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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 - 14:00 | 5299715 Goldbugger
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A friend of mine works for a large hospital and they had an urgent meeting last thursday all Directors involved and said " We are not prepared for this" Our current gowns are not impervious  and fluid can have break through if saturated with blood or bodily fluids. "

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:28 | 5300171 Infinite QE
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Gowns are irrelevant and this weapon is airborne.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 19:50 | 5301241 Freddie
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Maybe one of the doctors or anyone with a brain would have said - some people voted for this in 2008 and 2012.  

Nice job dumb fux

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 17:02 | 5299721 homiegot
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Indict the Defense Department for pre-meditated murder.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:00 | 5299728 medium giraffe
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'Dave's Disposable Heros'

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:01 | 5299729 Bumbu Sauce
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The troops tasked to go to the hellhole that is Africant should aquire arms from their armory and drive to DC to eradicate the source of their problem.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:01 | 5299742 kumquatsunite
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African news sources are stating that the Liberian Health Care Workers Association is planning a strike beginning on the 13th of this month if a new agreement is not locked in by the 10th of this month. The health care workers are asking for approximately a three times increase in what they are currently making. They believe that all the funds pouring into Liberia are being scammed by the officials, who abscond to safer places with the money. Part of their argument is that their has to be a hazard pay value for working with ebola. 

So all those nice new ebola centers the military (Our US soldiers) is building are going to be staffed by Who? Oh right...as long as they are already there the US soldiers will be commandeered won't they? 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:30 | 5299888 walküre
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typical African corruption bullshit

how many African community organizers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

never enough, all hands are always open and on the take and nothing gets done - FUCKING EVER

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:19 | 5300123 SAT 800
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The history of the continent in a nutshell.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:03 | 5299748 Farmer Joe in B...
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Can you imagine if one of these troops being sent over was your husband/wife, daughter/son, etc...?? 

What the fuck are we doing??!? 

Over/under on how long before one of these troops is infected??  I say by the end of October.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:08 | 5300082 Government need...
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In this Obamanation, every statement, every oath, every loyalty will be used and exploited.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 19:53 | 5301249 Freddie
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People voted for this and 2012 was rigged for this.  Where is the military?  Who is defending The Constitution?   How many idiots will be at college and NFL games this weekend?   Maybe if everyone shut off the TV then something might change.

Americans who watch TV and Hollywood crap deserve what is coming.  You vote for every time you turn on the TV.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:07 | 5299765 F0ster
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Talk about a foreign entanglement. Our military should protect our borders at home and ban most flights and connecting flights from Africa instead of being sent to Liberia (a soon to be new IS front)

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:09 | 5299784 10mm
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"Beware Of Foriegn Entanglements" George Washington

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:10 | 5299790 youngman
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This is Obama showing his Bros he still cares about them.....you have to take care of the Bros.....and he thinks I am racist...lol....I wonder if he is only sending black troops over there...that would be fitting for the cause..

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:14 | 5299800 Nexus789
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If the only tool you have is a hammer every solution looks like a nail. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:15 | 5299814 10mm
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What did Kissinger say about soldiers??

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:17 | 5299831 RattNRoll
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Pawns

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:20 | 5299841 overmedicatedun...
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so let me understand a general (not medical service) says this is what these troops do every day??

we had leadership like this in nam, us enlisted delt with them..take that hill sure sure sir you first.

or map postion says we are here at the objective right lt, right?

ooops dropped that frag right on the officers hooch, my bad.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:23 | 5299853 alexcojones
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Fuck You David Fucking Rodriguez

And the Fucking Satanist Pentagram you Serve.

Sincerely, A US veteran

Soldier: Just Say No, I Won't Go
Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:55 | 5300016 g speed
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"one two three what are we fighting four"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W7-ngmO_p8

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:33 | 5299905 FlSapo
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Seems like theres nothing to admit, kind of a given...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:35 | 5299924 Spungo
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Politicians are so retarded that they think the "war on ebola" is literally a war faught with bullets and stuff.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:37 | 5299934 Everybodys All ...
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So rather than ban travel to visas stamped with W. Africa this moron Obama sends our most valuable assets there instead. He is a treasonous fuck pure and simple. Blast away all you liberal dunces and defend your boy.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:47 | 5299991 Oil_City_News
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... this story comes to mind, so hard to keep a certain perspective on things...

 

What Country Just Deployed Troops To Defend Its Oil Fields Located On A Distant Continent?

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-09/what-country-just-deployed-troo...

 

The airlift of the Chinese infantry battalion to the South Sudanese states of Unity and Upper Nile, the site of the only operating oil fields still under control of the central government in Juba, was expected to take several days, spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny said.

 

 

While Beijing's troops will operate under U.N. command, their posting to South Sudan marks a sharp escalation of China's efforts to ensure the safety of its workers and assets in Africa, and guarantee a steady flow of energy for domestic consumption....

 

State-owned China's National Petroleum Corp. holds a 40% stake in a joint venture that operates South Sudan's vast oil fields. The company also operates a 1,000-mile export pipeline that ships crude through neighboring Sudan to Port Sudan on the Red Sea....

 

...Under its mandate, U.N. peacekeepers are allowed to use "all necessary means" to protect imperiled civilians at oil installations. If attacked, Mr. Ateny said, the Chinese soldiers are "combat ready and can fight back."....

But is China about to make a grave mistake and barge like a United States in a, well, middle-eastern store? The rebellious locals are doing their best to make sure China does not overstep its limitations and become a second United States....

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:11 | 5300090 walküre
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Pretty clear they want US boots on the ground for one reason or another.

Nigeria is close.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:49 | 5300001 Zymurguy
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Just a few days ago the story was that they would NOT be coming in contact with infected persons.

They WANT to bring this into the US... its terribly clear.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:01 | 5300050 Government need...
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Grunts always serve as the first wave of guinea pigs to test new generations of weapons.  Just look at all the nuclear exposure members of the Armed Forces took circa 1945 (and after).  For those about to die, I salute you.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:57 | 5300027 Bioscale
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I know that it is not right, but these ebola stories are somehow similar to the ISIS stories, it makes little sense and seems to be carefuly constructed plan covered by  lies and disinformation. Like 9/11, Sandy Hook, Boston and stuff.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:00 | 5300044 Government need...
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Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant!

Hail, Emperor.  Those who are about to die salute you!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:37 | 5300210 SAT 800
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Don't pay any attention to the man behind the curtain. And don't have time and emotional resources left-over to research anything that's actually going on in the new Nazimerica.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 14:58 | 5300034 alexcojones
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Reagan sent US Marines to Beirut, and the were blown up.

Obama sends troops to Africa - and some will die there - but most will will come back here to the USA.

Where they will blow up far more, undoubtedly infect far greater numbers.

30th Anniverary of Beirut Marine Corps Bombing Debacle
Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:19 | 5300127 pcrs
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Good thinking, it will take people's minds of the state of the economy.

Make an expensive vaccine and together with Obama care, you can solve whatever financial problem you have. I am thinking of social security.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:39 | 5300218 SAT 800
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"I am thinking of social security"; some one else is too. every problem has a solution; it might not be very "nice"; but it's there, somewhere.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:06 | 5300077 ClowardPiven2016
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die from ebola.....This is what they do for a living.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:17 | 5300107 Dingleberry
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So general......what did the docs and nurses who caught the virus while serving over there as missionaries do for a "living"........ya know?

Can't wait for the troops to return home, and hug and snuggle their kids, wives and such.

Should be an interesting experiment.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:18 | 5300115 pcrs
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They are there to test the new vaccine

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:27 | 5300162 Fuku Ben
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They love it when a plan comes together

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 15:27 | 5300163 Infinite QE
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Their fate is the same as the sailors on the Reagan carrier who were sent into the plumes of Fukushima without any onhand meds.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:16 | 5300431 IndianaJohn
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Our well trained and superbly armed troops can easily defeat ebola in a fair fight. 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:32 | 5300520 Goldilocks
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The Guineapigs
http://www.irishresistancebooks.com/guineapigs/guineapigs.htm

by John McGuffin (1974, 1981)

Originally published in London by Penguin Books, 1974. Paperback, 192 pp. Out of Print.
2nd edition Minuteman Press, San Francisco, 1981. Paperback, 75 pp. Out of Print.

From the back cover (2nd edition):

The Guineapigs in the title were fourteen Irish political prisoners on whom the British Army experimented with sensory deprivation torture in 1971. These 'techniques' are now outlawed, following Britain's conviction at the International Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg, but have been exported and used by Britain's allies throughout the world. This book first appeared in 1974, published by Penguin Books in London. It sold out on its first print run and was then abruptly taken off the market following pressure from the British Government.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:59 | 5300680 Equality 7-25-1
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When Rodriguez gets ebola, well, thats what stupid does.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:34 | 5301013 graspAU
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 “I wouldn’t go to war again as I have to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.” – Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, USA – (1881-1940).

From everyone's favorite, Wikipedia - By the end of his career, Butler had received 16 medals, five for heroism. He is one of 19 men to receive the Medal of Honor twice, one of three to be awarded both the Marine Corps Brevet Medal and the Medal of Honor, and the only Marine to be awarded the Brevet Medal and two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions.

During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, in Central America and the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I.

 

Wed, 10/08/2014 - 14:29 | 5304407 potato
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This great man must be mentioned often, lest anyone still doesn't know of him. Let's not let our young people make the wrong decision and enlist.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 18:53 | 5301092 q99x2
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They seem to have no better purpose in life than to die from ebola in their efforts to spread disease and mayhem for bankster globalists. I was thinking of asking one of them at college why they are so F'd up in the head but decided not to.

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