Feingold: sending military advisers to Uganda "consistent with" his legislation.

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/activists-react-to-president-sending-troops-to-africa/

Feingold said, “If the military advisors being deployed by the President are being used to facilitate information and intelligence sharing, including among regional militaries, that is consistent with part of what our bill was seeking. But that mission should be just one piece of a larger strategy that focuses on civilian protection in the broadest sense.”

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1. Really brings into perspective the astoundingly idiotic claim that this is another of "OBAMA'S WARS"

"When President Obama authorized the deployment of 100 armed U.S. troops to Central Africa to help regional armies fight the Lord’s Resistance Army, he referred to legislation he’d signed in 2010 — the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act — which had 64 cosponsors, passed the full Senate by Unanimous Consent and the House by voice vote."

There are a few topics that DU does well and there are some that DU does cringe-inducingly bad. Just about everything I've read on this particular topic falls into that latter category.

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2. Only the far right and insane left are getting their undies in a twist.

Limbaugh thinks it's persecuting Christians, and the Firebaggers think the Feingold legislation was part of a conspiracy to seize oil fields with less than a full company of soldiers.

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4. Pleas from human rights groups, Obama's more than year old law, and Feingold's legislation aside

anyone who thinks that 100 troops (military advisers or not) can secure the oil fields of an entire country is simply too stupid for words.

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5. What you don't understand is that the fact that Obama waited until 2009 to begin taking

action is proof it was about oil.

You can't make this shit up.

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8. Of course, it's absolutely impossible that the delay was due to the military

defining the mission and determining the means to carry it out!

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9. Well, that and Obama took office in 2009, with the Feingold

bill passing in 2010. :)

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3. We're still enjoying that sweet, sweet crude oil

from Bosnia and Kosovo.

And that pipeline through Afghanistan that no one tried to build.

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6. Not sure if serious...

Bosnia and Kosovo are areas where the Western powers dump their waste, and in exchange they erect statues of Clinton and Bush. I feel sorry for that lot, but they know the dangers of dumping waste into the ground which can easily leak into the water table.

Afghanistan has a lot of rare earth minerals.

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7. So, we intervened in the Balkans to get landfill space?

How's that mining in Afghanistan going?

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10. Btw, why do you think they build

those statues?

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11. Nebraska has more rare earth deposits than Afghanistan

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/tiny-village-in-nebraska-hides-worlds-largest-rare-earth-mineral-deposits-2011085/

...and its a bit easier to deal with the local populace.