President Obama put troops into Africa to rid the planet and the area around Uganda & Sudan of one of the most evil groups of terrorists you’re likely to ever learn about. From a Christianity Today article from 2006:
Sixty years after Allied soldiers liberated the Nazi death camps, the world stands silent in the face of another holocaust—one so horrifying that U.N. officials call it “one of the worst human-rights crises of the past century.”
The perpetrators commit atrocities with such malevolence that even the most irreligious people familiar with their acts describe them as “unrestrained evil.” The targets of the butchery are children. They rape, mutilate, and kill them with a rapaciousness that staggers the imagination. Worse, they compel children to kill one another and their own families, fighting as “soldiers” in an armed force deliberately composed of children.
Perhaps the greatest atrocity is teaching these children that they spread this carnage by the power of the Holy Spirit to purify the “unrepentant,” twisting Christianity into a religion of horror to their victims. It is spiritual warfare at its very worst, and it could not be more satanic.
Religion of Evil
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is one of the larger terrorist organizations in the world. It has killed more people than many other violent groups, yet few Westerners have ever heard of it, since nearly all its violence is perpetrated in the border region between Uganda and Sudan in East Africa.
On a continent plagued with endless guerilla warfare, where war crimes are standard fighting fare, the LRA stands apart as an especially odious group. LRA crimes against humanity are so repulsive that its only former ally, the Islamic government of Sudan, jettisoned its relationship with the LRA to improve Sudan’s international relations.
I’m about as antiwar as a person can be but do you stand by and let this happen? When a small contingent of Americans can do something tangible about it? I’ll come down on the side of “hell no”. If you disagree with that, I’d ask you to read through the Christianity Today article and then come back and chat. I warn you, once you get past the first page, you had better have a strong stomach and a steely heart. You’re gonna need it.
There’s a sample after the jump. Be warned, it’s rough.
LRA child soldiers attack villages, shooting and cutting off people’s lips, ears, hands, feet, or breasts, at times force-feeding the severed body parts to victims’ families. Some cut open the bellies of pregnant women and tear their babies out. Men and women are gang-raped. As a warning to those who might report them to Ugandan authorities, they bore holes in the lips of victims and padlock them shut. Victims are burned alive or beaten to death with machetes and clubs. The murderous task is considered properly executed only when the victim is mutilated beyond recognition and his or her blood spatters the killer’s clothing.
These are children doing these things. Children forced to do so by some insanely evil people.
So, am I okay with President Obama sending 100 our soldiers over there to cut the head off of this evil, beast? Hell yes, I am. Hell yes.
Why the HELL did Obama put troops in Africa? To send demons back to Hell.
And, yeah, Limbaugh defended them today because they’re “Christians”.
UPDATE: I have a follow-up piece at Eclectablog that has a video response to Limbaugh from a 19-year girl who is a survivor of the LRA along with additional information. I commend your attention to it.
Cross-posted from Eclectablog.
Rush Limbaugh is a fuckwad of the highest order to use this as another reason to bash the president. I’m with you. If we can do something about the LRA, we have to do it. It’s heartbreaking.
Maybe President Obama ought to send old Limp Rush over there to become acquainted with the LRA kind of up-close-and-personal?
They’d tire themselves out trying to hack that bloated gasbag to pieces, just because there’s so much of him, and, well, we’d be rid of him once and for all.
I actually saw a fairly important left wing source suggest today that it was because of a recent oil discovery, and my mind could barely take it in.
“Why the HELL did Obama put troops in Africa? To send demons back to Hell.” <- That’s it, right there.
Recently I had the good fortune to meet and listen to the words of Rev. Peter Tibi, Executive Director of RECONCILE – a peace-making organization in South Sudan. The atrocities South Sudan has seen are very real, and the atrocities committed in Uganda are even greater in number.
Sudanese churches seek action on Lord’s Resistance Army
http://74.50.9.49/home/1-news-a-analysis/11171-sudanese-churches-seek-action-on-lords-resistance-army.html
what’s wild is that i ask some other people of color who have bought into Obama-bashing full on about this group and they’ve NEVER HEARD OF THEM. and these were people saying no more than 6 months ago that ‘Obama needs to do more for Africans.’ some people just want to drink the Kool-Aid.
Rush defended this…wow…I knew he was batshit but damn…
Thank you, ABL!
THANKS ABL
Again, Obama is about getting the job done and to hell with the haters. Would the Mau-Mau Left rather Obama sit on his hands until the very end like Bill Clinton did in the Sudan?
If there was a group of ethnic Eastern Europeans slaughtering their countrymen over religion – we’d have bombed their asses back to the stone age by now. Not that I advocate violence, but only the most cynical isolationists or the most ardent peacenik would allow war atrocities to go on and do nothing.
But that’s the case of many angry lefties -always looking for a CIA/Corporatist angle in everything.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MJ18Dj06.html
And your point is?
I cheered when I found out that President Obama was sending troops. My best friend is a humanitarian aid worker in that region and I have been hearing the horror stories and worrying for her safety. She called this action a “game changer” and is damned glad for it even as they worry about reprisals.
There are some people on the left who cannot appreciate that there are appropriate uses of US force that are without cynical motivations.
I am soo glad i found your site! This is such an important issue and i am proud of our president for sending troops where they are TRULY needed, and i am a non-violent activist. As the descendant of people who were executed, babies cut from their wombs, breasts made in to tobacco pouches, uteruses made into hats, measles and smallpox blankets deliberately given to make sure that especially children would die.(“nits make lice”), I share your righteous rage and will spread this message to the four directions! Nya:weh Skannon! (I honor you and I am thankful) Melissa