According to The New Vision, President Museveni has said the war in northern Uganda was primarily against the Sudanese government, not the LRA. "I hear people talking of 20 years of conflict with Kony. I don't want a narrow understanding of this affair. Our fight was not with Kony but with the Arabs of Khartoum who made a big mistake of underestimating us," Museveni said. "They (Sudanese) discovered that we were not the usual Black Africans. If you create problems for us we create more problems for you."