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Defense Department Admits US Troops In Liberia Will "Come In Contact" With Ebola-Infected Individuals

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With boots-on-the-ground heading to Liberia to help 'manage' the anarchic dystopia that a frightened nation has become, General David Rodriguez (Commander, US Africa Command) held a briefing today to explain US troops' role:

  • QUESTION: Will they be in contact with individuals or just specimens?
  •  RODRIGUEZ: They come in contact with the individuals.

Of course this was followed by a stream of qualifiers that all protection possible will be taken (just like the nurses in Madrid?)

Via Bloomberg Transcript,

KIRBY: Afternoon, everybody. I'm proud to welcome into the briefing room General David Rodriguez, commander of Africa Command. He's here to give you an update on U.S. contributions to the effort against Ebola -- U.S. military contributions to the effort against Ebola in West Africa. And with that, sir, I'll turn it over to you.

 

QUESTION: Just a clarification on that, please. Will they be in contact with individuals or just specimens?

 

GENERAL DAVID M. RODRIGUEZ (USA), COMMANDER, U.S. AFRICA COMMAND: They come in contact with the individuals and they do that. And they're -- like I said, it's a -- it's a very, very high standard that these people have operated in all their lives, and this is their primary skill. This is not a -- you know, just medical guys trained to do this. This is what they do for a living.

 

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Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:27 | 5299501 Joebloinvestor
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US armed petri dishes.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:30 | 5299529 fightthepower
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You would think these soldiers would shoot their officers rather than catch ebola. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:33 | 5299549 dontgoforit
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Just the beginning.  Agenda 21 actually.

 

http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/do-math.html

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:35 | 5299572 pods
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Sorry, after that last GD police state article I am a bit out of empathy for anyone willing to sign up and do the work of the US government.

Fuck them. Let them bleed out of their asses.

Unless of course they were drafted against their will.

Let the downvotes commence from the yellow ribbon crowd.

pods

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:40 | 5299611 McMolotov
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You probably don't even wear a Chinese-made American flag lapel pin, you terrrrist!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:44 | 5299622 Publicus
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I move quietly, mostly unnoticed through the crowd. I watch my victims entertain themselves with war, it amuses me to see them playing with resources, tanks, jets, puppets, gold, pawns, crackers, blood, assets and guns. I am not evil as the concept of sin eludes me and I don't discriminate against any particular individual. I will not judge on race, religion, status, morality, nationality, intellect or age. I am not on a mission and I don't know my purpose, my only instinct is to multiply and I am the same with everybody. I don't know if I was modified, created or manufactured. I do, however, know my name. Some, they call me Ebola, I prefer my title, Destroyer of Worlds.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:52 | 5299673 palmdetroit
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lol all life on earth was created by virii... more like creator of worlds!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:58 | 5299720 ghengis86
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Wife's cousin just found out he's going. 22 with a son and pregnant wife. They're terrified.

I'm junking that cimment up there by Pods or whomever, simply because this poor kid has been lied to his whole life by family, school and society about the State and its true nature. Sure, he could have figured it out by himself eventually or with some luck, but the deck was stacked and the game titled against him from day 1.

I think he gets it now though. Too bad it took the prospect if bleeding out his ass and dying at 22 for the NWO's depopulation plan to get it.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:18 | 5299825 Oldwood
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So much for the all volunteer military. They will have a draft before long.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:47 | 5299974 strannick
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Dear Ebola, decimater of worlds.

You do know the reality of sin because you were created with intent to kill.

You do discriminate because you were set to proliferate amongst Africans.

Your creators ultimately will face their Creator, then spend their eternity in the unrelenting company of their father of lies.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:20 | 5300125 TruthInSunshine
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The hits -

- they just keep coming.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:45 | 5300248 erkme73
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The 1918 Spanish flu had the highest mortality rate seen up until that point - normally 0.1%, but this time it was as high as 2.5%.  It killed between 20 and 40 million people.  Nearly 1 million in the US died.  While it hit Europe hard, it came to the US via returning WWI soldiers.    Imagine what a 50+ mortality rate will do when these 3k soldiers return.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:08 | 5300384 Mister Ponzi
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Just send in Blackwater.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 22:34 | 5301760 trulz4lulz
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They'll be dressed to the Nines, I tell you, dressed to the fucking Nines.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:48 | 5301037 Bananamerican
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the idea of sending u.s. soldiers over there to....do what exactly? Shoot ebola? Stack bodies? Deter looters?...

It's ludicrous...

It DOES seem like someone wants "vectors on the ground" with a view to their eventual return...

at the very least it's reminiscent of: "let's march some troops into that mushroom cloud and...see what happens"

 

and Pods: Go re-read "The Man He Killed"....How "educated" on the issues were you at 21?

You don't come off like some sage Darwinian cynic with your "Fuck them. Let them bleed out of their asses." ...you just come off like a common household dick ("yellow ribbon crowd" my ass...)...shame on you

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 21:24 | 5301517 pods
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I don't deny that I am an asshole.

But I also do not bend to the yellow ribbon crowd.

Take the Army oath for example (paraphrase): To defend and uphold the Constitution, etc.

Exactly where in the Constitution is the provision for a standing army?

There isn't one. Kind of a conundrum when you take an oath to defend something that you are in violation of isn't it?

pods

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 22:39 | 5301781 trulz4lulz
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Hell, now that we have a standing Army, lets skip that point. Where is the provision stating its our obligation to go into West Africa and shoot Ebola Town? Not only that, if it is our obligation, then, that only suggests further, that this is the property of .gov and has become an issue of International Trade. Besides, if this thing sticks around as long as some say it does, how can fiat money not be biologically contaminated?

Hmmmmm curiouser and curiouser indeed.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:18 | 5299829 NoDebt
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"That's it man.  Game over.  GAME OVER!"

Somewhere in those 3000 troops (or is it 4000 now?) there is somebody saying that classic line.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 19:37 | 5301202 StormShadow
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"They mostly come at night. Mostly"

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:24 | 5299867 pods
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So he was okay with his military service before this?

Junk, me, I don't give a fuck. At least here we can speak our mind.  Speak yours.

If he "gets it" now I am sure he is looking into ways for him to exit the military?

Or is he merely dissatisfied with THIS mission, as opposed to the thousand other missions that the military does in defense of this government?

pods

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:35 | 5300538 ghengis86
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Of course he was okay with it before this deployment (his first). He faced the prospects of living in a rust belt, shit hole, meth addicted town where all the middle class jobs got sent over to China. He was a C student at best in a shitty, "everybody is a winner" public school. Get paid to be GI Joe, plus free college tuition and in a position that's almost assuredly not going to see "real" combat like Iraq, Afghan, etc. funny how Ebola contain is non-combat-ish, huh?

I like your comments and even agree with your above sentiments, but you can't discount the level of dumbing-down the gov has done to society. Hence the junk; not cause you 'went there' and blamed the sucker. You just didn't go fat enough and lay it at the feet of the other culpable parties in our societal decline.

Maybe he'd be happy to carry water for the gov if it was an office/desk job. I don't know, haven't talked to him since the news.

Thanks for the respectable dialogue; cheers!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:15 | 5300954 Freddie
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In defense of the BANKSTERS.   Go read David Cameron's wiki.   He and his wife are tribe.  His German dual citizen tribe klan on the one side helped finance wars (mass murder of innocents) for the Red Shield klan.

War is about money and stealing resources and markets.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:15 | 5300955 Freddie
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In defense of the BANKSTERS.   Go read David Cameron's wiki.   He and his wife are tribe.  His German dual citizen tribe klan on the one side helped finance wars (mass murder of innocents) for the Red Shield klan.

War is about money and stealing resources and markets.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:38 | 5299933 RmcAZ
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+1, I was also going to post this. The military gets them before most have a chance to figure out what they are really getting into.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:06 | 5300074 Silky Johnson
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Mufugga was ok with travelling the world bombing brown people. Let that bitch taste the EBOLAAAA!!!! You gonna drone that shit, mufugga!??

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:41 | 5300592 MsCreant
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I am so sorry this young man is being abused this way. 

I know a number of young men AND women who joined the service rather than put their family on foodstamps and section 13 housing. One wanted the insurance for her family members. They are also hoping to pay for education later and get some on the job training. When the rich are down on their luck, they have support networks they can go to. The honest poor, not so much. 

It is not black and white, at all. This is sold as "honorable" through and through. 

And at it's core, when the corporations are not running government, to "protect" is a VERY HONORABLE IMPULSE. Maybe the single most highest calling there is. 

Pods has this wrong. What is funny is I think if there was a real threat, one that was not trumped up politicaian corporation bullshit, he would be at the front of the line signing up. Some of these kids think this too when they sign up.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:10 | 5300741 joeyman9
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I wonder what would happen if he said he wasn't going. bet they would quietly discharge him with an admin sep. Even if they sent him to jail, it beats dying in a stupid effort to bring back infected soldiers who will spread the disease amongst the population

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:05 | 5299755 kaiserhoff
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Kissin and huggin girls ain't nothin compared to a shiny  medal to wear on your chest.

                Last words of the drummer boy. 

                The Lost Brigade - Rudyard Kipling

 

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:42 | 5299616 eclectic syncretist
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Dyin' ain't much of a livin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXUljp6Rhns

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:46 | 5299646 Dr Strangemember
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I agree... this isn't the America for which my grandfather fought in WW2.   As a younger American, I'd have no desire to be taking orders from such chaotic anti-American leadership (yeah, leadership, LOL, I know).  

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:39 | 5299946 Dick Gazinia
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We have always been at war with EuroBola

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:16 | 5300110 SAT 800
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No, no; that dis-information campaign starts next week.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:58 | 5299705 Dr. Engali
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I keep holding out hope that the rank and file will finally get it, but we all know how that hope thing works out.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:33 | 5299910 Oldwood
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To have an effective military force you must have unquestioning obedience. Its just a fact that old ornery knot heads wanting to impose their opinion of things cannot make an effective fighting force. It requires young, impressionable minds, and someone who volunteers already has the fist major hurdle covered, they actually want to be there. Only a fool would believe we can survive in this world without a military, but the only thing worse is a large ineffective one that sucks the life from our budgets, and wastes the lives of it participants. This is what we have ended up with, the progressive vision of military, building schools and roads and mopping up ebola puke. Fighting with one hand tied behind our back or murdering hundreds of innocents from some computer game console in Colorado. Our military has been turned into another social experiment. You may hate the kick butt militarists who are just begging for a fight, but we have instead is a capitulating group of higher education generals hypothesizing how they can make kinder, gentler wars. Unending Keynesian wars. False economies and false wars with unintended collateral damage everywhere we look. No war, no military is more frightening to me than what we face.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:20 | 5300135 Government need...
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Dont forget 'RESCUING' the environment.  That's becoming part of the US Military's mission.  Same for NASA.  Blow the hell outta global warming!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:21 | 5300136 Government need...
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Dont forget 'RESCUING' the environment.  That's becoming part of the US Military's mission.  Same for NASA.  Blow the hell outta global warming!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:28 | 5299884 Kirk2NCC1701
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They're all working for the Umbrella Corporation.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:54 | 5300013 sleigher
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The evil that is resident in the government seats.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:42 | 5300613 IronForge
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I understand Deploying to Africa is quite dangerous...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtS7Hzw9y8g (Resident Evil 5 Game Buster - "Dangers of Africa")

Seriously, I hope they've issued enough NBC Gear for them.  Makes one wonder if ISIL and Somali sympathizers may try to get lucky against our Troops.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:28 | 5299891 Jack Burton
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Totally agree Pods! Fuck 'em. We are forced to pay for their actions via taxes, but that is as far as it goes. I should pay them for doing what I don't want done, and then kiss their asses. Nobody ever kissed ours 30 years ago!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:40 | 5300178 buttmint
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pods and ZHers...getting scary weird globally. I got awakened by a panickled call from a buddy shipping out to West Africa. He is to advise the non-temporary base being built outside of Monrovia. Think Baghdad, but permanente. All under the guise of the temporary hospitals being assembled.

Cool cover story when you think about it. Ruse of humanitarianism when really, a forward operating base is being constructed simultaneously. We all know Google Maps will have this info pixellated to look like confetti.

His salary is over $950k per annum and I asked to be placed into his will, or at least executor. After the laughter subsided, I asked about taxes. No problem...paid, then all returned to offshore account. Ghhesuz, I told him "..this is how the 9/11 squealers got bought off." He was not amused. He began chatting about "honor and commitment." Whatever.

Is ebola real? Yes.  Under this ruse of humanitarianism is ForWard Base Ebola now arising up from the grasses outside of Monrovia. Ebola and hysteria a perfect cover story to establish a serious military base to counteract the Chinese.

The final grab for resources. Much easier to procure if the natives are decimated and few in number. We yapped about contagion and here our chat grew very weird: all to be innoculated. BIG RED FLAGS. I said "what the hell does that mean?" He grew silent.

Carry on...nothing to see here.....

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:57 | 5300326 TheMeatTrapper
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Saw a great yellow ribbon the other day.  "I support whatever is trendy at the moment". :)

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:30 | 5299893 SelfGov
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Ever read Agenda 21?

I thought not.

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:44 | 5299979 Oldwood
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Out of chaos comes order, not apparent at first but by the time we can accurately visualize and identify it, it will be too late.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:33 | 5300187 taketheredpill
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I went to the link.  Big mistake.

 

Own LAKE and APT well below current levels but....even if I win I lose.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:35 | 5300198 taketheredpill
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I went to the link.  Big mistake.

 

http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/do-math.html

 

 

Own LAKE and APT well below current levels but....even if I win I lose.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 22:52 | 5301812 trulz4lulz
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It looks like a real shitpocalypse, eh, Randy?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:34 | 5299559 Stackers
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Time to rewatch "Outbreak" with Dustin Hoffman ?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:57 | 5299702 Loose Caboose
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Well, I could ask Dustin to come over and watch it with me but I'm not in his circle.   

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:41 | 5299956 Bunghole
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I'd rather bleed out my asshole than watch that piece of shit movie again.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:44 | 5299981 Oldwood
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And that says a lot, coming from a bunghole.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:33 | 5299560 fonzannoon
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Agreed completely its insane that these troops would follow these orders and possibly end up with it. But at least after they get it and are discharged they will get top notch vet treatment

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:38 | 5299599 IridiumRebel
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This is what they do for a living? You mean "This is what they do for DYING." Walter Reed will be ground zero.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:06 | 5299773 CaptainObvious
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Does anybody but me think that the reason the US sent troops to the hot zone is to shoot those who will try to get past the barricades the soldiers will erect?  I don't think these guys are going to give medical aid.  I think they will be used to enforce a quarantine since the effected nations are doing such a piss poor job.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:30 | 5299898 Kobe Beef
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Is that a bad thing?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:54 | 5300009 Oldwood
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Fat chance. The first black man shot dead by an American soldier will be splashed on every front page in the world. Those soldiers will be told to suck bleeding cock if necessary. They are dying every day in Afghanistan, with nary a mention on the news. When Bush was pres, they listed their names at the end of every news cast. When progressives run things their lives means shit. Like it or not most of our military at least believes they are protecting us, even if misguided, while progressives can burn the world to the ground and as long as they had good intentions, all is forgiven.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:18 | 5300447 Kobe Beef
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Obama Admin Standard Operating Procedure Phase 1: feign sincerity. So the troops get sent in for "humanitarian" optics.

OA SOP Phase 2: Do nothing. Play golf. Let crisis fester. So the troops get ebola for no reason while conducting no proactive measures to fight the disease.

OA SOP Phase 3: Hold Press Conference. Lie. Blame somebody else for entirely preventable/predictable and doubly shittier outcome. So the troops become new vectors for the disease and bring it back home in greater numbers.

 

C'mon people, you've had six years of this Clown Show and can't see the outcomes in advance? An actual quarantine, cordon sanitaire, would be a good thing. That's why it won't happen. Oldwood has it right.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:40 | 5299605 the not so migh...
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they will be handing medals out by the bucket.  EBOLA SERVICE CRIOSSS

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:44 | 5299626 McMolotov
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Kinda makes you think all the blather about how troops would never just "follow orders" and turn against American citizens might be nothing more than wishful thinking.

If and when the time comes, there won't be a shortage of soldiers who'll do exactly as they're told by their superiors.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:59 | 5300039 sleigher
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I tend to agree, but shooting ebola zombies and shooting Mrs. Jones is still pretty different.  Probably just wishful thinking.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:39 | 5299602 Gringo Viejo
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I'll do my time in the brig, thanks.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:14 | 5300098 SAT 800
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Really. This is beyond crazy. Why, oh why, can't we just for once, stay home and mind our own business ? hmm.? Why ?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:24 | 5300802 JLee2027
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Just wait till a couple troops catch ebola and then they will start refusing orders.

These clowns are destroying themselves...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:09 | 5299785 rubiconsolutions
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"It's not just a job, it's an adventure"

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:29 | 5299890 Things that go bump
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Best comment so far. +1000

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:31 | 5300829 Freddie
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Anyone who let's their kid join needs burial insurance.   The military does nothing to uphold The Constitution which is a farce anymore anyway.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:27 | 5299503 Jim in MN
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The USSA:  We don't ban flights, we FAN BLIGHTS

(re-using a line I thought of rather late in an earlier Ebola Daze thread)

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:28 | 5299505 Winston Churchill
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Going to need a new medal.

The Bleeding Anus, for wounds in the fight against ebola.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:37 | 5299578 deeply indebted
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I hate you for making me laugh about something so deadly serious! :-(

+1

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:44 | 5299636 eclectic syncretist
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The General is right, they do train you to face death with equanimity.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:07 | 5299688 813kml
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The Purplish Shart

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:29 | 5299895 Dr. Engali
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Lol...... Fucking awesome.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 22:55 | 5301815 trulz4lulz
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lulz +forever and 1 unicorn.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:30 | 5299897 Kirk2NCC1701
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Handed out by Bleeding Hearts.

Probably televised on The View, by a tearful Whoopi Goldberg.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:28 | 5299508 saints51
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A little recon before this area becomes scorched earth. That's what military does for a living. They make things go boom in one form or another.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:28 | 5299509 CuttingEdge
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Try droning this fucker, Mr Obomba.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:34 | 5299907 Kirk2NCC1701
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That's Commander-In-Thief to you.
Or President Obola to us.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:28 | 5299512 jubber
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think they would be more useful in Kobane as ISIS slaughter more kurds!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:29 | 5299514 ebworthen
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Fucking un-fucking believable.  World Police/World Nurses?

I bet Russia isn't wasting their taxpayers money nor endangering their troops like this.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:40 | 5299590 Dr. Engali
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Nope, we send our troops to die as nurses and the Russians are teaching their kids how to do this:

 

AK-74: Fast Assembly & Disassembly In Russian School

 

http://youtu.be/LrxjYfl05ek

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:18 | 5300120 Government need...
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That looks like Russian 'common core' education.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 22:57 | 5301824 trulz4lulz
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Yeah, but how many of those kids get to take uncle Dave from Liberia into school for show and tell?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:30 | 5299515 atomicwasted
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The United States Government - when every problem looks like a nail, just use the hammer every time!  The USG is out of ideas that don't involve the military.  Maybe O will just order the troops to shoot the fuck out of every virus in the vicinity.  That would work!

"Is this going to be a stand up fight or another bug hunt?"

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:33 | 5299554 ebworthen
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Yup.  And soldiers never engage with prostitutes nor dip their wicks in the local female population.

And they never make mistakes, ever.  Absolutely nothing to worry about, or think about for that matter.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:32 | 5299517 Dr. Engali
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File this one in the "no fucking shit" catagory. I have one word for you military men and women who keep getting fucked by these people: Revolt.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:36 | 5299575 fonzannoon
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When one of them gets it we will have to make the vomit barf out the ass the new ice bucket challenge

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:02 | 5299718 Cangaroo.TNT
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Wow.

In the 40's GI Joe went to fight the Axis in Europe and was consoled with French prostitutes.

In the 50's and 60's GI Joe went to fight the Commies in Asia and was consoled with Asian prostitutes.

In the 90's and 00's GI Joe went to fight terrorists in the desert and was consoled with a Vaseline filled latex glove wrapped in a towel.

Today, GI Joe is going to Africa to fight Ebola to be consoled by emaciated, AIDS infected, dirty prostitutes. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:11 | 5299794 kumquatsunite
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Great Nicholas Cage movie Lord of War; he is in Liberia selling illegal guns and is "offered" two young women. In his thoughts, he turns them down because "1 in every 4 has Aids."

The numbers also say that among children Aids is 1 in every 8 and that is after an approximately 20% death rate for children under five.

So...the soldiers have to worry about: ebola, Aids, malaria and drug-resistant tuberculosis. Makes fighting bullets in Iraq seem like a Sunday picnic doesn't it?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:40 | 5299943 Kirk2NCC1701
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IOW... They're revolting if they're not revolting.

Too subtle?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:30 | 5299519 Stifmeister
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This guy can't even put a sentence together.... it's a it's aaa you know..

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:30 | 5299524 Spungo
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Luckily everyone in the armed forces has 8 years of medical training as well as hands-on experience when it comes to dealing with sick people.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:38 | 5299580 SmallerGovNow2
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Um, no...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:30 | 5299525 10mm
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Id rather get shot at between the 2.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:31 | 5299527 MathWins
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Why are health care workers contracting Ebola in spite of all their precautions?  Are they doing something wrong, or is there a more insideous reason?  Until that is answered, we should not be putting our military in harms way.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:55 | 5299691 corporatewhore
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You could be sarcastic and say they just didn't wash their hands with soap.

 

Seriously, though, this version of the disease does seem different.  We should--unfortunately--know much more from first hand experience within the next month.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:34 | 5299555 Infinite QE
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US taxpayer money built all of Israel so lets send them there!

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:33 | 5299557 buzzsaw99
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3000 troops, 3000 body bags

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:35 | 5299571 Dr. Engali
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3,000 troops and 30,000 body bags. These people will come home some time.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:43 | 5299624 IridiumRebel
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Yeah, no need for quarantine when arriving home. Just let em get to banging the wife with Ebola sperm betwixt shoppng sprees at WalMart.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:45 | 5299635 buzzsaw99
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dying ain't much of a living boy. [/josey wales]

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:35 | 5299573 Ace Ventura
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"This is not a -- you know, just medical guys trained to do this. This is what they do for a living."

 

Sort of like the 300+ health-care professionals who are no longer with us? Or are these all camouflaged M.D.s who are extra special super awesome?

Seriously, can anyone doubt this shit is purposely being handled the way it has been? This is not mere incompetence or sheer stupidity. Rather, it is demented evil twisted design.


Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:49 | 5299662 Frank N. Beans
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General, exactly WHAT do these 3000 guys do for a living that would have you send them to be with Ebola victims?  Do they DIE for a living?  Is that what they do? 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:51 | 5299671 Quinvarius
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Nobody does this for a living.  There is not one serious expert among whomever they send that will tell you this is smart.  Anyone with any sense knows this crisis needs to be quarantined.  Too late for than now though.  Obutdart blew that like his ISIS response.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:43 | 5299965 Kirk2NCC1701
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The 3000 troops are there to make sure that the petroleum keeps flowing.

Can't risk the Ruskies or Chinks taking market share.
/sarc

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:38 | 5299577 kowalli
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Are americans insane? Why are your military troops wants to go there?

It's like your lieutenant tell you - you are going to die for nothing in Africa

and you -Yes sir

wtf really?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:48 | 5299660 Quinvarius
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Obama is insane, yes.  He thinks white man magic can solve anything and that he controls it now.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 19:28 | 5301176 Freddie
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Anyone see Putin doing anything like this?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:39 | 5299591 atthelake
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At some point, the military should catch on to the fact that they are expendable.

At some point, the rest of us should catch on that we are, all, expendable.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:53 | 5299678 Jethro
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I never once doubted that I was expendable when I was an Infantryman.  In fact, I considered myself already dead and made peace with that.  Many others did the same.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:39 | 5299598 Billy Shears
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Question: Why would anyone still voluntarily serve in any capacity in the U.S. military?

Answer: Feel free to provide your own...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:57 | 5300023 Urban Redneck
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Tradition. The same reason we stack barbarous relics.

Also, the shit one endures in the military prepares you for the shit you encounter and have to endure in civilian life as an adult afterwards.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:02 | 5300058 Billy Shears
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Agreed, but some traditions are better often served more in the breech than the observance...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:39 | 5299603 OpTwoMistic
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Are they there for oil or gold?  Or just to bring more disease back.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:44 | 5299634 1stepcloser
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Yes!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:48 | 5299655 insanelysane
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Africa is the new southeast Asia.  Every 1st world country needs to partner up with a 3rd world country and then fight it out.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:44 | 5299629 joego1
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Looks like Oblamo found another way to control the military. Shut up or it's Ebola duty for you!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:44 | 5299631 Bennie Noakes
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What does he expect the troops to do? Hunt the Ebola virus down and capture it?

Obama doesn't like the military and I think this is just his way of downsizing it.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:22 | 5299856 viahj
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US Biowarfare research?  mutated virus needed to update patent? 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 19:43 | 5301215 Freddie
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Just like Alien Resurrection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1myB44Tjiw

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:46 | 5299643 azengrcat
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Did they mention the part where they mow down ebola suiciders?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:48 | 5299651 Quinvarius
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1 US troop gets Ebola and the Democratic party is over for a generation. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:59 | 5300035 Urban Redneck
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Jeb Bush (or any other member of the Bush Klan) could undo that without even being elected to office...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:23 | 5300142 Wahooo
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Military ballots aren't counted

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:27 | 5300503 New_Meat
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tasty fish, not really the point at all.  But the local ballots are counted.  - Ned

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 19:43 | 5301219 Freddie
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We wish but the elites and MIC control the NeoCons too.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:48 | 5299659 Al Huxley
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As long as they're taking the same care and precautionary measures as we've seen in Dallas and Madrid, I'm sure they'll be fine.  Sucks to be in the military, you think you might get killed or maimed in combat, but bet most of these guys didn't figure on bleeding to death through their eyes and assholes.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:51 | 5299666 walküre
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Let's hope our boots on the ground will be equipped with

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOPP

Get it in your brains numbskulls. The area is contaminated. The entire place is fucked up and the virus could be carried and transmitted by anything. We just don't know.

DO NOT TAKE A FUCKING CHANCE WITH YOUR LIFE

Pretend you're operating in an area after a lethal gas attack.

MOPP Level 4 — All protection worn.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:59 | 5299723 SmallerGovNow2
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you know how fucking hot MOPP4 is?  The suits are charcoal filtered/breathable (or they were when i was in).  you can't wash them down.  gloves, boot covers, and hood/mask can be washed down but extensive as hell.  A new suit every time they go out?  Pricey...  The logistics of this alone is an absolute fucking nightmare.  Are these guys being used as canaries?  This is total FUBAR...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:23 | 5299859 walküre
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They will need the best mobile decontamination units along with it. Let's not get all wild and crazy here. This is a virus, a biological agent. The suits and the application are desiged for this stuff. The agent can be either washed off or fumigated off.

Sending the troops actually makes more sense than sending medical staff. There's no cure for this anyway. Military can and will shoot on sight or do what it takes when given the orders.

The outbreak needs to run its course and the population needs to be monitored to stay put. That's all that anyone can do.

Making sure this gets contained in West Africa is a good reason to have a well equipped military. Fighting terrorist boogeymen in the caves of Tora Bora or in a Syrian shithole is not.

WHO is looking at this from the wrong angle.

West Africa needs internment camps, incinerators and guards to monitor the population.

End of story.

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:28 | 5300169 Wahooo
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If that is the case, we are now an occupying military force waging war on a civilian population. Where is the constitutional justification for that?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:26 | 5300500 walküre
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Since when did that ever matter? If you prefer to get a full day presentation by Colin Powell to ease your mind, I'm sure it can be arranged. But why would you deliberately ask to being lied to?

Why is China's military in the Sudan? There's no war there that would justify their involvement. They're protecting Chinese oil and gas assets.

If anything, this reminds me of how Vietnam started. First we sent 3,000 troops to assist the French and in the end we lost 50,000. Chinese were assisting the VC and butchering our guys.

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:07 | 5300075 Urban Redneck
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97F in Monrovia tomorrow... wouldn't want to have to walk around in an M50 Darth Vader claustrophobia mask all day.

On the bright side, my recollection of the suits is that they were cheaply made, so the .gov could (in theory) pay less than a fortune for them.

Do Michael Chertoff or Jeh Johnson have any relatives who have worked in DoD procurement?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:12 | 5300092 Government need...
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The African summer is just hotting up.  Anyone wearing full bioweapons gear will be swimming inside of it in less than 10 hours.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:36 | 5300560 New_Meat
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but the activated carbon will keep them from stinking

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 19:47 | 5301221 Freddie
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They are being used as hosts and carriers.

Meanwhile - this weekend - tens of hundreds of thousands of idiots go to idiolize college football players and their country is being destroyed and their lives taken away.   TV supports O 100% and TV makes it's big money on sports.  Dumb dumb sheep who watch.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:32 | 5300524 Overflow-admin
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Better wear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_pressure_personnel_suit

MOPP suits are NOT impervious. They are used to avoid lethal doses, not exposure.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:52 | 5299676 graftvshost
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Quote: This is what they do for a living.

 

"Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy."

Josey Wales

 


Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:53 | 5299682 Evil Bugeyes
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This is not a -- you know, just medical guys trained to do this. This is what they do for a living.

Treating combat injuries is not at all like treating a contagious disease. You can't catch a gunshot wound by contact with someone who already has one.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:55 | 5299687 RattNRoll
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A brave new world, in a brave new world
A brave new world, in a brave new world
In a brave new world, a brave new world
In a brave new world, a brave new world

Dragon kings dying queens, where is salvation now
Lost my life lost my dreams, rip the bones from my flesh
Silent screams laughing here, dying to tell you the truth
You are planned and you are damned in this brave new world

-Iron Maiden

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:54 | 5299689 tuttisaluti
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when you join the army, you have to live your brain at home. If you have one.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:55 | 5299694 Jethro
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With any luck, Mecca is Ground Zero for ebola transmission around the muslim world.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:25 | 5299876 walküre
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wait for the hazmat burkha

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:56 | 5299695 yogibear
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Another way Obama and his libtards can eliminate the military. After military personal start dying from the disease people won't want to enlist.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:21 | 5299854 o.t.p.s
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There is always a draft...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:23 | 5299865 10mm
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They have new recruits waiting to serve. Illegals

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:57 | 5299700 Pimp Daddy
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Just more proof this is another hoax - troops don't get sent it in to fight viruses, boots on the ground means TAKEOVER and TAKECOVER!!!  I think they found some more diamonds, oil and other natural resources in Africa that need to be protected.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:58 | 5299706 gwar5
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This is just sick. This is not what the military is for. These are armed troops not medical teams. 

All these guys are good for is to set up isolation camps, military style. So how is it they should be coming into contact with victims?  What are these guys really there for, guinea pigs and human petri dishes, or shoot quarantine violators? 

Send Obama.    

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:01 | 5299726 o.t.p.s
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Yup, West africa, the new training ground for the new normal, commin soon to you too

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:58 | 5299707 fuu
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I have a bad feeling about this.

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