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Obama Plans Major Ebola Offensive
http://online.wsj.com/articles/obama-plans-major-ebola-offensive-1410738096 ^ | September 15, 2014 | CAROL E. LEE and BETSY MCKAY

Posted on 09/15/2014 7:16:14 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama plans to dramatically boost the U.S. effort to mitigate the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, including greater involvement of the U.S. military, people familiar with the proposal said. Mr. Obama is expected to detail the plan during a visit Tuesday to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, these people said. Among the possible moves: sending additional portable hospitals, doctors and health-care experts, providing medical supplies and conducting training for health workers in Liberia and other countries. Mr. Obama also is expected to urge Congress to approve the request he made last week for an additional $88 million to fund his proposal.

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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Thank You!


41 posted on 09/15/2014 9:01:47 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“health workers and epidemiologists have been physically attacked or run out of villages by angry or frightened locals. Some locals argue that Ebola is a bioweapon seeded by the West.”

That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the situation there regarding this epidemic.


42 posted on 09/15/2014 9:02:57 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: BunnySlippers

The military is trained to kill people and break things.
Not ebola duty.


43 posted on 09/15/2014 9:05:49 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

44 posted on 09/15/2014 9:08:23 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: MeshugeMikey
Mr. Obama also is expected to urge Congress to approve the request he made last week for an additional $88 million to fund his proposal.

....and every penny will be used to transport more illegal immigrants into America.

45 posted on 09/15/2014 9:11:24 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: null and void
"We're going to need a bigger cart"


46 posted on 09/15/2014 9:13:10 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: ansel12

“Why post articles that we can’t read, because we don’t own a subscription?”

Almost all paywalled articles have a deliberate hole when accessed via a google search; if they didn’t do that, then no one would ever see the articles.

Thus, if you google search the headline, the search will find the article and you can click on the article link in the google search to read the full article:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Obama+Plans+Major+Ebola+Offensive&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=Palemoon:en-US&client=palemoon


47 posted on 09/15/2014 9:13:16 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

What about the vaccine resistant pertussis outbreaks in the United States? How is Obama dealing with that?


48 posted on 09/15/2014 9:15:03 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: MeshugeMikey

Obama doesn’t want to be the world’s policeman, but he’s OK with being the world’s doctor. Sigh . . .


49 posted on 09/15/2014 9:16:44 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: MeshugeMikey

An offensive AGAINST the U.S.


50 posted on 09/15/2014 9:25:19 AM PDT by Old Yeller (D.A.M.N. - Deport All Muslims Now! Starting in the White House.)
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To: Smokin' Joe; Thud

I have word via someone who has a Marine son that the Mayport amphibious ready group is being deployed to the West Coast of Africa.

The amphibious carrier involved has V-22 tilt-rotors so there is a good logistical reason for it to go there, if there is a major US military-medical deployment to Liberia.


51 posted on 09/15/2014 9:30:06 AM PDT by Dark Wing
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To: MeshugeMikey
This precisely a good reason why the President of the US should be a veteran. Obama has no experience with the military, he, like the Clintons, abhors the military. Even his advisers are inadequate with experience. Our country is being affirmative actioned into obscurity.
52 posted on 09/15/2014 9:32:20 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Old Yeller

Indeed.

expose as many Americans as Possible as soon as possible...


53 posted on 09/15/2014 9:59:53 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: petitfour

He hasnt read about them on the mother jones website yet.....


54 posted on 09/15/2014 10:01:11 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: aimhigh

doctor? sorta///

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3204160/posts?page=21#21


55 posted on 09/15/2014 10:03:52 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: ansel12

Try this link: http://online.wsj.com/articles/obama-plans-major-ebola-offensive-1410738096


56 posted on 09/15/2014 10:08:32 AM PDT by RedWhiteBlue (Mama tried)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Is he going to infect millions with it in order to limit greenhouse gasses ?


57 posted on 09/15/2014 11:03:43 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Ouderkirk

that could well be his “plan”.


58 posted on 09/15/2014 11:12:21 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Your numbers and analysis are quite good mathematically. By the end of next May, this could be startling.


59 posted on 09/15/2014 12:16:38 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Pollster1

Going by the WHO numbers - 800,000 open cases on 1 May, or thereabouts.

Or, going by WHO’s estimate - what they believe the fudge factor is necessary to reflect REAL numbers (4X) - on May 1, 2015, there will be 3.2M open cases of Ebola, worldwide.

Conservatively, by Dec 1, 2015, you are looking at 25.6M open cases of Ebola. That’s still only 0.3% of the 7B people on Earth.

However, by end of the school year, that’s 819.2M people with Ebola in 2016. Congratulations Graduates!


60 posted on 09/15/2014 1:58:51 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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