Sooooo the US deployed troops & drones to Niger

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The only contradictions are yours. One week I hear Obama's a pussy and won't do shit against anybody, and the next week ur saying omg omg we're getting involved in another 3rd world shithole. SO what is it?

1) Is he a pacifist pussy

or

2) Another warmongering american POTUS?


time to put on the big boy hat and take a stance on something.

Ok. I'll play for a while. Its not my fault that you have the reading comprehension skills of a snail with a lobotomy.
You don't understand sarcasm.

Barry marketed himself a peace loving apologist. Which his mindless followers, like yourself, bought into. I have maintained that he is a war mongering mass murderer who is just as bad or worse than Bush form the beginning of his presidency when he kept Gates on as Defense Secretary and stepped up drone strikes on Pakistan. And especially after Libya.

I shamefully admit that I was a Bush supporter in the beginning of his presidency until I realized everything he was about was bullshit. But I saw the writing on the wall and abandoned the Republican party years ago. Because I can admit when I'm wrong. Unlike you, even when its brutally obvious that you are.

 

[wootoom]

Can I Niger?

 

[jnevin]

Not too early for golf.

Go look at how much tax money he spent this past week for his little Tiger Woods meatup down in Florida....

Yeah, but he paid for his round on his own.

 

[bigbassturd]

Yeah, but he paid for his round on his own.

Lmao I bet he did...

 

[pin]

Chad is involved now.

Africa

At least 13 Chadian troops and 65 rebels killed in fierce clashes in Ifoghas mountains, Chad's military says.
23 Feb 2013 07:36

Two suicide car bombers targeted ethnic Tuareg forces in the northern town of Tessalit, killing three people [AFP]

At least 13 Chadian soldiers have been killed in fighting in northern Mali, the heaviest casualties sustained by French-led African troops since the launch of a military campaign against rebels last month, Chad's army has said.

Sixty-five rebel fighters were also killed in the clashes that began before midday on Friday in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains near the border with Algeria.

"The provisional toll is ... on the enemy's side, five vehicles destroyed and 65 terrorists killed," said a statement from the army general staff read on state radio. "We deplore the deaths of 13 of our valiant soldiers."

Earlier this month, Chad deployed 1,800 soldiers in the northern city of Kidal to secure what had been the rebels' last urban stronghold, putting itself in the frontline in the fight against the rebels.

Also on Friday, two suicide car bombers targeted ethnic Tuareg forces in the northern town of Tessalit, killing three people.

"The two [suicide bombers] were killed and in our ranks there were three dead and four seriously wounded," Mohamed Ibrahim Ag Asseleh, a spokesman for the ethnic Tuareg rebel group, the MNLA, in Burkina Faso confirmed.

Tuaregs in the north, who have long sought greater autonomy, rebelled against the federal government and swept across northern Mali in April last year, taking advantage of a power vacuum left by a military coup.

However, the MNLA and other Tuareg groups were sidelined by armed groups such as the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), who took over major towns of northern Mali and imposed Islamic law.

The MNLA blamed Friday's car bomb attacks on the MUJAO.


In-depth coverage of intensifying confrontation in north
The MUJAO made no comment on the latest attacks, but on Thursday it said that it was responsible for another car bomb in Kidal.

US drones

France intervened in its former West African colony on January 11 to stop a southward offensive by the rebels who seized control of vast swaths of the north in April last year.

Troops from neighboring African nations - including from Chad - have since deployed to Mali and are set to take over leadership of the operation when French forces begin a planned withdrawal next month.

However, continuing violence since the rebels were driven from major urban areas highlights the risk of French and African forces becoming entangled in a prolonged conflict as they try to help Mali's weak army counter bombings and armed raids.

A US defense official said on Friday that Washington had deployed several Predator drones to Niger to fly surveillance missions in support of French forces in Mali.

 

[wootoom]

Chad is involved now.

Africa

At least 13 Chadian troops and 65 rebels killed in fierce clashes in Ifoghas mountains, Chad's military says.
23 Feb 2013 07:36

Two suicide car bombers targeted ethnic Tuareg forces in the northern town of Tessalit, killing three people [AFP]

At least 13 Chadian soldiers have been killed in fighting in northern Mali, the heaviest casualties sustained by French-led African troops since the launch of a military campaign against rebels last month, Chad's army has said.

Sixty-five rebel fighters were also killed in the clashes that began before midday on Friday in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains near the border with Algeria.

"The provisional toll is ... on the enemy's side, five vehicles destroyed and 65 terrorists killed," said a statement from the army general staff read on state radio. "We deplore the deaths of 13 of our valiant soldiers."

Earlier this month, Chad deployed 1,800 soldiers in the northern city of Kidal to secure what had been the rebels' last urban stronghold, putting itself in the frontline in the fight against the rebels.

Also on Friday, two suicide car bombers targeted ethnic Tuareg forces in the northern town of Tessalit, killing three people.

"The two [suicide bombers] were killed and in our ranks there were three dead and four seriously wounded," Mohamed Ibrahim Ag Asseleh, a spokesman for the ethnic Tuareg rebel group, the MNLA, in Burkina Faso confirmed.

Tuaregs in the north, who have long sought greater autonomy, rebelled against the federal government and swept across northern Mali in April last year, taking advantage of a power vacuum left by a military coup.

However, the MNLA and other Tuareg groups were sidelined by armed groups such as the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), who took over major towns of northern Mali and imposed Islamic law.

The MNLA blamed Friday's car bomb attacks on the MUJAO.


In-depth coverage of intensifying confrontation in north
The MUJAO made no comment on the latest attacks, but on Thursday it said that it was responsible for another car bomb in Kidal.

US drones

France intervened in its former West African colony on January 11 to stop a southward offensive by the rebels who seized control of vast swaths of the north in April last year.

Troops from neighboring African nations - including from Chad - have since deployed to Mali and are set to take over leadership of the operation when French forces begin a planned withdrawal next month.

However, continuing violence since the rebels were driven from major urban areas highlights the risk of French and African forces becoming entangled in a prolonged conflict as they try to help Mali's weak army counter bombings and armed raids.

A US defense official said on Friday that Washington had deployed several Predator drones to Niger to fly surveillance missions in support of French forces in Mali.

Who cares

 

[pin]

Who cares

Me

 

[wootoom]

What are you gonna do about it. Nothing. There is always gonna be a war. Haven't you got used to this by now?

 

[pin]

What are you gonna do about it. Nothing. There is always gonna be a war. Haven't you got used to this by now?

All true. But I don't have to like it.

 

[wootoom]

I don't either I'm just buggin...it's a fucking joke