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Obama's Next Executive Order: Sending The National Guard to Fight Ebola in Africa
Townhall.com ^ | October 16, 2014 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 10/16/2014 12:53:30 PM PDT by Kaslin

resident Obama will sign an executive order as soon as today deploying National Guard troops to Ebola stricken countries in West Africa according to a report from NBC News.

President Barack Obama is expected to issue an executive order Thursday paving the way for the deployment of National Guard forces to Liberia to help contain the Ebola outbreak there, sources told NBC News.

The sources said that eight engineers and logistical specialists from the Guard, both active-duty and reservists, would probably be included in the first deployment. They are expected to help build 17 Ebola treatment centers, with 100 beds apiece. The sources said that no decision had been made.

Fox News' Ed Henry confirmed this afternoon that a draft of the order is circulating through the White House and Pentagon.

A month ago President Obama announced the deployment of thousands of U.S. soldiers to Ebola stricken regions in Africa. The original number of soldiers deployed for the task was 3,000 but the Pentagon has upped that number to 4,000 this week. 

At this point it is unclear what National Guard troops will be tasked with doing or how they will be protected from contracting the disease once they arrive. Earlier this month we learned U.S. military soldiers and medical personnel will be handling Ebola infected blood samples.

The U.S. military mission to combat Ebola in West Africa is facing questions about the serious health risks American troops will encounter in heading to the epicenter of the deadly outbreak.

According to officials, a small group of trained military medical technicians on the ground will not be required to make direct contact with patients infected with the Ebola virus. However, they will have to handle infected blood samples, which Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday could be just as dangerous, if not more.

More information on this news will be available this afternoon.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; barack0bama; ebola; liberia; nationalguard; obama
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To: Kaslin

He has a phone, he has a pen and they will have Ebola.


21 posted on 10/16/2014 1:28:35 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Kaslin

What if he activates them and then decides to keep them here to run “quarantine camps”?

An interim step to implementing martial law.


22 posted on 10/16/2014 1:36:50 PM PDT by zipper (In Their Heart Of Hearts, Every Democrat Is A Communist.)
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To: Kaslin
Do you expect a pubbie congress to vote repeal of the most despised law in our history . . . obamacare?
23 posted on 10/16/2014 1:43:40 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: donna

As if the VA could handle Ebola any better than it did vets with head injuries, brain damage and even just cancer.


24 posted on 10/16/2014 1:44:53 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Kaslin
Ain't fundamental transformation grand?


25 posted on 10/16/2014 1:46:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Kaslin

The Post-American world. . Never let a crisis go to waste. .


26 posted on 10/16/2014 1:49:09 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Kaslin

27 posted on 10/16/2014 1:50:58 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Kaslin

Only Nat’l Guard troops from red states like Texas will be sent.....


28 posted on 10/16/2014 1:52:15 PM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: Kaslin

Any bets the National Guard units are sent from reliably red states?


29 posted on 10/16/2014 1:57:02 PM PDT by DNME (Quietly carry concealed, at all times and places.)
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To: DNME

I’d bet on the Iowa NG, where the GOP US Senate candidate is a NG unit commander.


30 posted on 10/16/2014 1:59:31 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Kaslin
... and not stopping people from the ebola countries from flying into the US ??

Give me a fricking break !!

31 posted on 10/16/2014 2:05:07 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: TMA62
Which States?

Red States, silly.

32 posted on 10/16/2014 2:07:08 PM PDT by Defiant (4 main US grps: conservatives, useless idiots (aka RINOs), marxists and useful idiots (aka liberals))
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To: Kaslin; All

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/16/executive-order-ordering-selected-reserve-and-certain-individual-ready-r


33 posted on 10/16/2014 2:21:51 PM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: Ancesthntr

So glad I retired. I would refuse and resign.

Fubo.


34 posted on 10/16/2014 2:34:50 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: Jacquerie; Kaslin
<>Do you expect a pubbie congress to vote repeal of the most despised law in our history . . . obamacare?<>

I don't either.

Since the GOP can't find the courage to campaign on something so easy as sticking obolacare up the arse of every rat, it is illogical to think they will stand up to obola when they take the senate.

35 posted on 10/16/2014 2:46:04 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: dynachrome

Yep! Just in time for them to miss voting on Nov. 4th.


36 posted on 10/16/2014 3:08:17 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: Kaslin

Exactly how many Americans is he willing to put over there as “Ebola bait” to make sure we suffer an “equal dose” of it here in this Country?


37 posted on 10/16/2014 3:47:23 PM PDT by LTC.Ret (I was Constitutional Conservative when it wasn't Cool)
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To: Kaslin

fork that.


38 posted on 10/16/2014 6:07:01 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kaslin

why haven’t the black panthers voluteered to go and help? nation of islam?


39 posted on 10/16/2014 6:08:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kaslin

National Guard? For a non-combat mission? Has this happened before?

I mean, I’ve seen the military sent to Hati, for example, but did the National Guard go, too?


40 posted on 10/16/2014 6:41:25 PM PDT by NYRepublican72 (Democrats -- it's always someone else's fault.)
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