Obama to Deploy Troops Against Ebola in West Africa, Ebola Virus ray guns in development. (Newsmax).
President Barack Obama plans to announce a major offensive this week against the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, including U.S. military involvement, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Obama will outline his plans Tuesday during a visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, sources told the Journal. The president also is expected to ask Congress for $88 million to fund the effort.
"There's a lot that we've been putting toward this, but it is not sufficient," Obama's counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco told the Journal. "So the president has directed a more scaled-up response and that's what you're going to hear more about on Tuesday."
The military is expected to use its coordinating expertise to direct supplies, put up tent hospitals pull together medical personnel from across the world as well as train health care workers. Offshore ship hospitals have been ruled out over fears that the virus could spread rapidly though the vessels. Hmmm....Somehow i don't think US troops is what's needed now in West Africa.
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