Obama sends US combat troops to Uganda

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/10/20111014174712102972.html

 

Oh Jesus. I guess they haven't learned from Black Hawk Down.

You can't fight a problem like that. You need to solve it completely.

 

Here we go again, more taxpayers money in the toilet, more americans will die fighting for other countries instead of america, and we are flat ass broke fighting other people's wars. Damn smart i tell ya

 

sending advisors......I think that was the start of viet nam....

 

Remind any one of 1984 the book!

 

You could be right. These troops are supposed to be going in as advisers and we all know how well that worked out in Vietnam. The 100 troops are also supposed to be active in parts of at least 4 countries if I read that right. That's spreading them pretty thin I think.

I was also really surprised by this move because I had not even heard speculation about it.

All that being said however the Obama Administration has been both good and lucky with their military moves so far and they might get one or the other here. I'm just at a loss as to what difference a mere 100 troops can make.

 

Sweet, time to murder some more motha fuckers that cant defend themselves. Remember when obama said he was going to pull out troops? BAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Suckers.

 

It's obvious that this is similar to Libya where human rights are clearly being violated.

At the same time though, they've been being violated there for centuries, first by Europeans and now by fellow countrymen. Why now?

Furthermore, my point is that he's attacking one small part of a hugely shitty problem, a part that only exists because of the fact that their civilizations and way of life were obliterated for no reason other than so people could take what didn't belong to them. They need to be taught how to fish, given the poles, and they need the predatory boats to get the fuck out of the water so they can.. metaphorically speaking.

Just like in Operation Black Hawk Down, they're going to come in, try to liberate people from their oppressors, and find the people not welcoming them with open arms and joining forces to fight the intruders first.

 

Two days ago President Obama authorized the deployment to Uganda of approximately 100 combat-equipped U.S. forces to help regional forces “remove from the battlefield” – meaning capture or kill – Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and senior leaders of the LRA.

 

The forces will deploy beginning with a small group and grow over the next month to 100. They will ultimately go to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the permission of those countries.
The president made this announcement in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Friday afternoon, saying 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.”

 

He said that “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.”
The president said that for more than two decades the LRA has been responsible for having “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 president in his letter noted that Congress passed “the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act,” signed into law on May 24, 2010, in which, the president said, “the Congress also expressed support for increased, comprehensive U.S. efforts to help mitigate and eliminate the threat posed by the LRA to civilians and regional stability.”

 

When the president signed that letter in May 2010, he said the bill “crystallizes the commitment of the United States to help bring an end to the brutality and destruction that have been a hallmark of the LRA across several countries for two decades, and to pursue a future of greater security and hope for the people of central Africa. The Lord’s Resistance Army preys on civilians – killing, raping, and mutilating the people of central Africa; stealing and brutalizing their children; and displacing hundreds of thousands of people. Its leadership, indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, has no agenda and no purpose other than its own survival. It fills its ranks of fighters with the young boys and girls it abducts. By any measure, its actions are an affront to human dignity.”

 

TEAM AMERICA FUCK YA! HERE WE COME TO SAVE THE MOTHA FUCKIN DAY YA! (at the tax payers expense, of course!)

 

So we are going to send troops to Uganda, while we have the country of Iran that wants to wipe Israel of the map and was trying to kill a Saudi Diplomat on U.S soil along with blowing up an embassy in DC. Yeah that makes sense

 

Nothing makes sense anymore...in fact the price of peanuts is about to rise


http://yourlife.usatoday.com/fitnes...ers-pushes-up-prices-for-consumers/50769432/1

 

What's been going on in Africa for decades is one of the worst crimes against humanity in the history of the world. Obviously the people who caused the situation in the first place aren't going to do shit so it's up to us to do something.

I don't agree with simply giving military support or sending troops, but I do agree that something has needed to be done for far too long now.

 

What about the mother fuckers who are starving, poor, and need healthcare in AMERICA?

Naw lets help Africa, the country that still can't figure out how to stop spreading AIDS.

 

I hope you realise that the people who caused the situation in Uganda, are in fact the Ugandan's themselves..

Here is an interesting link to the country of Uganda, which also explains a lot about their troubles. Bearing in mind that Uganda gained independence from Great Britain in 1962...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda

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Uganda gained independence from Britain in 1962, maintaining its Commonwealth membership. The first post-independence election, held in 1962, was won by an alliance between the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) and Kabaka Yekka (KY). UPC and KY formed the first post-independence government with Milton Obote as executive Prime Minister, the Buganda Kabaka (King) Edward Muteesa II holding the largely ceremonial position of President[11][12] and William Wilberforce Nadiope, the Kyabazinga (paramount chief) of Busoga, as Vice President.[citation needed]
In 1966, following a power struggle between the Obote-led government and King Muteesa, the UPC-dominated Parliament changed the constitution and removed the ceremonial president and vice president. In 1967, a new constitution proclaimed Uganda a republic and abolished the traditional kingdoms. Without first calling elections, Obote was declared the executive President.[13]
After a military coup in 1971, Obote was deposed from power and the dictator Idi Amin seized control of the country. Amin ruled Uganda with the military for the next eight years[14] and carried out mass killings within the country to maintain his rule. An estimated 300,000 Ugandans lost their lives at the hands of his regime.[15] Aside from his brutalities, he forcibly removed the entrepreneurial South Asian minority from Uganda, which left the country's economy in ruins.[16] Amin's atrocities were graphically accounted in the 1977 book, "A State of Blood," which was written by one of his former ministers after he fled the country.
Amin's reign was ended after the Uganda-Tanzania War in 1979 in which Tanzanian forces aided by Ugandan exiles invaded Uganda. This led to the return of Obote, who was deposed once more in 1985 by General Tito Okello. Okello ruled for six months until he was deposed after the so called "bush war" by the National Resistance Army (NRA) operating under the leadership of the current president, Yoweri Museveni, and various rebel groups, including the Federal Democratic Movement of Andrew Kayiira, and another belonging to John Nkwaanga.
Museveni has been in power since 1986. In the mid to late 1990s, he was lauded by the West as part of a new generation of African leaders.[17] His presidency has included involvement in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other conflicts in the Great Lakes region, as well as the civil war against the Lord's Resistance Army, which has been guilty of numerous crimes against humanity including child slavery and mass murder. Conflict in northern Uganda has killed thousands and displaced millions.[citation needed]

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Whitewashing again I see?

No.. you're fucking responsible for this.

And we're cleaning up yet another one of you Europeans' messes.