On the recordNovember 20, 2014
My dear friend from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelly) is exactly right. We haven't heard the last of Ebola. It will continue to mutate. It will continue to be a threat. As this President is sending around 3,000 or so of our military members to west Africa--and they have been told they are going to be given gloves and masks and are urged to wash their hands and feet several times a day--basically, what that says is the men and women who have sworn and pledged their lives to protect ours are not going to be adequately protected by this administration. The rules of engagement already put our military at risk, and now, we are going to send them to Ebola-infested countries. The initial report said, initially, our military will not be seeing Ebola patients, but they are certainly going to come into contact with people who have had exposure to Ebola. I recall our President George W. Bush--a good man, a smart man, a witty, clever gentleman, despite what some might say--but he asked after 9/11, in essence, who would have ever dreamed someone would fly a plane into a building like a bomb? My thought immediately was, ``Well, actually, Tom Clancy wrote about that several years ago.'' It was not a radical Islamist as had happened on 9/11/2001. The late Tom Clancy had quite an imagination, but he did his homework in amazing fashion.…
