Lets invade Uganda!Follow

Next up on the garden spot of the world US invasion tour? Sunny Uganda! I guess we got tired og blowing up the islamic terrorists, now we're going after the christian ones. Bhuddist terrorists are next!

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/world/africa/africa-obama-troops/
Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to Africa to help hunt down the leaders of the notoriously violent Lord's Resistance Army in and around Uganda.

"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 sent Friday to House Speaker John Boehner and Daniel Inouye, the president pro tempore of the Senate. Kony is the head of the Lord's Resistance Army.

U.S. military personnel advising regional forces working to target Kony and other senior leaders will not engage Kony's forces "unless necessary for self-defense," Obama said.

"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."

Obama notes that the group "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."

The State Department says that "since 2008 alone, the LRA has killed more than 2,400 people and abducted more than 3,400. The United Nations estimates that over 380,000 people are displaced across the region because of LRA activity."

Obama said the United States since 2008 has backed regional military efforts to go after the Lord's Resistance Army. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that since that time the United States has provided more than $40 million in support.

But efforts to combat the LRA have been unsuccessful.

Obama cites the Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009. In that, Congress "expressed support for increased, comprehensive U.S. efforts to help mitigate and eliminate the threat posed by the LRA to civilians and regional stability."

"I have directed this deployment, which is in the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States, pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct U.S. foreign relations and as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive. I am making this report as part of my efforts to keep the Congress fully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution," he said. "I appreciate the support of the Congress in this action."

Obama said the initial team of U.S. military personnel with appropriate combat equipment deployed to Uganda" on Wednesday. Other forces deploying include "a second combat-equipped team and associated headquarters, communications, and logistics personnel."

"Our forces will provide information, advice, and assistance to select partner nation forces. Subject to the approval of each respective host nation, elements of these U.S. forces will deploy into Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The support provided by U.S. forces will enhance regional efforts against the LRA. "

One member of Congress, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, weighed in to support the effort.

"I applaud our nation's military for making this a priority and taking the steps outlined in our legislation that will eventually protect the children and people from Joseph Kony's reign of terror," Inhofe said.

"I have witnessed firsthand the devastation caused by the LRA, and this will help end Kony's heinous acts that have created a human rights crisis in Africa. We must work to bring justice to the children and victims in Uganda devastated by Kony and the LRA. I have been fervently involved in trying to prevent further abductions and murders of Ugandan children, and today's action offers hope that the end of the LRA is in sight."

Kony claims he is a prophet sent from God to replace the Ugandan government with a democracy based on the Ten Commandments.

The website GlobalSecurity.org says the group has been "notorious for kidnapping children and forcing them to become rebel fighters or concubines."

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Kony and four other group leaders for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Campo said that the "LRA is an involuntary army and the majority of the fighters are formerly abducted children. "

Obama's plan in dealing with the LRA calls for increasing "protection of civilians," apprehending or removing Kony and senior LRA commanders from the battlefield, promoting the "defection, disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of remaining LRA fighters" and increasing "humanitarian access."

Representatives of 34 groups in the LRA-affected areas of northern Congo, Central African Republic, and Southern Sudan wrote Obama in December, applauded his commitment to tackle the problem, and urged him to deal with the group, according to Human Rights Watch.

"Each day that goes by without a solution to the problem of the LRA is another day of terror and pain for those of us living under constant threat of renewed attacks. Already, the LRA has brutally killed more than 2,300 of our family members and abducted over 3,000 others since they began their latest wave of killings in September 2008," the letter said.

"Many of our children are still in the hands of the LRA. We do not know if they are alive or dead. Those who have managed to escape the LRA bear the physical and mental scars of what they have suffered and will never be the same again. We have few means to help them readjust and integrate back into our communities, but we are trying to do what we can."

The letter cites massacres in 2008 and 2009.

"During these attacks, our family members were killed in unimaginably savage ways: their heads crushed with clubs or machetes; their faces disfigured; and their genitals, mouths, ears, legs and arms cut off, for no reason other than to terrorize."

Sure, they're bad... but what's the catch? There are a lot of bad people in the world, but the US doesn't usually send in troops, so I'm wondering what else we might be interested in?

... or maybe he just saw "The Book of Mormom" musical and decided to declare war on warlords?

Edit:


Obama's obviously a Muslim seeking overthrow a Christian ruler!!!

Edited, Oct 14th 2011 3:40pm by LockeColeMA

Using the US military to advance muslim interests. What sell out, he should be impeached. He is a radical Towel head. I demand to see his real long form birth certificate. It is obvious this is a slippery slope that Obama will never recover from, he is in bed with the enemy.

Find this, because I don't remember it at all and I'm really curious. Milosevic killed Christians in Egypt?

And what in f*ck-all does this have to do with Uganda besides being the same continent?

*Milosevic is the correct spelling if you want to use the search function, by the way. Go to it.

Edited, Oct 14th 2011 4:47pm by LockeColeMA

I think the thrust of it is that Kony is a dick and a bad dude. Congress passed a bill in 2010 (unanimously in both chambers) authorizing the president to work with the regional authorities to stop the guy so this isn't some Libya-esque scenario.

If you're so inclined, you can read the bill text (including the "findings" justifying the legislation here.

Edited, Oct 14th 2011 6:45pm by Jophiel

tl; dr

why, exactly?

does shooting people make anywhere a better place to live?

damn you're good

Maybe I should go downtown and look around for varus tomorrow. I mean, how many middle-aged men are down there with a dog, cruising for guys? don't answer that

The bombs were to ensure that Oak Ridge was built.

What a gloriously tolerant comment.

You seem to indicate that you believe that violence can solve violence. Is that the case?

Zanzibaarian cosmetics

Sometimes it is the case. Sometimes allowing the initial violence to go on is intolerable. Can an argument be made that we resort to it too much? Certainly. But it is absolutely naive to suggest we should never use violence against an aggressor.

Rush Limbaugh: Obama invades Uganda, Targets Christians

Now I know where Pubbies get this stuff from. The best part is Rush spending the segment going on about how the Lord's Resistance Army is a bunch of Christians fighting against oppression and, at the end, says "Wait... These guys are accused of all sorts of atrocities? Well, maybe... OBAMA IS FIGHTING CHRISTIANS!"

Sadly, you can't make shit like that up.

Honestly, I think it is naive to believe that anyone outside of America would buy that America uses its soldiers to do anything but bolster American interests. Americans believe that but I somehow doubt the ordinary people in the countries you are invading feel like you are liberating them.

After you've been the playground bully for awhile it is hard to sell the story that you're beating people up in the yard to stop an aggressor.

Edited, Oct 15th 2011 9:04am by Olorinus

Are you ever going to make a comment relevant to the topic at hand, or are you just going to keep talking about how much you dislike America and how violence isn't the answer?

I think it's already been made clear that the only thing she supposes is ignorance.

I am. I don't like having to differentiate between the two. Should just be one country.

You're working unusually hard to avoid admitting this isn't any "invasion" but then you did the same with our "ally" in Pakistan. Weird, but whatever.

As far as I know, the standing government of Uganda is the recognized government by the US and UN. The US enjoys pretty good relations these days with Uganda according to the State Department. So if they ask us to swing on by, it ain't invading.

Plus, it's a regional effort where the troops are being split among four different nations (Uganda, South Sudan, Central African Republic, & Democratic Republic of the Congo). Man, Rush totally missed a chance to praise Obama for saving the Christian people of South Sudan!

By the way, when did I claim we were invading Pakistan?

Here

Edit: To be fair, the poorly written story used the word "invasion" even if Obama did not.

Edited, Oct 15th 2011 9:46pm by Jophiel

You spend your days smoking weed paid for by the Canadian government. Yeah, they might be idiots.

I thought in the past that you said it was covered by the govt. My bad, and I apologize. If you are spending your own money on it, then cheers!