Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Questions from the News

Questions from the News #1

President Bush and VP Cheney contended that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.  We went.  We found none.  At least so we were led to believe by the Pentagon.  Now we find out that there were thousands of chemical weapons discovered and even handled by our troops in Iraq and have now fallen into the hands of ISIS.

Bush and Cheney certainly had nothing to gain by denying the existence of these weapons.  It would have been the ultimate “I told you so!”

Q-1. Why would the Pentagon not report to the American public that these weapons of mass destruction had been discovered?

Q-2. Why would these chemical weapons be left in a position to be captured by any group that is unfriendly to the rest of the world, let alone the United States?


Questions from the News #2

From the start, the CDC and the Dallas hospital that handled the initial Ebola victim said that the patient was handled properly and that the disease would be contained.  Two nurses that worked with the patient are now diagnosed with Ebola.  Now we learn that they didn’t do anything right.  There was no effective protection afforded to these health care workers and in fact hazardous biological waste was piling up and not disposed of properly.

The CDC now says that they know how to respond.  Incidentally, the military health care system has known all along how to properly respond and protect those who work with infected patients.

The CDC now says that they are looking at 77 people who were in contact with the Ebola patient.  Susan and I counted the number of people that we had contact with since this past Monday morning.  We came up with a very conservative number of 32 people.  We’re talking in terms of people that we touched or items that we touched that would immediately be touched by another person.  Using those criteria we determined that if those 32 people each touched another 32 people, and those people each touched another 32 people, in just three generations of passing Ebola on to others, over 1,000,000 people would have been exposed to Ebola.  (BTW—WE HAVE NOT BEEN EXPOSED TO EBOLA, we think.)  Yes, I know there is a 21 day period before you become contagious.  That’s a nice number if you life in Africa where most people have never been to a doctor in their lives.  Might it be more like 30-35 days in the U.S. where we have a fairly healthy population and where most of us have seen a doctor several times in a lifetime?

Q-1. If the CDC had it wrong to begin with, what makes us think they have it right now?

Q-2. Why are we only looking at 77 people?  Theoretically, exposure only takes place when the infected person displays the symptoms.  Please refer to Q-1.  (Consider now also that health experts are telling us that the Ebola virus is quite capable of mutating to the point where it can be spread through the air.)

Q-3. Why are we not closing the border to all travel from Western Africa?  Great Britain has.

Q-4. If our military health care people knew how to respond to the Ebola crisis, why didn’t the CDC follow their lead?

Questions from the News #3

President Obama now acknowledges that we underestimated ISIS (or in his words: ISIL) and that they are stronger than what we anticipated.  ISIS continues to march onward, beheading western hostages, torturing and slaughtering innocent citizens in their path through Syria and Iraq.  Intelligence reports available to President Obama months before the rest of the world knew of ISIS, reported that ISIS was on its way.  Lest we forget, President Bush, Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney all predicted that if we withdrew that we’d be back in Iraq.

The mainstream media would have us believe that ISIS is composed of a bunch of conscripts running around in black pajamas acting like a bunch of clowns.  The reality is that ISIS fighters are professional fighters led by the second in command of the Iraq Army prior to the Iraq War and that these fighters are using weapons that we left behind and with training that we gave them.  Yes, it’s complicated.

President Obama asserts again and again that we will not commit to “Boots on the Ground” but we will continue with air strikes.  His military advisors and his former Secretary of Defense contend that boots on the ground are necessary to combat ISIS.  To date, we have launched about 200 air strikes against ISIS, much of which has been ineffective. Two-hundred airstrikes is nothing.  That would be spelled N-O-T-H-I-N-G.

Q-1. Why didn’t Obama respect the advice of his top advisors instead of dealing with ISIS as the JV team?

Q-2. If the idiotic, stupid, clumsy, moronic, hated, deceptive President George W. Bush and the “Binders of Women” Mitt Romney could see it coming, why couldn’t Mr. Obama?

Q-3. Experts tell us that it will be a matter of time before we have “Boots on the Ground”.  I don’t really want us over there at all, but it appears that there really is no other alternative.  Why don’t we just do it and get it over with?  (Besides, we already have “Boots on the Ground” there.  There just aren’t very many of them.)


Q-4. Just how much confidence are we to have in the media if they continue to portray ISIS as men running around in black pajamas when in fact we are dealing with a professional killing machine?

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