After today's senate confirmation hearings for president Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, many prominent Obama supporters may want to change his name to Upchuck Hagel. In an amazingly incompetent performance, Hagel did the following:
1) Hagel would not say whether or not the surge in Iraq was a success in response to repeated questions on the topic from Senator McCain. Prior to the surge, and long after it had worked to bring the fighting in Iraq to an end, Hagel continued to call it a total failure; hence McCain's question.
2) Hagel mischaracterized the contents of a report he co-authored for a think tank called Global Zero. In the report, Hagel advocates for unilateral nuclear disarmament by the USA. Hagel denied this in response to questions by Senator Sessions. Even when Sessions read the text of the report to Hagel, he tried to explain it away.
3) Hagel repeatedly stated that he supports Israel and wants to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. He is unable to explain why he was one of only two senators who voted against sanctions on Iran for continuing that weapons program. He is also calls the mullahs in Teheran the "legitimate" government of Iran. After lunch (and no doubt after a frenzied call from the White House), Hagel changes the word from "legitimate" to "recognized".
4) Hagel was unable to explain why he was one of only twelve senators who refused to sign a letter designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Hagel also cannot state why he refused to condemn the terror campaign against Israel called the "intifada".
5) In response to questions from Senator Cruz of Texas, Hagel could not explain why he accused Israel of engaging in the "sickening slaughter" of Hezbollah. (To be clear, Hagel was talking about Israeli counterattacks on Hezbollah missile sites used to launch missiles on the Israeli civilian population.) Hagel also could not explain why he called the USA the "world's bully" in 2009.
There's more, but this is just a sample. Without a doubt, Hagel is a dope. Clearly, he should have realized that all these questions would be asked of him. How can he show up without answers?
Let's be clear. It is bad enough that Hagel is pro-Iranian, anti-Israeli and even anti-American. There already are folks like that in the Obama Administration. It is, however, much worse that we will soon have a Secretary of Defense who is not even bright enough to foresee the obvious questions asked of him at the hearing. How will the new Secretary be able to predict future threats to the USA or even to react to danger once it appears. The man is an idiot. We are all in trouble.
1) Hagel would not say whether or not the surge in Iraq was a success in response to repeated questions on the topic from Senator McCain. Prior to the surge, and long after it had worked to bring the fighting in Iraq to an end, Hagel continued to call it a total failure; hence McCain's question.
2) Hagel mischaracterized the contents of a report he co-authored for a think tank called Global Zero. In the report, Hagel advocates for unilateral nuclear disarmament by the USA. Hagel denied this in response to questions by Senator Sessions. Even when Sessions read the text of the report to Hagel, he tried to explain it away.
3) Hagel repeatedly stated that he supports Israel and wants to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. He is unable to explain why he was one of only two senators who voted against sanctions on Iran for continuing that weapons program. He is also calls the mullahs in Teheran the "legitimate" government of Iran. After lunch (and no doubt after a frenzied call from the White House), Hagel changes the word from "legitimate" to "recognized".
4) Hagel was unable to explain why he was one of only twelve senators who refused to sign a letter designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Hagel also cannot state why he refused to condemn the terror campaign against Israel called the "intifada".
5) In response to questions from Senator Cruz of Texas, Hagel could not explain why he accused Israel of engaging in the "sickening slaughter" of Hezbollah. (To be clear, Hagel was talking about Israeli counterattacks on Hezbollah missile sites used to launch missiles on the Israeli civilian population.) Hagel also could not explain why he called the USA the "world's bully" in 2009.
There's more, but this is just a sample. Without a doubt, Hagel is a dope. Clearly, he should have realized that all these questions would be asked of him. How can he show up without answers?
Let's be clear. It is bad enough that Hagel is pro-Iranian, anti-Israeli and even anti-American. There already are folks like that in the Obama Administration. It is, however, much worse that we will soon have a Secretary of Defense who is not even bright enough to foresee the obvious questions asked of him at the hearing. How will the new Secretary be able to predict future threats to the USA or even to react to danger once it appears. The man is an idiot. We are all in trouble.
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