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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:02 AM Original message |
President Obama deploys "armed advisers" to Uganda. |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
1. well shit |
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razorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
2. Yes. This does seem familiar, doesn't it? What exactly is our national interest in Uganda? |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:32 AM Response to Reply #2 |
15. Here ya go - |
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razorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 11:45 AM Response to Reply #15 |
28. I think I know what you mean. We always hear that we are sending troops here or there |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 11:49 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. The whole "democracy" and "freedom" cries are just a smokescreen - |
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razorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 12:44 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. It's human nature, and will not change. Wars have always been fought because someone has what |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 01:34 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Reactionary crap. It is capitalist nature - and if we had an economic |
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polly7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:34 AM Response to Reply #2 |
18. U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
3. Will they be looking for the Ho-Chi-Minh Trail? Or, later, the Light at the End of the Tunnel? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:16 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Your forgot "Peace with honor" |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
4. Maybe we don't have |
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:16 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Not even close. This is a government that wants to not only outlaw homosexuality, it wants to |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:21 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Sounds like a lot of bad players |
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:27 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. It's members of our govenment that are pushing such policies within Uganda. Besides, if we really |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:32 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Can you please provide |
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:59 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Here's a good place to start. |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 11:11 AM Response to Reply #6 |
22. And thats horrible, but is THAT the criteria for sending our troops to a country? |
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Exilednight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 11:25 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. I'm not sure as to what our reasons are anymore. n/t |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 11:45 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. And that is why I think we should STOP sending troops anywhere. |
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Harmony Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 11:16 AM Response to Reply #6 |
24. This is why the U.S. needs to stay out of this |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:16 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. And, may I add... |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:18 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. I really hope you are right. |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:33 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. See my post #15 - it's the oil |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 11:12 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Oil. Its always the oil, isn't it. |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 11:50 AM Response to Reply #23 |
31. Yes, as long as profit is the motive they'll be chasing it - |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:33 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. lolol .... nt |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
5. How many new wars did we get into this week? |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
11. Vietnam and Korea started that way, too... |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:25 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. That is what I was alluding to in the OP. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 10:36 AM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Yeah, I figured you were |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
21. Desperate. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
26. His marching orders come from Henry M Stanley. |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
27. Sounds like PEACEKEEPING to me. |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 11:53 AM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Yup, "peacekeeping" for Shell, Exxon, BP, etc... |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 02:24 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. Shhh!! |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
33. Based upon the information that you presented, the deployment is right. |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 12:24 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Then you also support doing the same an many oater countries with such "evil" people? |
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Aerows (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-15-11 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
36. OIL |
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