One of the most disengenuous, craven and brainless examples of "Obama be against it so we be for it," is Rush Limbaugh's knee jerk opposition to Obama sending US military trainers to Uganda to help shut down the Lord's Resistance Army, a brutal crypto-Christian band of thugs.
(photo: Joseph Kony)
Under the headline: “Obama Invades Uganda, Targets Christians.” The transcript reads,
"So that’s a new war, folks, a hundred troops to wipe out Christians in Sudan, Uganda and – (interruption) no, I’m not kidding.”
"The Lord's Resistance Army are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops! to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them."
We have a natural aversion and distrust for anyone who calls themselves "The Lord's" anything, but if the big, fat liar had used the google machine he might have learned that the LRA has been called, a “notorious and brutal death cult” by Foreign Policy magazine.
The LRA leader, Joseph Kony, has been accused of war crimes and is wanted by the International Criminal Court. In recent years, he's dropped any pretense of a political agenda and his marauding troops have crossed the Ugandan and central African hinterlands raping, killing and maiming the innocent citizenry.
It's a movement based on religion and brutality, Kony is a self-styled mystic and prophet, and like Limbaugh claims to be fighting on orders from God. Kony wants to establish theocratic rule based on the Biblical Ten Commandments.
Foreign Policy’s website reported Oct. 15, that Graeme Wood of the Atlantic once wrote: “An American diplomat in [the Central African Republic] compared the group to the Manson family, but given that the LRA has killed 12,000 people, the comparison is self-evidently unfair to Manson.”
We're distrustful of any new incursion in a far off land, and we were surprised at first glance that Limbaugh accused Obama of “invading” Uganda. But of course it's not ingenuous, Rush's isolationism is pure politics. The politics of "I hate Obama."
Jesus, Rush: when did you get all isolationist on us? You were such a quiet little neoconservative when George Bush was declaring war on Iraq and tooling up for what turned out to be 9 years of the most dubious, costly and probably futile wars in history.
Rush Limbaugh would support the raping of underage boys in the Dominican Republic if Obama was against it.
Or, I should say, Rush Limbaugh does support the raping of underage boys in the Dominican Republic. It is just a plus to him that Obama is against it.
Posted by: JDB | October 25, 2011 at 11:56 AM
Well, he's right, you know?
Posted by: JimF | October 25, 2011 at 02:41 PM
I am skeptical of Obama's latest military adventure, in that the LRA has been raping and pillaging for 25 years; why act now? Because there's an election next year, and you can never be fighting too many wars in an election year? So even though the LRA is an awful outfit, I'm dubious.
That said, Uganda is 84% Christian; thus, the LRA's victims are primarily Christian, not Muslim. The LRA itself is a personality cult, no more Christian than Hitler was, and its crimes are just as appalling. Even if Limbaugh is on the right side of the issue, his reasons are so transparently bogus that even dittoheads should know better. He's so full of shit on this one it's coming out his - well, you know...
Posted by: Pete | October 25, 2011 at 02:52 PM
How many times must I say it folks, Limbaugh like my master is all about ratings and controversy and he has proven that one begets the other. To actually take him seriously is akin to believing in the tooth fairy. He is an aging and deteriorating entertainer who is striving to hang on to his popularity and thus will push provocative stances as long as he thinks it will generate interest (be it genuine or superfluous critical interest). Rush uses politics as a tool simply to enhance his ridiculous statements and see to what limit he can push the extreme. Obviously it works.
Posted by: StarTheWonderDog | October 25, 2011 at 03:36 PM
Let's cut to the chase - don't care whether Limbaugh is for it or against it, like Pete I am skeptical of this venture. Seems like a mission like this of a greater magnitude should have occurred to Darfur at least 3-5 years ago - both Bush and Obama have been negligent about this up to now.
My question is did the UN provoke him into doing this ? I am not a supporter of the modern day UN, although the UN back in the 60's might have shown to be for the greater good, the modern day UN has a proclivity toward rogue nations and dictatoral governments and is feckless when it comes to policing large scale violence such as Darfur. Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and of course Russia and China are involved in the UN, as they were back in the 60's, but the politics have become worse.
Posted by: KS | October 25, 2011 at 07:01 PM
Give it a name with a religious connotation and a whole lot of religious folk will gravitate toward it. Reminds me when I was growing up in the Midwest and a popular radio and TV personality had the name of Rev Mullins. Folks thought it was so wonderful KMBC hired a minister. Never mind that Rev was short for his given name of Reverdy
Posted by: Cueburner | October 26, 2011 at 11:02 AM