GW’s last 4 years had several letters to the local editor published each week with various lies about GW expanding the war, bringing back the draft ad nausea.
She is really quiet now and will cross over to the other side of the street or farmers market if she sees me. She has no response when I call her beloved Obozo an insane war criminal.
I don’t know from Inohofe but I know I don’t support this. Just another pointless foriegn adventure.
“...but one wonders why the Ugandan army didn’t flush them out long ago, instead of heading to Iraq, lured by promises of American cash.”
Great point.
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