ABC News’ Jake Tapper and Luis Martinez report:
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.”
Friday, October 14, 2011
Oh, goody, another war......
Via Randy's Right
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Obama needs to be arrested, tried, convicted and hanged.
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He just wants a little more time, so he can have our troops in every country in the world with Russian troops here and then he'll be ready......
ReplyDeleteA Democrat president sending 'advisers' into a civil war...where have I heard that before?
ReplyDeleteGee, let's see, maybe in Grimm's Fairy Tales.....?:)
ReplyDeleteIt seems Viet Nam started this way. Our forefathers said to not get involved in foreign entanglements!
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