Obama Sends 100 US Troops to Uganda to Help Combat Lord’s Resistance Army

ABC News ^ | 10 oct 2011 | Jake Tapper

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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.”

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The so-called “Lord’s Resistance Army” is basically a large drug fueled gang which uses children as “soldiers” and whose only policy is to loot, rape, murder and destroy.

Sounds like they have a lot in common with our current crop of politicians.