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I Went Halfway Around the World with Chuck Hagel—and All I Learned Was That He Was Doomed
TNR ^ | 11/26/2014 | By Reid Cherlin

Posted on 11/26/2014 6:27:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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ONE KEY WORD YOU GET OUT OF THE ARTICLE....

HUMAN PLACEHOLDER


1 posted on 11/26/2014 6:27:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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The day before Hagel took off from Andrews Air Force Base, however, Bashar al-Assad launched a Sarin attack on his own people,

Propaganda....why would I even read this?

2 posted on 11/26/2014 6:35:43 AM PST by Lady Heron
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To: SeekAndFind

I fail to see anything new here. Everyone on this site new from the beginning that this was another Obama lightweight appointee. Another example of mediocrity. Another Psychophant. What were his qualifications? What did he bring to the table?


3 posted on 11/26/2014 6:45:42 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: SeekAndFind

The leader who selects the management team is responsible. Not the management team!


4 posted on 11/26/2014 6:47:05 AM PST by tired&retired
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another boot-licker appointment?


5 posted on 11/26/2014 6:56:20 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: nikos1121

Ever heard of Google? Two Purple Hearts, started and built Vanguard Cellular, 12 years in the U S Senate. But obviously not qualified in YOUR humble opinion.


6 posted on 11/26/2014 6:56:59 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good article but, like most of this type, it fails to give even the slightest credit (or blame) to the America hating cretin who appointed Hagel.


7 posted on 11/26/2014 7:14:30 AM PST by keat
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To: bigbob

Thank you, the treatment of this hero by “both” parties has been disgusting.

Bambi using him as “Republican window dressing” and the cowardly intimations from his own partisans that he is a foreign agent.

All of course from people who took the opportunity not to serve in the military..


8 posted on 11/26/2014 7:15:55 AM PST by CharleysPride (non chiedere cio che non si puo prendere)
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The fact that this is Obama’ third SOD tells me the problem is not the SOD, it is Obamas.


9 posted on 11/26/2014 7:18:40 AM PST by mware
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To: SeekAndFind

Th8is is spin. HAgel was well qualifg8ed for the position. He did not agree with the Presidents micromanagement of the SISI conflist. And he spoke out about it publicly. Obama will tolertae many shortcomings in huis staff ( Gadzooks look at Sebelius!) but he will not tolerate effing a hooker on government time or criticizing him.

Hagel criticized Obama. Goodbye Hagel. He was a good man in over his head.Hagel knew that Obama is indeed creating another Vietnam in the ISIS conflict, and well he should know as a Vietnam veteran.

This artcile seks to spin Hagel as incompetent and a “wrong choice”, a “flawed republican.”. Thats just not true.


10 posted on 11/26/2014 7:24:34 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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BOTTOM LINE:

The Commander in Chief is the one who is NOT QUALIFIED and INCOMPETENT.


11 posted on 11/26/2014 7:26:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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This was clearly a HIT piece on Hagel, meant to bolster that creep pos Obama’s firing of him.
New Republic seems to exist to kiss Obama and the left’s ass.


12 posted on 11/26/2014 7:32:53 AM PST by RWGinger
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Hagel laid down with dogs, and he got fleas. He should have known going in, but he never was very bright.


13 posted on 11/26/2014 7:34:14 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: nikos1121

Obama hires incompetents - like himself.


14 posted on 11/26/2014 7:58:30 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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The fact that this is Obama’ third SOD tells me the problem is not the SOD, it is Obamas.

Agreed and emphasis should be added in the fact that this is only within 6 years and that Obama's leadership has been severely criticized by the two predecessors in the SoD chair. Obama and his fellow-travelers are antithetical towards the US Military and as such have a mental disconnect in dealing with it.

15 posted on 11/26/2014 8:18:30 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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What were his qualifications? What did he bring to the table?

Nominally, he's a Republican. And he's dumb as a box of rocks.

That's about it.

16 posted on 11/26/2014 8:38:10 AM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIAshe : Ignorance on Parade)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hagel, the great underwhelmed politico, was picked for the world role that Obama chose for the United States military - the great underwhelmed.

Now, Obama, after paying the political consequences for world reality not living down to his expectations, must chuck Chuck as a scapegoat for actually doing what Obama wanted - nothing.


17 posted on 11/26/2014 8:44:26 AM PST by Wuli
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Bashar al-Assad launched a Sarin attack on his own people,...Stopped reading right there.


18 posted on 11/26/2014 8:52:58 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Candor7
Hagel criticized Obama.

Hagel also criticized Bush every chance he got.

He also defended all the gay moves being made in the military.

Not sure exactly what the guy ever stood for.

19 posted on 11/26/2014 9:57:41 AM PST by what's up
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To: RWGinger

Exactly.


20 posted on 11/26/2014 11:15:17 AM PST by pluvmantelo (Democrats:the party of moral hazard, the IRS, the NSA and the heckler's veto)
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