Posted on 10/16/2014 2:31:03 PM PDT by shove_it
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday authorized the Pentagon to call up reserve and National Guard troops if they are needed to assist in the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Obama signed an executive order that allows the government to call up more forces and for longer periods of time than currently authorized. There is no actual call-up at this point...
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I suspect the call-up is legitimate, but the pretense is FALSE. These troops are probably actually intended to suppress rioting and mayhem in the big cities once Ebola gets out and the economy crashes.
Isn’t the National Guard for defending us here at home?
What are they going to do?
Shoot people?
Obama is such a dum-bass.
Every time he does something totally outrageous, he DOUBLES DOWN!!
How are they going to fight this germ?
I am imagining a TV sitcom about a military unit (something like Sgt Bilko) made up of nothing but gays.
For example...just imagine a gay drill sgt.
I’d go AWOL before I’d be sent to Africa.
fta: “The U.S. has committed to send up to 4,000 military personnel to West Africa to provide logistics and humanitarian assistance and help build treatment units to confront the rapidly spreading and deadly virus.”
PresIDent 0bama wouldn’t tell a lie, would he?
Agreed.
Really? I don't.
Honestly, if I were Guardsman, I would not go. Period.
Liberia has a sizeable population of Sunni Muslims (sympathetic to ISIS). They may have more than just Ebola to worry about.
Like I said before, someone in Liberia and/or Brussels wants those flights to continue. They shut down the flights for a short period last summer but reopened them in late August or early September due to “pressure” from Brussels. Follow the money.
But the American people are not behind him on this. How can it benefit the moron? Or the Morozombie democrats?
There’s so much shit we don’t know, it’s terrifying.
Exactly what Obama has in mind.
What you day, SJB
Unless Liberia, Sierra Leone, et al are actually among the 50+ States, the National Guard has absolutely NO business being deployed there…
The national guard should say no and placed on our southern border by a new leader. Obama needs to be removed by congress.
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