Posted on 06/04/2008 6:01:01 PM PDT by Obadiah
SPIEGEL: Senator Hagel, your friend and Republican presidential candidate John McCain says that the United States Army has a moral obligation to stay in Iraq. Is he right?
Hagel: We have responsibilities, no doubt about it. We invaded Iraq, we are occupying Iraq and we have made Iraq dependent on us. By our actions we have done terrible damage to our own country and undermined our interests in the world.
SPIEGEL: What are the consequences?
Hagel: Our first moral obligation is to our own people whom we keep sending back to Iraq again and again. Four-thousand US soldiers have given their lives, over 30,000 have been wounded, many seriously. I just got an e-mail today from the father of a helicopter pilot. His son is going back to Iraq for the fifth time. That is not acceptable.
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Who could have imagined in 2004 that a Republican senator would get away with this?
Chuck Hagel is a scumbag, I hope Barry asks him to be his running mate.
Senator from where?
Basra?
Der Weasel in Der Spiegel.
We have such RINO’s because the R-Party doesn’t vet their applicants.
He and McClellan have a lot in common.
Chuck Hagel showed his true colors long ago.
Obviously, Hagel never was a conservative.
he's just a typical RINO. He ran as a R because he couldn't be elected as a D. Now he can't be elected as an R anymore either.
At one time the Nebraska delegation was ENTIRELY R's. It's a conservative state. No WAY Hagel would get relected there knowing him as the people of NE do now.
Black lady, started telling me how bad things would get with Schumer in charge and ...
I stopped her and told her that it was no longer my problem. The day that John "Maverick" McCain becomes the leading republican and the nominee of the GOP is the day that I leave the party. Then I hung up.
Watching that nominating process with interest.
Hagel is a nit-wit.
The fundamental problem is not that the Arabs (and Iranians, and etc.) don’t trust the US, its that the US CAN’T trust the Arabs (and Iranians and etc.). That whole negotiation business is beside the point.
The queer thing here is that if there is anyone the Arabs (and Iranians and etc.) DO trust, its the US. They certainly know better than to trust each other
Nor the Europeans either, not that it matters very much in their case, as they are impotent. That was Rumsfeld & Co.’s realization. Long ago they were useful in keeping off the communists. Now they are useless for anything at all. Hagel and his ilk are living in the past.
Doesn't say much for Republican voters who vote for these clymers and send money to the party.
I'm stopping the money and the voting. Period.
They're going to pass the same amnesty which is my main issue.
And they're going to pass the same globull warming horse hockey which is my secondary issue.
And they're all going to appoint the same limp wristed judges.
So why bother to vote for one.
The lesser of 2 evils is still evil and I won't be party to it anymore.
Hagel is either blind or hishonest.
What damage has the war done to our country? The only thing I can think of is that disappointment in the war has put the country in danger of returning to the days of Jimmy Carter. There is a case to be made, even if Bush and Rice are incapable of making it, that we have had success, even if it is hard to see. IN todays WSJ, Fouad Ajami does this. . “It is not easy to tell people of threats and dangers they have been spared,” says Ajami. The public has taken the lack of recent attacks on American interests to mean that there were no dangers in the first place. The Left is convinced that Al Qaeda is a mere bogey man. It cannot admit that the “surge” prevented Al Qaeda from establishing a base right in the middle of Iraq, and more importantly, discredited Al Qaeda in the minds of many Arabs. In this respect, the surge recapitulated the early success in Afghanistan. Furthermore, its lessons are not being applied in Afghanistan against the Taliban. “Clear, hold, and build”
ought to work even better than in Iraq because the Afghanis are tougher troops.
“Doesn’t say much for Republican voters who vote for these clymers and send money to the party.”
What can I say other than your right. The RINO’s and now even the Dems campaign to the Right. Once elected they shed their facades, and become the Leftists, or Leftist enablers they really are.
They need to be vetted thoroughly, and sign a Conservative pledge before they can claim an “R” designation.
those are all denver bronco supporters in nebraska,
you hafta wonder why they vote for hagel.
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