{"id":621,"date":"2011-10-18T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/?p=621"},"modified":"2011-10-18T09:19:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T13:19:31","slug":"obama-admits-im-sending-military-advisors-to-uganda-to-protect-the-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/18\/obama-admits-im-sending-military-advisors-to-uganda-to-protect-the-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Admits &#8220;I&#8217;m Sending Military Advisors to Uganda to Protect the Oil&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_622\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/obama-speaking2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-622\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/obama-speaking2.jpg\" alt=\"President Obama Speaking\" title=\"President Obama Speaking\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/obama-speaking2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/obama-speaking2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;We have a duty to protect our Black Gold--oops, Black brothers!&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>(Washington, D.C.) President Obama said in a letter to Congress on Friday that he has authorized the deployment of 100 U.S. special forces to Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>But in what has been seen as a major gaffe, the President mistakenly sent the first draft of his letter, which has been leaked to Fish and Cheese.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We present it here in its entirety:<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m Sending Military Advisors to Uganda to Protect the Oil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you guys all know, we only have a couple thousand gallons of oil left in this country.  And Uganda&#8217;s got what? A couple billion?  That&#8217;s why we need so desperately to get in there.  Before China or somebody else does.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_623\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ugandaLeader.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-623\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ugandaLeader.jpg\" alt=\"Uganda terrorist leader Joseph Kory\" title=\"Uganda terrorist \" width=\"480\" height=\"326\" class=\"size-full wp-image-623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ugandaLeader.jpg 480w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ugandaLeader-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uganda terrorist leader Joseph Kory<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Of course those Lord&#8217;s Army terrorist guys in Uganda that we&#8217;ll be going after are horrible vicious thugs. But let&#8217;s face it, there have been a lot of places where atrocities have been carried out all over the world where we haven&#8217;t even sent in one guy.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If it&#8217;s some place with a bunch of starving folks in the desert, nobody&#8217;s going to care because it doesn&#8217;t serve America&#8217;s interests.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it&#8217;s time to find a new &#8220;evil monster&#8221; out there so we can keep everybody from paying attention to how fucked up things are at home.  You guys can do all the usual &#8220;rally around the flag&#8221; stuff and I&#8217;ll wag the dog.  You pick up some points in the polls and maybe I&#8217;ll get another Nobel Peace Prize or something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So let&#8217;s do the usual: you complain about me overstepping my authority, then we can wait for one of our guys to get killed so we can send in more troops.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_627\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vietnamAdvisor.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-627\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vietnamAdvisor.jpeg\" alt=\"Vietnam Military Advisot\" title=\"Vietnam Military Advisot\" width=\"270\" height=\"346\" class=\"size-full wp-image-627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vietnamAdvisor.jpeg 270w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/vietnamAdvisor-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Goooooooood Morning Vietnam!&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_628\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/John_F._Kennedy_White_House_color_photo_portrait3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-628\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/John_F._Kennedy_White_House_color_photo_portrait3.jpg\" alt=\"John F. Kennedy\" title=\"John F. Kennedy\" width=\"686\" height=\"822\" class=\"size-full wp-image-628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/John_F._Kennedy_White_House_color_photo_portrait3.jpg 686w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/John_F._Kennedy_White_House_color_photo_portrait3-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John F. Kennedy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be just like Kennedy in Vietnam in the early days.  Except I don&#8217;t want to get shot later.  That would suck.  Big time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington, D.C.) President Obama said in a letter to Congress on Friday that he has authorized the deployment of 100 U.S. special forces to Uganda. 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