[PGR88]

American Super Cops to the rescue!

[MrB]

How many rounds of ammo is this going to take?

[null and void]

Send them to the hot zone, some will get infected, bring those back here, because it's just not fair that Africa gets to hog all the Ebola.

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[Carry_Okie]

No, they’re there to bring it back.

[Paulie]

Their return will mark the beginning of the pandemic in the lower 48.

It’s there for all to see, but no one lifts a finger to stop the madness.

[Navy Patriot]

Thousands of American troops headed to Africa to fight… Ebola?

This will work out well.

...

From Mohammed's point of view.

[Mamzelle]

I am convinced this is a way to bring the plague to both our military and the US. Mad, mad...

[MeshugeMikey]

[BunnySlippers]

Absurd! Our troops are not doctors for the most part. They should not be asked to fight an illness in Africa.

[cripplecreek]

So what happens when those troops are confronted with a desperate machete wielding mob many of whom may be infected with Ebola?

Will they be allowed to fire to defend themselves? Will they face charges if they do? What will those governments say?

[grania]

Uhhh...a repiratory disease spread through the US as schools opened this year. One has to assume its source is the hordes of Central Americans and others in the schools. So how about the US military protecting OUR borders?

DC Senators and HOR are not going to step up. They'll just wait and use all of Obama's bad actions (they're all bad) as election issues. The nation doesn't have time for their inaction.

Oh, and about that medical assistance? How about taking care of the needs of US Veterans?

[dfwgator]

Obama learned nothing from history.

The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 was mainly fueled by soldiers returning from Europe after WWI.

Now Obama is knowingly sending them into a pandemic area. What could possibly go wrong?

[Paine in the Neck]

A huge factor in the spread of the Spanish flu pandemic was the return of troops from the European theater where the flu was rampant and their dispersal throughout the US upon repatriation. So, it’s a good idea to send thousands of US troops into Ebola’s heartland and then bring them back stateside.

[Jack Hammer]

Yet another troop commitment calculated to expend American lives based on the misapprehension that forces are to serve as a sort of Global Advertisement for How Nice the President Can Be, rather than, quite simply, to maintain American national security in a dangerous world.

Obama wants to be sure that everyone is looking at him “wanting to save the world.”

And who cares if our American kids die horribly from a virulent and terrifying disease which has nothing to do with them, or us.

[Nip]

Okay, let me get this straight.

The Emperor is sending 3,000 troops into an area of an active pandemic. And they are going to setting up and support multiple field hospitals.

If that is correct this means they are hospital support personnel - everything it takes to set up a hospital less medical personnel. BTW - these are the same ones that we would need to set up similar field hospitals within the US if the pandemic spreads into North America.

One more thought - who is going to protect these dispersed 3,000 American personnel from local, and “previously unknown”, Islamic Terrorist groups?

This piece of political posturing isn’t going to have a happy ending.

[falcon99]

Let’s see, this POS is sending troops to Africa but will not put any on our border to protect against the invasion from Mexico. And what the the Joint Chiefs doing? The CJCS has his nose so far up Obama’s but, he hasn’t seen the light of day in years.

[onedoug]

Another opportunity for soetoro to murder Americans.

[GOPJ]

We’ve spent billions of dollars in that hellhole attempting to ‘create jobs’. Give ‘em the money to protect themselves. This will create jobs.

Of course Africans aren’t stupid.

They don’t want jobs in Ebola zones. That’s for stupid Americans with a President who’s an effing idiot.

[vetvetdoug]

Here in the US back in 1975, the USAF and US Army veterinary technicians were used to stem a VVND outbreak in California (Newcastle’s Disease). The USAF Veterinary service was instrumental in stemming the Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis outbreak in 1971. These were here in the CONUS. I have reservations about the US heading for this area as nothing good will come of it. Many are Muslims and the others just hate us.

[mjp]

If one wants to destroy a country he hates, having soldiers catch ebola and bring it back here is a good idea.