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OBAMA AUTHORIZES GUARD, RESERVE CALL-UP FOR EBOLA
AP ^ | 16 Oct 2014 | JIM KUHNHENN

Posted on 10/16/2014 2:31:03 PM PDT by shove_it

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Thursday authorized the Pentagon to call up reserve and National Guard troops if they are needed to assist in the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Obama signed an executive order that allows the government to call up more forces and for longer periods of time than currently authorized. There is no actual call-up at this point...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ebola; nationalguard; obama; reserves
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To: shove_it

I suspect the call-up is legitimate, but the pretense is FALSE. These troops are probably actually intended to suppress rioting and mayhem in the big cities once Ebola gets out and the economy crashes.


41 posted on 10/16/2014 2:49:02 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: ealgeone

Isn’t the National Guard for defending us here at home?


42 posted on 10/16/2014 2:49:03 PM PDT by Mrs. P
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To: shove_it

What are they going to do?

Shoot people?

Obama is such a dum-bass.


43 posted on 10/16/2014 2:49:47 PM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: skeeter

Every time he does something totally outrageous, he DOUBLES DOWN!!


44 posted on 10/16/2014 2:50:20 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: shove_it

How are they going to fight this germ?


45 posted on 10/16/2014 2:51:15 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: NEMDF
"And then, we can replace them ALL with gays and illegals!!"

I am imagining a TV sitcom about a military unit (something like Sgt Bilko) made up of nothing but gays.

For example...just imagine a gay drill sgt.

46 posted on 10/16/2014 2:51:52 PM PDT by capt. norm
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To: shove_it

I’d go AWOL before I’d be sent to Africa.


47 posted on 10/16/2014 2:56:32 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: backwoods-engineer

fta: “The U.S. has committed to send up to 4,000 military personnel to West Africa to provide logistics and humanitarian assistance and help build treatment units to confront the rapidly spreading and deadly virus.”

PresIDent 0bama wouldn’t tell a lie, would he?


48 posted on 10/16/2014 2:56:39 PM PDT by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: capt. norm
For example...just imagine a gay drill sgt.


49 posted on 10/16/2014 2:57:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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To: Bryanw92

Agreed.


50 posted on 10/16/2014 2:57:43 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: Penny 4 Thoughts
I sometimes wonder if Obama has more allegiance to Africa than he does to the U.S.

Really? I don't.

51 posted on 10/16/2014 2:58:28 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: shove_it

52 posted on 10/16/2014 2:59:10 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: shove_it

Honestly, if I were Guardsman, I would not go. Period.


53 posted on 10/16/2014 3:02:04 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: shove_it

Liberia has a sizeable population of Sunni Muslims (sympathetic to ISIS). They may have more than just Ebola to worry about.


54 posted on 10/16/2014 3:07:13 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Like I said before, someone in Liberia and/or Brussels wants those flights to continue. They shut down the flights for a short period last summer but reopened them in late August or early September due to “pressure” from Brussels. Follow the money.


55 posted on 10/16/2014 3:07:56 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: Iron Munro

But the American people are not behind him on this. How can it benefit the moron? Or the Morozombie democrats?


56 posted on 10/16/2014 3:08:10 PM PDT by crazydad
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To: crazydad

There’s so much shit we don’t know, it’s terrifying.


57 posted on 10/16/2014 3:15:30 PM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: stephenjohnbanker
” Hey! Let’s see if we can infect the entire national defense workforce, right down to the level of reserves and national guard!”

Exactly what Obama has in mind.

What you day, SJB

58 posted on 10/16/2014 3:16:57 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Valerie Jarrett warned us they would "get even with those who opposed them"..)
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To: shove_it

Unless Liberia, Sierra Leone, et al are actually among the 50+ States, the National Guard has absolutely NO business being deployed there…


59 posted on 10/16/2014 3:23:21 PM PDT by mikrofon (Quarantine 0bola)
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To: shove_it

The national guard should say no and placed on our southern border by a new leader. Obama needs to be removed by congress.


60 posted on 10/16/2014 3:27:20 PM PDT by jetson (we got a bog fcking problem her)
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