{"id":27026,"date":"2011-10-14T15:55:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27026"},"modified":"2011-10-14T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:55:50","slug":"obama-sends-troops-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27026","title":{"rendered":"Obama sends troops to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the president wrote a letter to Congress today informing them that he sent about 100 combat troops to Africa to hunt an rebel leader, according to a link sent to us by our buddy, jeff Schogol at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/obama-u-s-combat-troops-sent-to-hunt-african-rebel-leader-1.157815\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The initial team of advisors deployed Wednesday, and the number will rise to about 100 during the next month, Obama wrote in a letter to Congress. The first troops were sent to Uganda, but forces could also move into South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, subject to the approval of those nations, Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield,\u201d Obama wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Pentagon claims that the troops will be mainly Special Forces soldiers and they will not be engaged in combat operations outside of an advisory role except to defend themselves. I wish those troops a lot of luck, they&#8217;re probably going to need it since Obama needs a few more military victories before next November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the president wrote a letter to Congress today informing them that he sent about 100 combat &hellip; <a title=\"Obama sends troops to Africa\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27026\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama sends troops to Africa<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}