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So Obama is trying to take out out of two wars and put us in another?

Posted by lileve (aka lileve) Oct 14 '11, 11:27

From CNN e-mail blast:
"President Barack Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help hunt down the leaders of the notoriously violent Lord's Resistance Army.

"I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield," Obama said in letter to the House Speaker John Boehner and Daniel Inouye, president pro tempore of the Senate. Obama was making a reference to the head of the guerrilla group.

"I believe that deploying these U.S. Armed Forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and will be a significant contribution toward counter-LRA efforts in central Africa."

U.S. military personnel will advise regional forces working to target Kony and other senior leaders. The president said the troops will not engage Lord's Resistance Army forces "unless necessary for self-de fense."

Obama said the United States has backed regional military efforts since 2008 to go after the group, but these efforts have been unsuccessful.

Obama notes that the Lord's Resistance Army "has murdered, raped, and kidnapped tens of thousands of men, women, and children in central Africa" and "continues to commit atrocities across the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan that have a disproportionate impact on regional security.

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Responses:

Good for him. - Stephen Oct 14, 11:45 2
- Blink twice if you are under duress...thrice if you're having a stroke. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 14, 11:45 1
  - heh - Stephen Oct 14, 11:53
Mop? -- nm - The Ruiner Oct 14, 11:38 1
- No, no. My post was about the last war Obama got us into. -- nm - Mop (196 lbs) Oct 14, 11:42
I wonder if he consulted with the African Union first? Hes got to tread carefully here as he might upset Africans and their leaders... - Walt_Disney Oct 14, 11:34 1
- Is the AU still backing Qadaffi? They were basically his continental puppet regime. -- nm - Mop (196 lbs) Oct 14, 11:46
remember what happened when we ignored Rwanda? -- nm - slutty werewolf demon cheerleader loosilu Oct 14, 11:31
well he is a muslem so i guess he fights the lord even in africa -- nm - Danedukenuuk Oct 14, 11:30
I wouldn't even call that a kerfuffle. That's exactly the kind of stuff our military should be doing, IMO. -- nm - TWuG Oct 14, 11:29 1
- This. Those 100 soldiers will probably do more in a week then what's been doen there in years. -- nm - MDH Oct 14, 11:39
~ take two steps, take one step back ~ -- nm - Frandinstein Oct 14, 11:29
100 troops? - Will Hunting Oct 14, 11:28 9
- Yes. They are going to get massacred. -- nm - lileve Oct 14, 11:34 3
  - Who? Our troops? Or the LRA? If it's the LRA, then excuse me while I fail to shed any tears for murders and rapists reaping what they sow. -- nm - TWuG Oct 14, 11:36
  - I doubt it. He didn't send 100 18yr olds into battle; these 100 guys are probably about the cream of the crop - Will Hunting Oct 14, 11:36
  - do you think they will fight everyone by themselves? They will advise, work with and train our allies. -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 14, 11:35
- Your IM may be all that's needed. -- nm - Roger More Oct 14, 11:33 1
  - Exactly. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 14, 11:36
- yeah, I don't get that. -- nm - slutty werewolf demon cheerleader loosilu Oct 14, 11:30 2
  - For the mission, we don't need much more likely. - Will Hunting Oct 14, 11:37 1
    - they don't say what the mission is, but I have to believe you're right. -- nm - slutty werewolf demon cheerleader loosilu Oct 14, 11:45
how dare he try and stop rape and genocide on a continental scale. -- nm - Evil Beaker Oct 14, 11:28
Are you counting Libya? -- nm - Strongbad Oct 14, 11:28 2
- plus Yemen and Pakistan. -- nm - slutty werewolf demon cheerleader loosilu Oct 14, 11:30
- ...er... three. -- nm - lileve Oct 14, 11:29

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