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Obama sends 100 troops to Africa to fight LRA

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What The Hell?

 

Two days ago, the U.S. deployed combat troops to central Africa to serve as advisers to regional forces battling the Lord's Resistance Army. News of the deployment came a few minutes ago in a letter dated today from President Obama to John Boehner (R-OH), speaker of the House, and Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI), president pro tempore of the Senate. The letter was released publicly by the White House.

 

A total of 100 combat-equipped troops will eventually be deployed, with the rest being dispatched in the coming days, according to the letter. "However, although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces, and they will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense," Obama writes.

 

We'll have more on this surprise move and what exactly the LRA is shortly.

 

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011...l.php?ref=fpblg

I'll let you guess which luminary chose to step in to defend the "Lord's Resistance Army" based on their name, since they're obviously Christians...without at least first checking their Wikipedia entry. Not to say "it's not the U.S.'s business", btw.

I guess his Nobel Peace Prize was getting bored and needed to be involved in yet another war. Do you think Code Pink will protest THIS one? They still stuck on Bush and Cheney, but wont say a peep about der komander getting us involved in even more conflicts.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 16, 2011 -> 01:53 PM)
I guess his Nobel Peace Prize was getting bored and needed to be involved in yet another war. Do you think Code Pink will protest THIS one? They still stuck on Bush and Cheney, but wont say a peep about der komander getting us involved in even more conflicts.

What is this, 6, 7 countries we're now actively fighting/bombing? I'm war-protested-out.

 

Maybe a top tier tax hike and a few large banks broken up would reenergize me.

Here is what's odd to me. I'm fairly certain that at any given time, the US has military assets in small numbers in probably a dozen or more countries around the globe, doing things much like this. What seems to be different here is, we're announcing it. So the question really should be, why were we told about this one?

 

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 16, 2011 -> 03:16 PM)
Here is what's odd to me. I'm fairly certain that at any given time, the US has military assets in small numbers in probably a dozen or more countries around the globe, doing things much like this. What seems to be different here is, we're announcing it. So the question really should be, why were we told about this one?

The President notified Congress of this, meaning either the Speaker of the House decided to leak it (unlikely) or they consider this a large enough campaign that it couldn't be simply run as a "Black Ops" move.

You gotta wonder what we found in OBL's compound.

hey look over here! :lookatme

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wonder what we are doing over there ------------------------------------------------>

By the way...apparently Congress actually authorized the President to take steps including military against the LRA last year in the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act.

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