DU's Eve of Destruction Thread
Ok so it is not that good.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5027080Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-14-11 01:59 PM
Original message
Obama Sends 100 US Troops to Uganda to Combat Lord’s Resistance Army
Source: ABC News
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 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.â€
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.â€
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/obama-send... /
First up
xchrom (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-14-11 02:00 PM
Response to Original message
1. how much will this cost? nt
lsewpershad (906 posts) Fri Oct-14-11 04:20 PM
Response to Reply #1
54. Cost is not all that matters
Why does the US feel it has the right to insert itself in every conflict in the world? My god when are we going to stop working for the military-industrial complex?
DUmmies and blind pigs each find an acorn from time to time.
razorman (945 posts) Fri Oct-14-11 04:24 PM
Response to Reply #3
56. Holy crap. After all our bitching about Bush's wars, now Obama has gotten us involved
in four conflicts on his own. Libya, Egypt, Somalia, and now Uganda. We don't have any business interfering in any of those places. At least no more business than in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why can't we simply mind our own business?
And of course not all blind pigs find acorns, some find tinfoil
Javaman (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-14-11 03:39 PM
Response to Reply #4
40. We need oil to run the military...
they are the single largest user of fossil fuels in the United States. The Air Force alone accounts for the lion share.
We go to war for oil to fuel the military's need to go to war for oil.
and here is the money shot
Rebubula (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-14-11 03:09 PM
Response to Reply #27
30. Yup...
...just like Vietnam.
Sorry...the world is full of suffering and we cannot help them all.
Going into a shithole like Uganda is just the start of another war...
The western world it is explodin....
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-14-11 03:06 PM
Response to Reply #24
28. Six not counting these places. Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq,
Somalia, Yemen, Libya. Oh, and Colombia should be counted so that's seven.
pasto76 (763 posts) Fri Oct-14-11 05:51 PM
Response to Reply #64
76. Yes. To help people. To stop wholesale slaughter. So people can have a regular life.
politicians **** this up regularly. But the ideal, is why every single one of us wear a uniform.
This is the kind of deployment I would volunteer for.
Sure and I am getting a Skittle $hitting Unicorn for Christmas, Santa promised.
