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**Jolie Rouge** · 09-17-2014, 05:03 AM

Obama Putting 3,000 Boots on the Ground to Fight…a Disease in West Africa?

September 16, 2014 By Matthew Burke

As the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) takes over large swaths of the Middle East and beheads American journalists, our Commander-in-Chief is putting “boots on the ground” to fight, not ISIS (or, as the Obama regime calls the Islamic terrorist group, “ISIL”), but to somehow fight a deadly, highly infectious disease on foreign soil.

Perhaps Obama is getting our military confused with the Red Cross, World Concern, or another humanitarian agency.

As reported by FOX News, Obama is diverting up to 3,000 of our U.S. military to “combat” the Ebola virus in West Africa:

President Obama is expected to announce Tuesday that he’s sending up to 3,000 military personnel to combat the Ebola virus in West Africa.

Obama will announce the stepped-up offensive against the outbreak, which has killed more than 2,200 people in five West African countries, in an appearance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

So while Obama admitted that he has no real plan to combat the Islamic State, he does have a plan to use our military to “fight” a disease not affecting the United States.

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/09/16/obama...n-west-africa/

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***3lilpigs*** · 09-17-2014, 06:12 AM

So now 3000 of our military will become infected with this........

then come home and infect family, friends, neighbors...............

nice job, Obama

**Jolie Rouge** · 09-17-2014, 06:37 PM

See also http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-inf...-outbreak.html

When they come back to the US just think how many people will get Ebola from the 3,000 troops.
Won't be long before Ebola will take out a large majority of the US.

**Jolie Rouge** · 09-18-2014, 04:20 AM

Send Troops to Liberia to Fight Ebola? I Don’t Trust Him
 Jon McNaughton/ September 16, 2014/

Today President Obama announced that he would be sending as many as 3000 troops and commit a billion dollars to help Liberia stop the spread of Ebola.

I think we should pause right here. Do we want to send 3000 of our sons and daughters into such a place? Is there not a chance they may themselves become infected? We are told that they will not be in harms way, but I have to wonder if that is truthful.

Frankly, I don’t trust Obama. He doesn’t hesitate to send our troops to stop a plague in West Africa, yet he won’t lift a finger to stop the influx of illegal foreigners crossing our borders undeterred, with the proven likelihood of not only thousands of gang members from the drug cartels, but also Jihad fighters and people carrying disease and malicious intent across our borders daily.

He is willing to put our country at risk if it helps him politically, but when the UN calls for our help and he sees a chance to look good, he commits our troops and money in a way that gives me goose bumps.

Obama said. “We can’t dawdle on this one. We have to move with force and make sure that we are catching this as best we can given that this has broken out in ways we have not seen before.”

You’ve been dawdling, Mr. President. That should have been your speech when you were last in Texas! There is no question that Ebola is a horrible disease with the potential for devastation, but so are the threats to our border.

Obama has already mishandled the entire Middle East, Ukraine, the border, and do you remember the fiasco when he rolled out Obamacare? Are you sure you want to send our troops into an infected plague area of the world with the track record of this president?

Take these troops and 1 billion dollars and seal up the border. Send Liberia what they need in medical help and lets really do the smart thing for once.

http://blog.jonmcnaughton.com/send-t...ont-trust-him/

**Jolie Rouge** · 09-20-2014, 10:14 AM

Doctors: 'Irresponsible' to send troops to 'combat' Ebola
Call for quarantine, banning flights to U.S. from nations with virus outbreaks

Published: 2 days ago

A real-life horror story is playing out in Africa as Ebola spreads, and President Obama’s decision to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to combat the virus could very well put Americans at risk of contracting the deadly illness at home, some health experts say.

According to the World Health Organization, at least 4,985 people have contracted Ebola and at least 2,461 have died. Several doctors have fallen ill with Ebola, and two of them have died. New reports indicate a Doctors Without Borders staff member has contracted the virus in Liberia and will be evacuated to France for treatment.

“You can see that these doctors, who are highly trained people, got themselves infected,” said Dr. Lee Hieb, former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. “So sending troops into an area, if they’re dealing one-on-one with a patient, they’re not going to be able to protect themselves very well. It’s not easy to [prevent transmission], because you get tired and you get careless and you make some simple mistakes. All it takes is one virus particle.”

Dr. Hieb said quarantine measures should be taken to control the outbreak and prevent Ebola from coming to America. “You don’t get Ebola from Europe,” she told WND. “You get Ebola from Africa. And it’s a really simple formula: Don’t let people fly to America if they’ve been to areas where there’s an outbreak. When there’s an outbreak, stop air [traffic] flow.”

Hieb added, “If they’re going to use the troops to do population control, which is one of the ways you contain it, basically you just don’t let anybody out. You’d make a ring around where it is, and you’d quarantine the area.”

With quarantines in places where the outbreaks are occurring, even if a person infected with Ebola were to try to board a plane to the U.S., it would be far more difficult for them to make the journey, she explained. “Could somebody sneak through by going to Pakistan or some place?” she asked. “Yes, potentially. Ebola comes on so rapidly, you would know it. They wouldn’t make it. We should not allow flights from nations that are having Ebola outbreaks.”

Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, has warned that the U.S. must “treat Ebola as a wake-up call.”

“What African troops are doing is shooting people who cross borders or violate quarantine,” Orient told WND, reacting to news of the U.S. troop deployment. “Is that what we plan to support?”

She added, “Africans are already very suspicious of us. How will they react to an army setting up hospitals?”

Orient called the planned U.S. deployment a “dubious mission,” warning that the nightmarish scenario could bring Ebola to America.

“There is definitely a risk,” she said. “It seems irresponsible to send more people there when the ones already there are having trouble leaving. Probably anyone who has been exposed should be quarantined for 25 days since the last exposure.”

Orient echoed the concerns of Elaine Donelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, who told WND, “I’m just appalled. Judging from this, the United States seems to have a very confused vision of what ‘national security’ means.”

“But whether 3,000 American troops should be sent into that area of the world to deal with that problem, I do not see the justification,” Donelly said. “Surely there are alternatives in the international health-care networks.”

WND also reported when retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin charged that sending American troops to combat Ebola in Liberia is “an absolute misuse of the U.S. military.”

Donnelly emphasized it’s “not the purpose of our military.”

“I am very disappointed to see this announcement,” she said.

Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger appointed Donnelly to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services for a three-year term from 1984 through 1986. Then, in 1992, President George H. W. Bush appointed her to the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces.

Donnelly explained to WND her concern that the U.S. military is not designed to fight health wars.

“Our military people will show compassion in Liberia, as they always do, and they will do everything asked of them,” she said.

“Still, health wars are unhealthy for soldiers and all living things. Like oxymoronic ‘peace wars,’ such as the incursion into Bosnia, deployments such as this put our troops in causes having little impact on America’s national security,” she said.

American military families will be put at greater risk, Donnelly warned. “Here we have a ‘health war’ that could cost our troops’ health.”

http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/doctors-i...y78MU7OBA4h.99

**Jolie Rouge** · 09-21-2014, 10:00 AM

Boots on the ground for Ebola.
That mission starts as we speak.

Does this bother you? The Pentagon has asked Congress to shift ONE BILLION DOLLARS from the ALREADY strapped budget of the US Army to fight EBOLA in Liberia and yet no fast response to ISIS with boots on the ground.

Read the whole article here--let us know what you think.

http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/u.s....rticle/2553683

**Jolie Rouge** · 09-21-2014, 05:57 PM

More US troops in Ebola-hit Liberia: airport source
5 hours ago

Monrovia (AFP) - A second deployment of United States troops arrived in Liberia on Sunday as part of an eventual mission of 3,000 soldiers helping its beleaguered health services battle the Ebola outbreak.

The contingent will be focused on training local health workers and setting up facilities to help Liberia and its neighbours halt the spread of the epidemic, which has left more than 2,600 dead across west Africa. "Some American troops came soon this morning. They arrived with tactical jeeps," a source at Roberts international airport, near Monrovia, told AFP.

The source was unable to give the size of the unit, which arrived in one aircraft, but the US has already announced it was planning to send 45 troops over the weekend.

Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby told reporters on Friday a C-17 aircraft with equipment and seven service members landed in Liberia on Thursday, with two more cargo planes due to follow.

The small team will set up a headquarters for Major General Darryl Williams, who will oversee the US mission to train local health workers and establish additional medical facilities, he said.

Military engineers are due to build new Ebola treatment centres in affected areas, Washington said last week, while US officials will help recruit medical personnel to work at the units.

The Pentagon has said the troops will have no direct contact with patients.

President Barack Obama unveiled the troop deployment to west Africa last week, issuing an international call to action to prevent the virus from spreading "exponentially".

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has welcomed the US mission and said she hoped Washington's move would prompt other countries to provide more support to address the epidemic.

The UN Security Council has called the virus a threat to world peace.

The fever it unleashes can kill victims within days, causing severe muscle pain, weakness, vomiting and diarrhoea -- in many cases shutting down organs and causing unstoppable bleeding.

http://news.yahoo.com/more-us-troops...ntsharebuttons

**Jolie Rouge** · 09-22-2014, 05:17 PM

**Eddie** · 10-02-2014, 11:21 PM

The tiny island nation of Cuba has shamed the world with its international medical missions; the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa a case in point.

Something that has long gone unreported in the West, for both geopolitical and ideological reasons, is the remarkable role Cuban doctors and medical personnel are played in dealing with the aftermath of disasters and crises, both natural and manmade, throughout the developing world.

The most recent example is Cuba’s response to the spread of Ebola in West Africa. According to the World Health Organization, Cuba is in the process of sending hundreds of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel to West Africa to work on the frontline against the disease. Meanwhile, by way of comparison, the response of the United States to the Ebola crisis in West Africa has been the deployment of 3,000 troops.

Cuba’s exemplary gesture of solidarity, with a population of just over 11 million people and a GDP of around £70 billion, is made even more remarkable by the fact it currently has some 50,000 medical personnel serving on such medical missions around the world, specifically in 66 countries in the developing world.

Just one example of the invaluable role they play came in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake of 2010. When the earthquake struck, Cuba already had 350 medical personnel working on the island, part of a solidarity mission that was established in 1998. The doctors, nurses, and support staff immediately went into action, helping to deal with one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters in modern history.

Moreover, amid the fanfare surrounding the aid offered and transported by the US, UK, and other Western countries, Cuba dispatched hundreds more medical personnel to the stricken country. Not only that, instead of departing after just two or three months, when the news agenda had long since moved on, the Cubans remained and still do to this day.

Professor John Kirk of Dalhousie University in Canada, who has done research on Cuba's international medical teams, said at the time: “Cuba's contribution in Haiti is like the world's greatest secret. They are barely mentioned, even though they are doing much of the heavy lifting.”

You might think that such a towering record of international aid and solidarity would at least be acknowledged by Western governments. After all, aren’t they always lecturing the world on the need to help the poor; on the need to alleviate poverty and the abundant preventable diseases that flow from poverty?

In truth, the West lectures the world on global poverty, disease, and the plight of the developing world while exploiting the aforementioned in the name of profit. The role of institutions like the IMF and World Bank in being responsible for keeping the developing world in a state of underdevelopment is a shameful one, described by Nelson Mandela as a process in which “the rich and powerful enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker.”

The Cuban Revolution in 1959 was in direct response to the process of super-exploitation described by Mandela. Its efficacy in resisting the onslaught of global capitalism and its predatory impact on poor countries of the developing world is reflected in the fierce and continuing attempt by the United States to starve and embargo it out of existence. Here we see the threat that a good example poses to the most powerful nation on earth. For it is not anything bad that Cuba has done or is doing that has made Washington its mortal enemy, but rather the good it has done and is doing, with its international medical missions constituting irrefutable evidence in this regard.

To really understand what drives Cuba to place such importance on this aspect of its foreign policy, the answer is contained within the country’s constitution. In it Cuba declares that it bases its international relations on the principles of equality of rights, free determination of peoples, territorial integrity, independence of States, international cooperation for mutual and equitable benefit and interest.

The emphasis Cuba places on medicine has also allowed it to achieve remarkable health outcomes at home; achievements made even more remarkable when we factor in the obstacles it has faced since the revolution as a result of the US embargo, making it harder to obtain equipment and certain drugs. For example, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), when it comes to infant mortality, Cuba’s 4.8 deaths per 1,000 live births are comparable with the UK and lower than the US. This is despite Cuba spending a mere $400 per person per year on health, while the UK spends $3,000 and the US spends $7,500. The difference is of course in the way the money is spent and how it is distributed across the entire population. Healthcare in the US is a privilege of wealth rather than a human right. In other words, the poorer you are the lower your health outcomes will be in the land of the free.

Medical training in Cuba lasts six years, which is a year longer than in the UK, and every graduate is mandated to spend a minimum of three years working as a family doctor in the community, looking after between 150-200 families along with a nurse out of a local clinic. The country also takes pride in training thousands of doctors from overseas in its internationally renowned Elam medical school in Havana, where an emphasis is placed on inculcating a sense of obligation in those international students to serve the poor in their native countries when they return.

The difference between a nation whose first response to a natural or humanitarian disaster is to send doctors and nurses, and a nation whose first response is to send troops is the difference between civilization and barbarism. Cuba shames those nations who preach the former while practicing the latter.

http://rt.com/op-edge/192176-cuba-do...a-aid-mission/

**Jolie Rouge** · 10-04-2014, 02:22 PM

1,000 More U.S. troops being sent to battle Ebola in Liberia (new total 4,000)
So many lives Obama is willing to risk to 'protect' another country; yet we can't even protect our own.

There is going to be "NO CEILING" on the number of troops Obama will make available for Ebola, says Rear Adm. John Kirby.

More U.S. troops being sent to battle Ebola

Tom Vanden Brook and David Jackson, USA TODAY 7:05 p.m. EDT October 3, 2014

WASHINGTON — As Obama administration officials sought to reassure Americans about efforts to contain Ebola in the wake of the first U.S. case, the military announced Friday that an additional 1,000 troops could be sent to West Africa to help fight the virus.

And that number could go higher than that, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary.

"I'm not going to put a floor or ceiling on this," Kirby said.

President Obama initially ordered 3,000 troops to West Africa to help build hospitals, labs and treatment centers and provide logistics help. They are not going to treat Ebola victims.

"We are not going to be in the treatment business," Kirby said.

The new deployment includes soldiers from Army posts around the country and include engineers, logistics and civil affairs experts and military police officers.

Troops will be constantly monitored during their deployment and screened for the disease when they return, Kirby said.

The Pentagon is developing a protocol for troops suspected of being exposed to the virus, Kirby said. They will be monitored "constantly" for 21 days.

"It's not a quarantine necessarily," Kirby said.

The soldiers will deploy later this month and could stay through November, according to an Army statement.

There are currently 231 U.S. troops in West Africa, most of them in Liberia.

The deployment announcement came as a hazardous-materials crew in Dallas decontaminated the Texas apartment where an Ebola patient stayed.

The Ebola victim made his way from Africa to Dallas, prompting questions about whether the United States and allies will be able to contain the epidemic.

Obama, en route to a speech in Indiana, telephoned Gen. David M. Rodriguez, the commander of U.S. Africa Command, to "get an update on the American military's response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.

At the White House, officials called a news conference to reassure Americans that they are taking steps to stop the spread of the virus, including tighter screening at international airports and local hospitals.

"The United States is prepared to deal with this crisis, both at home and in the region," said Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counter-terrorism. "We know how to do this."

Monaco called the Dallas incident "an isolated case" and said "the American people should be confident" that there will not be an outbreak in the United States.

Ebola is not just a public health crisis, but "a national security priority," she said.

Officials said the government is providing guidance to state and local officials, hospital and health care workers, pilots, flight attendants, customs officials and border guards on how to spot potential signs of Ebola, investigate them, and treat them.

As for calls to prevent travel from West Africa, Earnest said, "There's no consideration of a travel ban at this point."

The officials stressed that people can only get Ebola through an exchange of body fluids.

The disease "is not easily transmitted," said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.

The strength of the U.S. health care system "would make it extraordinarily unlikely that we would have an outbreak" in this country, Fauci said.

Obama has scheduled a staff meeting for Monday to discuss the Ebola response.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...agon/16650617/

***3lilpigs*** · 10-04-2014, 03:33 PM

Monaco called the Dallas incident "an isolated case" and said "the American people should be confident" that there will not be an outbreak in the United States.

At least not until the 3000 members of the military return home with it.

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