Now, up until today, most Americans have never heard of the combat Lord’s Resistance Army. And here we are at war with them. Have you ever heard of Lord’s Resistance Army, Dawn? How about you, Brian? Snerdley, have you? You never heard of Lord’s Resistance Army? Well, proves my contention, most Americans have never heard of it, and here we are at war with them. Lord’s Resistance Army are Christians. It means God. I was only kidding. Lord’s Resistance Army are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them. That’s what the lingo means, “to help regional forces remove from the battlefield,” meaning capture or kill. [...]

Lord’s Resistance Army objectives. I have them here. “To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people.” Now, again Lord’s Resistance Army is who Obama sent troops to help nations wipe out. The objectives of the Lord’s Resistance Army, what they’re trying to accomplish with their military action in these countries is the following: “To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people; to fight for the immediate restoration of the competitive multiparty democracy in Uganda; to see an end to gross violation of human rights and dignity of Ugandans; to ensure the restoration of peace and security in Uganda, to ensure unity, sovereignty, and economic prosperity beneficial to all Ugandans, and to bring to an end the repressive policy of deliberate marginalization of groups of people who may not agree with the LRA ideology.” Those are the objectives of the group that we are fighting, or who are being fought and we are joining in the effort to remove them from the battlefield.

I think reasonable people can disagree as to whether or not chasing a relatively small band of depraved mass murderers around central africa is a reasonable thing for American military personel to be doing. But let’s make no mistake—these are depraved mass murderers. And yet Rush Limbaugh is pleased to welcome them as fellow Christian allies.

j.mills wrote:Well, now that I've read their objectives, I must say the scales have fallen from my eyes. Forcing children into battle, terrorising them, making them hack a friend to death with a machete to prove their loyalty, chopping hands of anyone who might one day disagree with them... all of these things are easily overlooked now that I know that they're working towards multiparty democracy. I must dash off a note of thanks to Mr Limbaugh for his penetrating insight. Why hasn't he been made a Dame yet?

chairman bill wrote:So when is he going to be called on this by the media? Surely even Fox News is going to point out the idiocy of this man, isn't it?

In May 2009, U.S. President Obama signed into law the Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act,[46] legislation aimed at stopping Joseph Kony and the LRA. The bill passed unanimously in the Senate on March 11, 2010 with 65 Senators as cosponsors, then passed unanimously in the House of Representatives on May 13, 2010 with 202 Representatives as cosponsors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army

GT2211 wrote:Rush Limbaugh aside...what is everyone's opinion on the US involvement in this? I have read that this is likely a political payback to Uganda for helping deal with Al-Qaeda in and around Somalia. Conservatives and liberals seemed to be pretty mixed on this though it seems to me anyway.

GT2211 wrote:Rush Limbaugh aside...what is everyone's opinion on the US involvement in this? I have read that this is likely a political payback to Uganda for helping deal with Al-Qaeda in and around Somalia. Conservatives and liberals seemed to be pretty mixed on this though it seems to me anyway.

Loren Michael wrote:

GT2211 wrote:Rush Limbaugh aside...what is everyone's opinion on the US involvement in this? I have read that this is likely a political payback to Uganda for helping deal with Al-Qaeda in and around Somalia. Conservatives and liberals seemed to be pretty mixed on this though it seems to me anyway.

Bullets and manpower well-spent. The LRA is clearly awful and needs to be eliminated.