Obama Orders US Troops Into Uganda’s Civil War – 1973 War Powers Act Now Irreparably In Tatters (UPDATED)

Generalissimo Barack Hussein Obama

(Via Drudge) ABC News’ Jake Tapper reports that on October 12, Barack Hussein Obama ordered the deployment of one-hundred U.S. military troops to Uganda – with orders to “capture or kill” leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army:

Two days ago President Obama authorized the deployment to Uganda of approximately 100 combat-equipped U.S. forces to help regional forces “remove from the battlefield” – meaning capture or kill – Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and senior leaders of the LRA.

The forces will deploy beginning with a small group and grow over the next month to 100. They will ultimately go to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the permission of those countries.

Bet me it’s only going to grow to one-hundred. One-hundred will grow to thousands. This is exactly how Viet Nam began – with a few military advisors in a third-world civil war. Ten years and over 50,000 American lives later, what did we have? Exactly what we have right now in Afghanistan and Iraq – thousands of troops garrisoned in a land where they aren’t welcome, being picked off one by one in a limited, endless war that cannot be won by the restrictive rules of engagement and David Petraeus’ COIN strategy that have demoralized and handcuffed our best and bravest.

The president made this announcement in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Friday afternoon, saying that “deploying these U.S. Armed Forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and will be a significant contribution toward counter-LRA efforts in central Africa.”

He said that “although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces, and they will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense.”

No. All that this is going to accomplish is to further weaken and demoralize our already exhausted military services. Anyone really believe these troops are not going into combat ops? But, that’s really a part of the grand scheme, anyway – to completely break this country, financially, spiritually, and militarily .

So, in summation, let’s take a look at what’s really happened.

1) Obama sent our air forces into Libya’s civil war without even consulting Congress.

2) No one raised his voice in objection.

3) Every member of Congress on both sides of the aisle is scared of this despot who has pulled off a de facto coup.

4) Since he’s been allowed without consequence to break the War Powers Act of 1973 in that instance, this is the next logical step in shredding the entire fabric of the law and the Constitutional limits on the Executive branch. Send the troops into another war, without seeking Congressional approval. Simply tell the Speaker of the House what he’s going to do.

And why not? The legislators and the majority of the federal judiciary are all terrified, or they’re in on it – the ultimate dissolution and “fundamental transformation” of a Constitutional Republic.

UPDATE: For Michelle Malkin’s take on the issue and the text of Obama’s letter to House Speaker John Boehner:

http://michellemalkin.com/2011/10/14/friday-war-document-dump-obama-sends-troops-to-africa/

As a follow-up to Oklahoma GOP Senator James Inhofe’s statement in support of Obama’s decision, it is most interesting to note that Inhofe’s announcement alludes to H.R. 2478: Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009. The bill was sponsored by Inhofe, and from the wording of the announcement, anyone who hasn’t done any checking could assume it’s the law and that Obama’s just enforcing it. You can read the act here.

There’s only one problem. According to Govtrack.us , the bill died in committee in May of 2009 and never even reached the floor of the Senate for debate. It’s not the law. It’s a bad idea.

So, now I ask you: Why is Republican Senator James Inhofe’s press release so grotesquely misleading as to make us believe that this new war into which Obama sends our troops is in accordance with the law?

UPDATE: On further digging, the bill was resurrected, sponsored by Democrat Russ Feingold, and signed into law on May 24, 2010 by Barack Obama. You can read it here. It’s still a bad idea.

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John Lloyd Work has taken the detective thriller genre and woven an occasional political thread throughout his books, morphing what was once considered an arena reserved for pure fiction into believable, terrifying, futuristic, true-to-life “faction”. He traveled the uniformed patrolman’s path, answering brutal domestic violence calls, high speed chases, homicides, suicides, armed robberies, breaking up bar fights, and the accompanying sporadic unpredictable moments of terror - which eventually come to all police officers, sometimes when least expected. He gradually absorbed the hard fact that the greatest danger a cop faces comes in the form of day-to-day encounters with emotionally disturbed, highly intoxicated people. Those experiences can wear a cop down, grinding on his own emotions and psyche. Prolonged exposure to the worst of people and people at their worst can soon make him believe that the world is a sewer. That police officer’s reality is a common thread throughout Work’s crime fiction books. Following his graduation from high school, Work studied music and became a professional performer, conductor and teacher. Life made a sudden, unexpected turn when, one afternoon in 1976, his cousin, who eventually became the Chief of the Ontario, California, Police Department, talked him into riding along during a patrol shift. The musician was hooked into becoming a police officer. After working for two years as a reserve officer in Southern California and in Boulder, Colorado, he joined the Longmont, Colorado Police Department. Work served there for seven years, investigating crimes as a patrolman, detective and patrol sergeant. In 1989 he joined the Adams County, Colorado Sheriff’s Office, where he soon learned that locking a criminal up inside a jail or prison does not put him out of business. As a sheriff’s detective he investigated hundreds of crimes, including eleven contract murder conspiracies which originated “inside the walls”. While serving on the Adams County North Metro Gang Task Force and as a member of the Colorado Security Threat Intelligence Network Group (STING), Work designed a seminar on how a criminal’s mind formulates his victim selection strategy. Over a period of six years he taught that class in sheriff’s academies and colleges throughout Colorado. He saw the world of crime both inside the walls and out on the streets. His final experiences in the criminal law field were with the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office, where for nearly two years he investigated felonies from the defense side of the Courtroom. Twenty-two years of observing human nature at its worst, combined with watching some profound changes in America’s culture and political institutions, provided plenty of material for his first three books. A self-published author, he just finished writing his tenth thriller.

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