Now we are in Uganda

  • MrGiz
  • 10-18-2011, 12:09 AM
. . . . What, pray tell, is our national interest in Uganda? I guess we sort of have a humanitarian interest and perhaps a mild security interest in seeing that it, like any country, just doesn't completely go to shit. But I don't think it would be very high on my list of worried every day if I woke up at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Originally Posted by TexTushHog
Much the same feelings I have... especially after spending a year in West Africa in the mid 90's.* Having known of the Ugandan situation for a long time... I have continued to be surprised that it has taken the U.S. this long to become involved at "some" level!

Call me cold and callous... but one of my recommendations has always been to send sharpening stones to Uganda. If you're going to chop my head off with a machete... please do it with a sharp one... rather than having to hack-hack-hack away!

Can anyone please tell me of any "good news " that come from the African Continent in our lifetime?* I can only think of "one" example....
Charlize Theron!!
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Dick Tiger?
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Hakeem Olajuwon.
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  • WTF
  • 10-18-2011, 06:48 AM
There will be unless the "bring home the troops" ladies win the discussion.
. Originally Posted by LexusLover


You are correct, it is a debate between, "bring home the troops" ladies and neo-conic liberal gayrods.


Which camp are you in LL? Because a neo-con is just a fuc'n former liberal nation builder Democrat that is now a Republican nation building liberal. Nation Building is a liberal endeavor.
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Which camp are you in LL? Originally Posted by WTF
Are you referring to your ego-centrally tailored "camps" that you are so infamous for creating in an attempt to direct a discussion so that you can always profess "victory"?

If so, none of the above.

But we know what "camp" you are in:

.... the "bring home the troops" ladies' camp!

Another loser.
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Can anyone please tell me of any "good news " that come from the African Continent in our lifetime?* Originally Posted by MrGiz
Diamonds.
And more recently probably the largest oil reserves on Earth.

And as for all of those whining about spending U.S. "treasure" on producing oil overseas .... who would you rather have the oil?

China
Russia
Europe
United States
_______________ (Write in your favorite oil consuming nation)
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So you admit that our military is being used to support the oil companies? People are dying so the oil companies can profit? And you support this?
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  • WTF
  • 10-18-2011, 09:21 AM
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So you admit that our military is being used to support the oil companies? People are dying so the oil companies can profit? And you support this? Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Of course he does. The sad part is he is not smart enough to realize that oil is a world resource that all those other countries could never use. Without our consumption the price of oil would be 10 dollars and the ME countries wouldn't have shit by way of money. They need us amore than we need them. We would all be driving smaller crs but the flip side is we would not have dead soldiers in that part of the world protecting oil profits.
  • MrGiz
  • 10-18-2011, 01:09 PM
WTF do Oil Company profits have to do with Uganda and it's LRA problem?

NOTHING!!
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WTF does Uganda have to do with US vital interests?

NOTHING!
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So you admit that our military is being used to support the oil companies? People are dying so the oil companies can profit? And you support this? Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
I didn't know that this was ever in dispute. How else can you explain Iraq? Or even Kuwait, for that matter.
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  • WTF
  • 10-18-2011, 08:38 PM
WTF do Oil Company profits have to do with Uganda and it's LRA problem?

NOTHING!! Originally Posted by MrGiz

You posted this...
Can anyone please tell me of any "good news " that come from the African Continent in our lifetime?* I can only think of "one" example....
Charlize Theron!! Originally Posted by MrGiz
Lexus quoted you and wrote this...
Diamonds.
And more recently probably the largest oil reserves on Earth.

And as for all of those whining about spending U.S. "treasure" on producing oil overseas .... who would you rather have the oil?

China
Russia
Europe
United States
_______________ (Write in your favorite oil consuming nation) Originally Posted by LexusLover

Then COG responded to LL post.
So you admit that our military is being used to support the oil companies? People are dying so the oil companies can profit? And you support this? Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Then I responded
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Of course he does. The sad part is he is not smart enough to realize that oil is a world resource that all those other countries could never use. Without our consumption the price of oil would be 10 dollars and the ME countries wouldn't have shit by way of money. They need us amore than we need them. We would all be driving smaller crs but the flip side is we would not have dead soldiers in that part of the world protecting oil profits. Originally Posted by WTF

Then you ask this stupid question after being the one who brought up Africa instead of staying on topic with Uganda. Please try and keep up, I know you can as I can't keep leading you around by the britch's!
WTF do Oil Company profits have to do with Uganda and it's LRA problem?

NOTHING!! Originally Posted by MrGiz
  • MrGiz
  • 10-18-2011, 09:13 PM
You posted this...
Lexus quoted you and wrote this...



Then COG responded to LL post.
Then I responded


Then you ask this stupid question after being the one who brought up Africa instead of staying on topic with Uganda. Please try and keep up, I know you can as I can't keep leading you around by the britch's! Originally Posted by WTF
AND.... you still haven't answered the simplest question!!

Oil Company Profits = Uganda? . . . . WTF?

I didn't "bring up" a f'ing thing to do with Africa... Perhaps you missed the original topic of this thread. . . . UGANDA!! * Unless, that is... you don't realize Uganda is on the African Continent!!

BTW..... how much time have you spent in Africa?

If you cannot recognize the "tongue in cheek" Charlize Theron comment.... nevermind...
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Ok, at least we have now determined that some on here support sending American troops in harms way in order to protect oil company profits. I don't.
  • MrGiz
  • 10-18-2011, 10:36 PM
Ok, at least we have now determined that some on here support sending American troops in harms way in order to protect oil company profits. I don't. Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
WRONG THREAD!!

As TTH inferred.... at best, the Ugandan / LRA situation is a humanitarian dilemma... one that has gone on for a long time.... Joseph Kony is a POS that needs to "cease to exist"!* Whether it's our (USA's) responsibility to see that it happens , or not?... I agree... but therein, lies the dilemma