Posted on 09/16/2014 2:42:15 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Why 3,000? Is this part of Obama’s 9/11 celebration? How many of those 3,000 troops is he hoping will die?
Just wrote my congressman to get out there and call for action to stop this! When you think it can’t get any more outrageous...Obama. Making Jimmy Carter look like George Washington more every day.
“You act like having a few highly disciplined, trained troops sent for containment”
So what are these highly disciplined trained troops supposed to do when a couple hundred people jump the highly contained area, shoot them? Can’t wait to read the headlines on that scenario, oh yeah, we will never hear about it, it’s called OBOLA containment.
Wasn’t it soldiers returning from WWI that were the main cause of the Influenza pandemic in 1918?
Please tell me that's a typo, and not a Freudian slip.
“You people must be kidding.”
Lost me right there. Poor FReeper etiquette.
My take: ebola has gone airborne and this will mostly be a mop-up operation. Troops will be prepared to shoot civilians in a World War Z scenario.
Anybody have any confidence in that bunch of government union affirmative action drones being able to maintain quarantine procedures?
What better way to infect the entire country. What moron is in charge of this country?
Why is Clown Prince nobama, the Unopposed One, not going all in????? Send the troops there in speedos...have them hug the families ill with ebola and kiss them a lot in order to show them that the US soldier has compassion. Have the US troops live with the families as they take care of their dead. It would only be fair to do so.
IMPEACH THE TRAITOR!!!!!!!!!!
The only use for troops in a plague zone is to form a barrier to seal in those affected. Placing them inside a plague zone to serve as police, is merely to expose them also, to a disease for which we have no vaccination.
Didn’t the Marines aid in the evacuation of American citizens and our embassy there a few years ago?
Not a job for our military.
This is the domain of World Health Organization.
Sigh. All this makes me wonder if this is part of The Great Tribulation.
WWI more soldiers died of influenza than combat injuries.
Sure. Then he can declare a national emergency and impose martial law and the rest will be history.
Then when our military becomes ineffective, it will be time for 0bama to have his "civilian army" take over and bring "control" to America, right? How diabolical can it get?
No. What is needed is a strict and serious quarantine of all of these African countries. Do not allow anybody presently in them to travel over their borders. Period. Send them supplies but do not allow any travel to or from these areas.
Sending our military in there is exactly the wrong move which is why the Kenyan is probably doing it. It will end up destroying our military once the infections start.
We have civilians with such experience, gear, and training. The reason that the military is being sent in is that they must follow orders. They have no choice. I doubt very many civilians would volunteer for this mission.
What American assets are they protecting?
So how are a few thousand Americans going to make a difference? The American military is not trained for this mission. We have CDC to perform this function. And where is the rest of the world? This is a grandstanding ploy by Obama.
I hope the winds of ebola blow right up his royal rear.
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