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Obama says military will help fight Ebola outbreak in West Africa
Fox News ^ | 9/8/2014 | Staff

Posted on 09/08/2014 9:22:11 AM PDT by PilotDave

President Obama has said that the United States military will begin aiding the response to an outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa that has claimed the lives of at least 2,100 people in five countries.

In an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press," Obama said the epidemic was a "national security priority" and added that the military would be involved in setting up isolation units and other equipment, as well as providing security for public health workers from around the world.

"If we do that, then it's still going to be months before this problem is controllable in Africa," Obama said. "But it shouldn't reach our shores."

However, Obama also warned that the virus could conceivably spread beyond West Africa, mutating and becoming more easily transmissible in the process, "and then it could become a serious danger to the United States."

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ebola; ebolaoutbreak; military; obama; obamaebola; westafrica
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To: huldah1776

so they can’t ID this so called soldier, yea right!

The Navy commercial saying they are for justice for all and protect democracies around the world.

How times have changed under this last few years. Not only to men have to now share showers and rooms with other men who want to have sex with them , now only do they have to share rooms with men dressing as women, not only do the submarines have to be refitted to allow women on, not only do women now can apply to go on the front lines along side men with special rules for them, but now we see the Navy commercial and be sent to a third world nation where a deadly disease is killing thousands, instead of fighting a war against muslim terorists


61 posted on 09/08/2014 1:00:08 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: boycott

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid could volunteer their offices as medical facilities.


62 posted on 09/08/2014 1:25:28 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: PilotDave

There are millions of veterans and their families who should be standing up against this. Whose organizing them into a voting block for November?


63 posted on 09/08/2014 1:27:14 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Rummyfan

Can you say Napalm? The only real way to fight this crap.


64 posted on 09/08/2014 2:27:41 PM PDT by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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To: oldasrocks
"Obama says military will help fight Ebola outbreak in West Africa"

IMO, build walls of safety as a shield using the dead bodies of ISIS terrorist for starters.

65 posted on 09/08/2014 2:31:21 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Kartographer
We have a good number of Ebola experts right here on FR, maybe they will sign up and go over and help out.

Nahhhh, they want to bring it here so they don't have to go to *eeeeeew!* Africa.

66 posted on 09/08/2014 8:10:06 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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