Posted on 01/31/2013 11:01:00 AM PST by Nachum
Defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel stated Iran has an “elected, legitimate government” and pointed out its membership in the United Nations, responding to a question Wednesday by Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R., Ga.) about why he would consider negotiations with Iran in light of its terrorist connections:
HAGEL: Well, let’s start with a specific question on a vote, regarding designating the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. You recall, because you were there, there were 22 senators who voted against that. The effort against it — the main point made on the floor of the Senate came from Senator Jim Webb. And his point was we have never, ever designated a part of a legitimate government, a state — and when I say “legitimate,” that doesn’t mean we agree with Iran, but it is a member of the United Nations. Almost all of our allies have embassies in Iran. So that’s why I note — an elected, legitimate government, whether we agree or not. But we have never made any part of a legitimate, independent government, designated them or made part — made them part of a terrorist organization. We’ve just — we’ve never done that.
The 2009 election of Mahmound Ahmadinejad as Iran’s president was widely suspected to be rigged. The streets were filled with furious protestors who were eventually forced to accept the idea that, according to Vanity Fair, “the Iranian authorities managed to process all 39.2 million paper ballots between the close of polls at 10 p.m. local time and the next morning, when Iran’s Interior Ministry officially proclaimed Ahmadinejad the winner with 63 percent of the vote.”
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He’s toast..........
We've got a SOS who called our military Genghis Khan.
Now we have a Sec of Defense nominee who likes the Iranian Gov't.
This is what happens when you have a Chicago community organizer in charge.
That's all one needs to know.
Hagel toes the Administration Line:
Pro-Iran
Anti-Israel
He’s a perfect fit with the Islamist in Chief!
Pardon my cynicism.
Hagel better not get one single R vote. What a demoniac pos.
This is truly nauseating indeed.
The US is emerging as Iran’s biggest backer, thanks to Bambi.
That’s because he really wishes he could do here what Ahmadinejad/Khameni (or whoever is the current mullah in cheof) is doing there.
I bet he thinks that Obama is a legitimate president too.
Why no tough questions for Kerry? Only 3 votes against, followed by a lovefest. The EGOP disgust me. Neither is fit for office, and there are no conservative Senators, save Cruz. Blunt and McCaskill are my senators and I emailed Blunt to ask in what ways he differed from McCaskill, because you could not tell by his recent voting record.
This is what happens when you have a black mozlem communist revolutionary illegal [Chicago community organizer] in charge.
I think that’s the accurate Obama perspective, and that Senator Hagel perfectly represents the Obama worldview.
I disagree. Hagel is a carbon copy of Obama as to how he hates Israel and his reverence for Islamicist. He has, according to his own testimony, lied repeated, according to himself, now he is crawdading and going backwards. He is revising and extending vile remarks going back 20 years...all seem to attack Israel and are sympathetic with Iran, Palastinians, and other Islamicist, such as suicide-murder bombers. He and Obama are like carrots and peas.
You think Hagel will be confirmed or will Obama have to pull the nomination by having Hagel do it himself?.........
I suspect the democrats will close ranks and vote for the Kenyans nominee. He may get a few liberal republicans....Snow, and another 1 or 2. So he will get nominated...and he will not forget today. He now considers the republicans the enemy. He will try to exact a price.
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