no sweat. it wasn’t like I really felt it or nothin’.

Just figured I might guilt you into buying me a free lunch.

My bad.

Yeah and you shouldn’t have stepped on my head when I was napping.

heterochromatic,

That was you?

@ PatH,

sometimes I’m in the bar all day drinking beer, and forget that.

heterochromatic,

You know theres no such thing as a ‘free lunch’.

PatH—-and well they should, Pat, well they should.

heterochromatic,

I don’t really know what people living in Africa think of Obama

They are thinking about that ‘free lunch’ America brings to the table.

Oceanna—

—-” What does Obama represent to the Africans now, 
besides colonialism?”———

I don’t really know what people living in Africa think of Obama,  and I sure as heck
don’t think that you have any real reason or evidence to say that he’s thought to
represent colonialism.

“the “stated objective” is kill/capture the LRA leadership and end the ability of
the LRA to fight.”

I don’t disagree that’s accurate or true.  It’s a credible assertion. 

This so-called humanitarian and limited intervention on the African continent has
become an established meme.  What does Obama represent to the Africans now, 
besides colonialism?

PEPE ESCOBAR HAS AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE IN TODAYS ASIA TIMES ON
THIS SUBJECT…

UGANDA WHERE CILD SOLDIERS ARE GROWN DAILY OBAMA
FIRST SAID “NO US AID TO UGANDA BECAUSE OF CHILD
SOLDIER POLICY” LAST MINUTE HE CHANGED HIS MIND AND
SAID J"JUST ONE MORE TIME; GIVE THEM THE MONEY”
A YEAR LATER HE SENDS 100 special ops THE BEST TO GO
AFTER ONE MAN AN AFRICAN NOT USA CITIZEN: BLACK OBAMA
LOOKING VERY WHITE.
2DAYS OF DRONE ATTACKS 100 DEAD, 3 COUNTRIES LONG
DISTANCE IS OBAMITO STYLT YET HERE TROOPS; ANWAR WAS
DRONED; OSAMA BEN LADEN BOMBED; UGANDA TROOPS ON THE
GROUND! HA HA CIA GEN.D.BETRAYUS ON THE MOVE SILENT
and EFFECTIVE! SEC.CLINTON SPEECH, OCT 12,c-span;
said"GLOBAL LEADERSHIP IN OUR DNA”?? WOW! WHO IS THE
NAZI NOW! IN OUR GENETICS, WOW! SUPERIOR GENETICS HA
HA AMERICAN NAZIS KILLING TORTURE LIES IN YOUR DNA!
so SAYS SEC.CLINTON…..... FELLOW SLAVES!

====Have you suggested
committing combat forces against minors and children? =====

I suggested destroying the group and have no great enthusiasm for combat
against children, but understand that the child soldiers of the LRA are armed
and they shoot any they kill, maim and abduct innocents. If it comes down to
it, I find using military force against underage “soldiers” victimizing innocents
justified.

=====Destroying the LRA was certainly not among the stated objectives of
sending American troops.======

what? what do you think to be the objective behind sending troops to train
other troops to fight the LRA?

the “stated objective” is kill/capture the LRA leadership and end the ability of
the LRA to fight.

I take it fro granted that achieving the objectives necessarily results in the
destruction of that “Army”

“Do you wish us to understand that
destroying an horrific group of murders is itself a predation?”

FYI.  Destroying the LRA was certainly not among the stated objectives of
sending American troops.  The Ugandan president has stressed, perhaps in an
attempt to mollify fears in his country of an American invasion, that the troops
are non-combat as the Obama administration has. 

Your enthusiasm about destroying and obviously killing off the LRA, fortunately,
has not been advocated by anyone but yourself.  Further FYI and a well known
fact—the LRA is composed significantly of children! Have you suggested
committing combat forces against minors and children? 

BTW,  an unequivocal yes to YOUR question.

Dang!  Is that mister Jon Voight in blackface?  Looks like he’s found his true calling. I always thought that he and Alan Keyes should elope to Puerto Valarta.

Oceanna, i wasn’t clear about what you might have meant when you seemed to
say that military advisors to aid the effort to rid Africa of the LRA was
inconsistent with humanitarianism.

Or how you reckon that having oil and other natural resources
in the area makes the deployment of 100 Americans illegitimate.

Or why it’s apparent to you that “...the country’s vast resources are not
supposed to belong to the Ugandans.”  Do you wish us to understand that
destroying an horrific group of murders is itself a predation?

I’m not quite clear on your meaning.

“OBAMA IS NOT A WISE BUS DRIVER”

That’s true.  A bus driver should see the signs, anticipate what’s ahead, and feel a
sense of responsibility for the safety and well being of the bus’s passengers,
instead of the whims and demands of his perceived bosses in that now proverbial
1%.

OBAMA IS DRIVING THE BUS…AND COLIN POWELL SAID WHEN A
SOUTHERN STATE HIRED ITS FIRST BLACK BUS DRIVER THE BLACKS PRAYED
HE WOULDN’T WRECK IT…OBAMA IS NOT A WISE BUS DRIVER…

Oops!  Grammatical errors.

Not surprisingly, the news I’ve come across is fragmented.  The troops are
being presented both as combat-ready and advisors.  The mission is being
defined as being humanitarian and national-security oriented.  It’s easy to
eliminate the inconsistencies presented—namely, advisors and humanitarian. 

Yes, Uganda is swimming in oil that hasn’t even been tapped yet.  Last month
there were some apparent difficulties in allocating it out to major, international
oil companies.  All that is on hold.  There is a lot of gold and also water for
hydropower.  Apparently, the country’s vast resources are not supposed to
belong to the Ugandans.

PNAC is still the driving rationale behind military expansion.  It (PNAC) is like a
junkie’s rationalization for unlimited oil and power and a major stimulus for a
kind of self-feeding mania.  The current dynamics are like an insanity that
denies its limitations and own inevitable self-destruction. 

Ever feel like you’re a passenger on a bus driven and chartered by crazies that’s
heading for a cliff while most of the passengers remain unaware or asleep?

Actually; it’s more like 4 countries;
“The first of the troops arrived in Uganda on
Wednesday, the White House said, and others will be
sent to South Sudan, the Central African Republic and
the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

The article is here;

http://tinyurl.com/62n9f6q

So what strategic interests are behind this “humanitarian interventionism” ?

There must be something there that some U.S. corporation wants.

Obama still earning his Nobel Peacr Prize by militarizing the globe.