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Hagel: The White House Tried to ‘Destroy’ Me
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Posted on 12/18/2015 5:29:30 AM PST by TigerClaws

Jet-lagged from a long overseas trip, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had just sat down with his wife for a quiet dinner at an upscale Italian restaurant in northern Virginia when his phone rang. It was the White House on the line. President Barack Obama wanted to speak with him.

It was Aug. 30, 2013, and the U.S. military was poised for war. Obama had publicly warned Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad that his regime would face consequences if it crossed a “red line” by employing chemical weapons against its own people. Assad did it anyway, and Hagel had spent the day approving final plans for a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missile strikes against Damascus. U.S. naval destroyers were in the Mediterranean, awaiting orders to fire.

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KEYWORDS: 2013; 201308; 20130830; assad; bhosecdef; chemicaalweapons; chemicalattack; chuckhagel; cicobama; dumbass; hagel; obama; obamaforeignpolicy; obamasyria; pentagon; syria; usmilitary; wmd
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1 posted on 12/18/2015 5:29:30 AM PST by TigerClaws
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What did he expect when he got in bed with Obama and company?


2 posted on 12/18/2015 5:30:49 AM PST by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: TigerClaws

Lay down with dogs...


3 posted on 12/18/2015 5:31:06 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God)
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To: demshateGod

Good!


4 posted on 12/18/2015 5:34:15 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: TigerClaws
Hagel: The White House Tried to ‘Destroy’ Me

And you deserve it, pogue!

5 posted on 12/18/2015 5:35:11 AM PST by Old Sarge
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To: TigerClaws

Plenty of evidence even in open source that Assad did not employ those CW weapons

It was a false flag to draw the US into bombing Damascus

Even the UN inspection hinted at this

Hagel was saved from his own president by the Russians


6 posted on 12/18/2015 5:35:34 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: TigerClaws

Can’t use this link without joining. Can the whole article be posted?


8 posted on 12/18/2015 5:39:49 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Hagel previously hinted that the know-nothing imbecile on the Ntl Security Council.....”brilliant strategist” Susan Rice..... is the one who did him in.


9 posted on 12/18/2015 5:40:08 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: TigerClaws
Obama had publicly warned Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad that his regime would face consequences if it crossed a "red line" by employing chemical weapons against its own people. Assad did it anyway,

So they say. I wouldn't be surprised to hear they were planted there by the Saudis, Turks or someone.

10 posted on 12/18/2015 5:41:06 AM PST by McGruff (The only poll I believe in in The North Pole)
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To: bert

I’m sure the lesser evils you champion will get right on that. No matter what. Afterall, after funding EVERYTHING Barry asked for they are bored and are surely willing to hold feet to the fire.


11 posted on 12/18/2015 5:42:02 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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National Security Council in the WH Situation Room thinking up new lies to tell Americans.

Notice top dog advisor the "brilliant" Susan Rice taking notes---planning to make a video starring the State Depts glittering jewel of colossal ignorance---marie harf---offering jobs to terrorists.

12 posted on 12/18/2015 5:43:10 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: TigerClaws

yeah, well, you lie down with dogs there Chuckie boy...


13 posted on 12/18/2015 5:43:36 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TigerClaws

Doesn’t take much to destroy a retarded housefly.


14 posted on 12/18/2015 5:44:27 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: TigerClaws

If Hagel had wanted to redeem himself before stepping down from SecDef, he would have directed troops to descend upon the White House, arrest that Kenyan fraud and his entire cadre of traitors and sycophants.


15 posted on 12/18/2015 5:44:34 AM PST by mkjessup (JimRob: "It's Trump or Cruz, all the others are amnesty pimps" And the man is RIGHT!)
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Obama pretends to be fighting terrorism but it's all words...and no results. What he really does is provide tons of weapons to "friendly" forces in the middle east which he knows will end up going to terrorists. These WH people are playing for the other side. (hat tip circle city)

The WH ding-a-ling shows his true intentions in the last days (hopefully) of his failed presidency.

EVEN MORE BELIEVABLE the ding-a-ling demands compassion for Syrian refugees....but his Heart of Gold has a more lucrative tinge. Sucking up to refugees is a Gimme-The-Money scheme. 75% of US planes return without dropping their ordinance? 45 minute advance warnings to targets? refusing to bomb the oilfields funding ISIS? phony "limited" ground incursions?

All of it is going to be used to enrich him and the missus.

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The failed Libya incursion, etc, and Obama's failure to utter a discouraging word about Christian slaughter by Muslims are multi-layered facets of the obamas get-rich-quick schemes. That's the way the cunning Clintons got-rich- quick....looking the other away at human rights abuses....just as long as the wealthy abusers ponied up big bucks.

Obama's using the presidency as a cash cow......just as Hillary used the State Dept as a cash cow to enrich her family members and all of the Clinton factotums, their cronies, and donors made out like thieves.

The Clintons soak up humongous foundations donations, pocket huge honoraria and collect enormous paychecks from insider business deals involving armaments, oil, telecoms, mining, uranium deposits, etc etc etc.

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THE SYRIAN REFUGEE PLAN: "One Christian Slaughtered Every Five Minutes"
Muslim Persecution of Christians Report
September, 2015 Gatestone Institute
FR POSTED | December 14, 2015 | Raymond Ibrahim / FR Posted by SJackson

16 posted on 12/18/2015 5:45:45 AM PST by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: TigerClaws

All by design!


17 posted on 12/18/2015 5:48:51 AM PST by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: bert

Absolutely, Obama and his voters are a threat to our national security.


18 posted on 12/18/2015 5:48:56 AM PST by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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19 posted on 12/18/2015 5:49:45 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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To: Liz

It’s yet more comfirmation that policy is very tightly developed, controlled and managed from the White House (the National Security Advisor could otherwise be called a policy czar) with the Departments left to just implement, and to do so under severe oversight.

I’ve felt from the start that Obama’s emphasis on the policy czars was just a way of masking the radicalism being developed for implementation through the departments. Think Van Jones, for instance.

They’ve effectively blurred the lines between policy advice and development. Should be subject to Senate confirmation and Congressional oversight.


20 posted on 12/18/2015 5:53:07 AM PST by tanknetter
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