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Obama Says He Will Send US Troops to West Africa to Help Ebola Epidemic as Deaths Top 2,100
Christian Post ^ | 09/08/2014 | Stoyan Zaimov

Posted on 09/08/2014 11:27:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Methinks that the Obamadork should go there personally and help each and every patient.

He can further show his courage and manliness by not wearing any protective clothing.

It would be best for this country.

And the world.


21 posted on 09/08/2014 11:39:40 AM PDT by Da Coyote (00)
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the big drug companies have tested an ebola vaccine on monkeys. it doesn’t matter if it works, that’s why drug companies love vaccines, you just skew the data.
now, they open the door for mandatory vaccination because they say you’ll be a danger to the population.
and thathy he’s sending the troops, to bring it home in force.
and don’t doubt this, money is the motivation.


22 posted on 09/08/2014 11:39:51 AM PDT by willywill
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Pentagon your call ... Answer NO, please!


23 posted on 09/08/2014 11:40:05 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: SeekAndFind

West Africa is NOT a national security concern. Ban all flights into/out of West Africa. Isolate West Africa from the rest of the world and let the virus play itself out.


24 posted on 09/08/2014 11:40:21 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: F15Eagle

Gotta get them before they can get him?

This stinks on ice.


25 posted on 09/08/2014 11:40:24 AM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good God. This idiot has no priorities.


26 posted on 09/08/2014 11:40:47 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: SeekAndFind

Considering the threat that this disease poses, I wonder if out military is doing this only as a volunteer assignment or if they go even at the cost of their lives.


27 posted on 09/08/2014 11:41:01 AM PDT by navyblue (<u> Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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

“The Armed Forces Press Service reported late Friday that military health workers, including an entomologist from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, already are in the affected area providing support ranging from logistical assistance to “clinical management” — assisting in treating affected populations.

“DoD personnel bring a level of excellence second to none, working in response to host nations and WHO in the most-affected countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia,” Army Col. James Cummings, a physician and director of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center told AFPS.

Filoviruses like Ebola have been of interest to the Pentagon since the late 1970s, mainly because Ebola and its fellow viruses have high mortality rates — in the current outbreak, roughly 60 percent to 72 percent of those who have contracted the disease have died — and its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon.

Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have sought to develop a vaccine or treatment for the disease.”

“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.”


28 posted on 09/08/2014 11:41:59 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: SeekAndFind

Could this be the strategy to suspend the November elections?

Bring back Ebola and declare the elections suspended because people won’t be allowed to gather in public places. After all, it will be a health crisis!


29 posted on 09/08/2014 11:42:16 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: txrefugee

This was perfectly depicted by the photo of the young Marine holding an umbrella while this creep made another worthless speech in the Rose Gardening the rain.

This completely pissed my dad off being an old Marine.


30 posted on 09/08/2014 11:42:34 AM PDT by mothball
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To: txrefugee

I was talking about this yesterday with a friend who’s hubby is ex Navy. Said my son has interest in the military down the road but we both agreed to have reservations about him serving. Not with what Obama has done to the military. And I come from a proud military family. Makes me sick what he’s done.


31 posted on 09/08/2014 11:42:54 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screen TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Rather generous with the health and lives of our precious Military, is he not?

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32 posted on 09/08/2014 11:42:54 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: mothball

I bet it did. Sickening.


34 posted on 09/08/2014 11:43:56 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screen TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: SeekAndFind
It seems to me that it would be better to fund nigerians doing it than our troops:
35 posted on 09/08/2014 11:43:59 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: SeekAndFind
Wow, “World War Z” becomes a real mission

since the mission is to “contain” the disease quarantine area while “protecting” a small groups of US Military doctors nurses and health workers, I guess that means US troops will be shooting desperate possibly highly infectious bleeding zombie Africans who have nothing to lose, trying to escape quarantine or force their way into treatment centers or steal medical supplies

sure the Africans are gonna love the US Marines sweating in 120 degrees in Bio hazard gear, when they start using lethal force on packs of hyenas, who will waaaay outnumber the Marines and only need to rip open that protective gear

BlackHawk Down anyone?

what's wrong with this picture?

Hmmmm

The US surgeon general isn't leading the way?
no Obama family photo ops?
No CODEL senators and congress critters traveling as VIP observers?

36 posted on 09/08/2014 11:44:37 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: F15Eagle

My son periodically has thoughts of enlisting. I always beg him not to do it until we get a new President who will treat our military better.

Upon hearing this his thoughts became a resounding Hell no!

Good!

My luck he’ll be drafted. Heaven forbid.


37 posted on 09/08/2014 11:46:45 AM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good idea. I’m sure the volunteers are lining up


38 posted on 09/08/2014 11:47:07 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Toespi

With the whole situation on deserters, traitors, and chaos in the military, I pretty much figured out before this Ebola event that all this corruption was a fair warning not to be in when things got worse.


39 posted on 09/08/2014 11:47:25 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: SMARTY

That’s how the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 started. Bringing troops home.


40 posted on 09/08/2014 11:47:32 AM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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