Hey everyone, this is Abby Martin. You're listening to the audio version of this episode,

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possible. Remember that ultra-viral video called Kony 2012 about the Ugandan warlord who recruited child soldiers,

told through the eyes of some dudes from San Diego, and after raking in tens of millions of dollars,

the founder of the group behind the video, Invisible Children, drunkenly admitted to stealing money from donors.

Then the narrator of the video was caught naked on the street corner and a very public meltdown.

Wow, that was really crazy.

But even crazier than all of that is that the Obama administration used Kony 2012's viral video as marketing

to ramp up its military actions in Uganda.

You know, as President Obama said upon signing the Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament

and Northern Uganda Recovery Act last October, we quote,

"...congratulate the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have mobilized to respond to this unique

crisis of conscience.

And I think that this viral video that you mentioned is part of that response.

And today I can announce that our advisors will continue their efforts to bring this madman to justice and to save lives.

It is part of our regional strategy.

Our goal is helping to rid Coney to bring peace and stabilization back to this region so they can go back to the normal lives.

Well, the big kicker to the story is that the Obama team rallied all of this anger and outrage at the Lord's Resistance Army for their atrocities.

In support of the U.S.-backed Ugandan army that was carrying out the same

kinds of war crimes, including mass rape and massacres of civilians, under the command of one of the

world's longest serving dictators, American puppet General Museveni. The U.S. never cared

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