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No Apology From Rush Limbaugh For Defending 'Christian' Terrorists

Thomas Lane | October 26, 2011, 6:01AM

Rush Limbaugh is nothing if not stubborn. He's now obstinately resisting an international outcry over his incendiary comments about Africa's Lord's Resistance Army.

This band of child-abductors, rapists and killers is acknowledged as bad news by pretty much everyone. Everyone, that is, except for Limbaugh, who took to the air shortly after President Obama announced he was dispatching 100 military advisers to help take them on.

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Rush Limbaugh Hearts Terrorists... As Long As They're Christians

Thomas Lane | October 17, 2011, 5:49PM

We've all heard the saying that "my enemy's enemy is my friend." In Rush Limbaugh's case that's just put him in bed with some rather unsavory characters.

The characters in question are the Lord's Resistance Army - a notorious gang of child abductors, rapists, mutilators, thieves and murderers who have marauded across Africa's "Great Lakes Region" for more than 20 years. President Bush declared them a terrorist organization in 2001, and the U.S. has ramped up its efforts to help African governments battle the group ever since then.

However, now that President Obama has committed 100 combat advisers to the region to help finish them off, the right wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh has suddenly discovered these murderers are in fact princes among men.

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How The U.S. Came To Fight The Lord's Resistance Army

Thomas Lane | October 17, 2011, 5:58AM

Soldiers from the Lord's Resistance Army

Rush Limbaugh's reaction to the news that President Obama was sending 100 combat-ready troops to help fight the Lord's Resistance Army was probably similar to that of many Americans.

Speaking on his radio show last Friday, shortly after the President's letter informing Congress of the deployment had been released, the right wing talk show host did a mini-straw poll among his callers.

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What Is The Lord's Resistance Army?

Thomas Lane | October 14, 2011, 2:41PM

News that the Obama administration is sending combat troops to Uganda hit many in the US as a surprise. The soldiers are heading there with the Ugandan government's approval in order to help combat the Lord's Resistance Army.

That fact will make it less of a shock to Africans hearing this news. They know the LRA as a feared and brutal insurgency.

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Obama Sends 100 Troops To Central Africa To Help Fight LRA

Susan Crabtree | October 14, 2011, 2:25PM

President Obama is sending a total of 100 troops into central Africa to help a resistance movement fight the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group known for committing atrocities across the continent.

The first troops left Wednesday and in the next month additional forces are set to deploy, including a second combat-equipped team, as well as communications and logistics personnel, Obama informed Congressional leaders in a letter sent Friday afternoon. The mission's goal is to remove LRA leader Joseph Kony and his top commanders from the battlefield, according to the letter.

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