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Obama: US Military Could Help in Ebola Fight
voanews.com ^ | September 07, 2014 11:27 AM

Posted on 09/07/2014 11:21:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin

U.S. President Barack Obama says the U.S. military would help in the fight against the Ebola virus in West Africa, which has killed more than 2,000 people.

Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, Obama said U.S. military assets were needed to set up isolation units and equipment, and provide security for international health workers. He said he believed the United States needed to make dealing with the Ebola outbreak a national security priority.

He warned that it would still take months to control the epidemic and said that if efforts were not made now the outbreak could spread across Africa and around the world.

Meanwhile, authorities in Sierra Leone are ordering people to stay at home for three days this month as part of an effort to stop the spread of the Ebola virus, which has killed more than 2,000 people in West Africa.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: ebola; moroninchief
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To: Mercat

Exactly my first thought. He never touches the military without meaning to harm it in some way.


41 posted on 09/07/2014 12:48:04 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: BenLurkin

WHAT?!? How about putting the US military on the border to stop it and every other disease ridden vermin from coming over.


42 posted on 09/07/2014 12:49:13 PM PDT by bgill
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To: mrsmel

Wanna bet their deployment will be very short so they can potentially bring it back home quicker?


43 posted on 09/07/2014 12:56:48 PM PDT by bgill
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To: BenLurkin
He's always been one of the swords to ploughshare idiots.

They were surrounding the Kearny Mesa Convair plant in the 80's demanding that we quit making Tomahawks and start making school busses.

Useless idiots.

44 posted on 09/07/2014 12:57:59 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: hadaclueonce
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45 posted on 09/07/2014 1:04:57 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: manc

“Anyone seen the Navy commercial ?” You mean the one that talks about the U.S. Navy being a “global force for good” and fighting injustice around the world? They make me want to throw up.

I would prefer an ad that goes something like this: “We’re the United States Navy and if you threaten our country, we’ll nuke your ass so fast, you won’t know what hit you.”


46 posted on 09/07/2014 1:10:56 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: BenLurkin

Again showing his complete lack of understanding and abject contempt for our military.


47 posted on 09/07/2014 1:21:06 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, US soldiers in MOPP4 gear, decontaminating Liberians. That’ll work...


48 posted on 09/07/2014 1:22:54 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

This foul commie is hell bent to getting us all killled.


49 posted on 09/07/2014 1:23:20 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: BenLurkin

Beyond stupid.


50 posted on 09/07/2014 1:31:25 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Dark Wing

The US military providing air transport of masks, gloves and protective suits for medical staff in the affected areas would help a lot. Civilian air transport is refusing to fly any cargoes into Liberia, etc.


51 posted on 09/07/2014 1:48:56 PM PDT by Thud
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To: BenLurkin

The military, primarily the U.S.Army is involved, and always is with Ebola, but we don’t need to be sending line troops in to be exposed.

“Army Colonel James Cummings, a doctor and director of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System in the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, said the battle against the virus since the outbreak began in West Africa in March focuses on trying to stop disease transmission.

“We had a large footprint in Africa,” Cummings said of the Defense Department’s response to the first Ebola cases reported in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. Since that time, the Defense Department has answered numerous calls for assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO), nongovernmental organizations and ministries of heath and defense, he said.”


52 posted on 09/07/2014 1:49:06 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: BenLurkin

This is a very bad idea.


53 posted on 09/07/2014 1:52:27 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: BenLurkin

I think he is on the right track just the wrong choice. He needs to send the Surgeon General and his army of CDC, NIH, USPHS, etc. personnel to Africa. As the Surgeon General, Boris should be in the first landing craft and lead the way. I hate to think as Surgeon General he would sit at home cringing in the face of an opportunity to excel!


54 posted on 09/07/2014 1:57:28 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Consistency: Every (all) top level manager in the Administration is a pathological liar.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Retiring just in time.

T-23 days.


55 posted on 09/07/2014 2:20:30 PM PDT by Gamecock (Not responsible for errors resulting from posting via my "smart" phone.)
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To: BenLurkin

Sure NASA is heling the muzzies feel good why not. And besides here is the best way of allowing the ebloa virus to infect our military leaving us ttaly defenceless


56 posted on 09/07/2014 2:43:13 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping…

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

57 posted on 09/07/2014 3:17:38 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Ask the Navy about Fukushima.

AFAIK, they aren't saying much. Will gladly be directed to more info.

58 posted on 09/07/2014 3:24:20 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: BenLurkin
Yeah, that's the ticket. Get our military involved and get them hopelessly riddled with Ebola.

Goodbye, USA...

59 posted on 09/07/2014 3:31:27 PM PDT by Gritty (To remain free, a people need the spirit of liberty. Once lost, there's no easy roads back.-Mk Steyn)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

That wouldn’t surprise me.


60 posted on 09/07/2014 3:36:08 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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