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Obama sending combat troops to central Africa to aid fight against rebels
CNN ^ | October 14th, 2011 | CNN

Posted on 10/14/2011 11:09:02 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

President Obama has deployed combat troops to central Africa to aid in the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army. In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, Obama says 12 troops with "appropriate combat equipment" were deployed on October 12 and approximately 100 in total will be deployed including a second combat team and headquarters, communications and logistics personnel. The forces will provide information and advise and assist "select partner nation forces," Obama explains. The troops will not fight except in self-defense. The full letter is after the jump.

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To: Berlin_Freeper

That is 100 more troops than obama has sent to the Mexican border to protect AMERICANS.

shows where his loyalties are.


61 posted on 10/14/2011 12:25:33 PM PDT by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: penelopesire

“I can assure you that Obama’s motives are nefarious. If the guy has such a ragtag ‘cultish’ group..why can’t the people take care of this themselves? We can’t be running all over the planet doing humanitarian wars that have no US national security implications. What could possibly be our national security interests in Africa? I just don’t buy it at all.”

Its obvious. I seen movies like this. Crazy Kony made some sort of deal with the devil and now owes him his due but relinquished on his debt. So now Satan has his true prodigy he has been breeding, Obama, take out all the little guys he set up who are getting too comfy and then consolidating power under Obama.


62 posted on 10/14/2011 12:27:55 PM PDT by BlackSeal
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To: Berlin_Freeper; SunkenCiv; Jeff Head; Impy; TigersEye; floriduh voter; snippy_about_it; ovrtaxt; ...

Graphic Vid Allegedly Shows Coptic Christian Girl Being Sexually Assaulted to ‘Islamize Her’.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/graphic-vid-allegedly-shows-coptic-christian-girl-being-sexualy-assaulted-in-order-to-islamize-her/
Jun 9, 2011 ... CONTENT WARNING: this story contains graphic images that may be disturbing to some. While the woman’s nudity has been blacked out and ...

Bolton: Obama Calls For Restraint From Egyptian Christians As They’re Being Killed (Video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2790849/posts
[Arab Spring alert]

Persecution of Christians
http://www.bereanpublishers.com/Persecution_of_Christians/persecution_of_christians.htm&sa=U&ei=dYuYTueJDobW0QHJ1d2gBA&ved=0CBYQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNGqZokrjT9Obt19CZOGiCc7PvxCKw
Africa. MASSACRE AT NYANKUNDE. By Dr. William Clemmer ... He tells of
nursing mother’s breasts cut off so they can’t feed their babies, of men being ...
warns of the potential slaughter of thousands of Christians by Muslims who
threaten to ...

[No, kill Christians. Call me sceptical: the Christian thugs have saints for enemies? They probably have some swamp land for sale too.]


63 posted on 10/14/2011 12:30:58 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
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To: ThomasMore
A footnote to my post:

I disdain Obama for all that he stands for and believes. I question the way he utilizes our precious military. But this Kony guy and the LRA are bad bad bad news. Possible evil incarnate from all the mayhem, murder and suffering he has caused in central Africa.

64 posted on 10/14/2011 12:31:32 PM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: ThomasMore

“But this Kony guy and the LRA are bad bad bad news.”

Are his enemies saints? And is he wosrse than all the muslim thugs in Africa?


65 posted on 10/14/2011 12:32:46 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
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To: ThomasMore

OK, so we already wiped out the muslim thugs in Africa I presume.


66 posted on 10/14/2011 12:34:56 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
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To: indylindy
Exactly right, indy.

Christian resistence fighters to be 'eliminated' by peacenik Obama.

Where's the outrage, America??

67 posted on 10/14/2011 12:39:27 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: LachlanMinnesota

Thanks for the info. I was mistaken about this group.


68 posted on 10/14/2011 12:41:17 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This a$$hat needs to be impeached.


69 posted on 10/14/2011 12:43:09 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: BlackSeal

“Its obvious. I seen movies like this. Crazy Kony made some sort of deal with the devil and now owes him his due but relinquished on his debt. So now Satan has his true prodigy he has been breeding, Obama, take out all the little guys he set up who are getting too comfy and then consolidate power under Obama.”

I just remembered what movie it was like! Like Star Wars!

Emperor (Satan) -> Vadar (Obama) -> Trade Federation (Kony)


70 posted on 10/14/2011 12:47:01 PM PDT by BlackSeal
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
I pass no judgment on this. But the facts about this guy stand on their own. They are not “Christians” fighting for Christian beliefs nor Christians freedom against Muslims. They are a fanatical group of ideologists which are no better than Islamofascisits.

Obama is wrong to continually send out our troops, on “humanitarian” ventures, on his own. But this thread started out by painting the LRA as some bunch of “freedom fighters” we should be supporting. Sorry, I know better.

71 posted on 10/14/2011 12:48:52 PM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: ohioWfan

We both found out, but I still think Obama is a hypocrite who picked on Bush for war, but now it seems he likes it so much more and for all the wrong reasons.


72 posted on 10/14/2011 12:49:05 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

The LRA has been supported by the Islamic government in Khartoum for decades. The Sudan and Uganda have been engaged in their own form of Cold War since the 1990’s. The LRA was one of Sudan’s proxies to attack Uganda during the time of the recent Congo Wars. The LRA is one of the worst of the worst in the worst place on Earth. Unfortunatly, like we all do at times, Rush Limbaugh was talking about a subject he knows zero about. So he has given his listeners some worthless information.


73 posted on 10/14/2011 12:49:16 PM PDT by gusty
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To: LachlanMinnesota

Please ask your daughter how many muslim thugs Obama took out in Africa before this.


74 posted on 10/14/2011 12:49:49 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
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To: LachlanMinnesota

Why now?

Maybe he wants his press to demonize Christians?

Even tho he/they know this group is lead by a self-proclaimed mystic?

Prob a campaign tactic.


75 posted on 10/14/2011 12:52:25 PM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: gusty

Sure, Obama found a good “bitter clinger” straw man to point out and tear up — some goon in the middle of nowhere, easy to attack. But I still want to know — what muslim thuggery has Barrack [Do not name] Obama taken on in Africa?


76 posted on 10/14/2011 12:55:28 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
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To: roses of sharon

“Maybe he wants his press to demonize Christians?”

Bingo. He had to wag the dog somewhere.


77 posted on 10/14/2011 12:56:28 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (George Washington: [Government] is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

The Nobel War-is-Peace Prize.

Orwell was only off by 25 years or so.


78 posted on 10/14/2011 12:58:00 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: indylindy
Oh, absolutely. I just wonder what, in his twisted thinking, is the rationale for doing this?

Maybe the distraction from Fast and Furious suggested above is it.

The hypocrisy of the anti-war crowd is also on display. No protests about Libya, or the escalation in Afghanistan. And there will be no protests about this.

We're waging war in Central Africa for no reason. May God protect our troops from their 'commander in chief' until he is removed next year. He is a danger to us all.

79 posted on 10/14/2011 12:58:28 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star winner!)
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To: ohioWfan

Darn right. Obama is a danger is too many ways.


80 posted on 10/14/2011 1:01:49 PM PDT by dforest
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