Posted on 11/24/2014 12:11:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was fired by the Obama administration today.
The former senator is even too stupid for Obama.
Obama said Hagel had “been in the dirt” of combat like no other defense chief.
The New York Times reported:
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel handed in his resignation on Monday, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama’s Democratic majority in the Senate and the struggles of his national security team to respond to an onslaught of global crises.
In announcing Mr. Hagel’s resignation from the State Dining Room on Monday, the president, flanked by Mr. Hagel and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., called Mr. Hagel critical to ushering the military “through a significant period of transition” and lauded “a young Army sergeant from Vietnam who rose to serve as America’s 24th secretary of defense.”
Mr. Obama called Mr. Hagel “no ordinary secretary of defense,” adding that he had “been in the dirt” of combat like no other defense chief. He said that Mr. Hagel would remain in the job until his successor is confirmed by the Senate.
Administration officials said that Mr. Obama made the decision to remove Mr. Hagel, the sole Republican on his national security team, last Friday after a series of meetings between the two men over the past two weeks.
The officials characterized the decision as a recognition that the threat from the militant group Islamic State will require different skills from those that Mr. Hagel, who often struggled to articulate a clear viewpoint and was widely viewed as a passive defense secretary, was brought in to employ.
Mr. Hagel, a combat veteran who was skeptical about the Iraq war, came in to manage the Afghanistan combat withdrawal and the shrinking Pentagon budget in the era of budget sequestrations.
Hagel blamed Obama in June for the controversial Bergdahl-Taliban swap.
0bama’s stupidity picked Hagel.
Wait until we see his replacement.
Well now, he won’t be tied down to a job, and can collect unemployment benefits, which will help to stimulate the economy. So this is a good thing for him, right?
Sorry to hear Hagel was fired. I was hoping the stench of this regime had gotten too bad even for Hagel and he had resigned. Guess not. A fool to the end.
He is still an embarrassment to the Cornhuskers who voted for him twice.
It doesn’t matter who fills any post in the administration: all are identical in views.
One of the early articles on Hagel’s resignation said that Hagel differed with Obama on the handling of ISIS and thought that ISIS was a much more serious threat to whole world than Obama was willing to admit. The article went on to say that Hagel never really fit in with Obama’s other aids and advisors and would wait until Security council meeting were over to voice his opinions.
It is my guess that Obama resented being cornered and being forced to explain his agenda. Obama hates to take responsibility and cornering him would make him really irate.
Maybe Hagel will write a tell all book.
Yes, and Jean sKerry is still SecState so 0dumbo's stupidity rolls on.
The dork will not have anyone working for him who is smarter than he is.
Which pretty much limits the slime ball to choosing folks to the left side of the left three sigma mark on the Bell curve.
That thing should be a rodeo clown..............those outfits I see posted would be perfect running around in front of the bull!
Hagel may have been an idiot but I think he was fired because he said ISIS is a serious threat and because he met with Israel’s Defense Minister when he was being shunned by Obama and Kerry.
Hagel's confirmation hearings before he became Secretary of Defense confirmed GWB's good judgment in not picking Hagel.
I agree with post #9, Hagel was not a yes man and the One could not handle it.
Hagel might not have been the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he could not accept the lack of leadership showed by the current holder of the Office of President.
I think Panetta left for the same reason.
Hagel may have learned some things on the job that he didn’t realize before, when he was shooting off his mouth lambasting Bush at every turn.
Whats strange is the rodeo clown was insulting, but not that idiot woman.
Who is that? Reminds me of Harold & Kumar’s when they were at the whorehouse!
US Representative Frederica Wilson, (D-FL 24th District)
All her spare money goes towards fancy cloths , LOL
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