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 âred lineâ 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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why not?
why subject America to any risk at all?
doo gooders like your self are the ruin of America
As said, Lay down with dogs and you get fleas. Consort with trash and you get filthy.
Despite how his Pentagon stint ended, Hagel said he still holds Obama âin high regard.â
Stupid of Hagel. I don’t have any friends like that.
As ‘enemy combatants’ captured in the field they are under military jurisdiction.
Once on US soil in prison it is argued by Golf-1’s DOJ they become subject to civil laws.
This has been discussed many times here since the begining of the current regime.
Why don’t you know all this?
Yeah, but he thinks it was worth it because he got to bash Tea Partiers as stupid rubes who don’t know anything.
You got what you deserved, RINO.
Serves the loser right. What did he expect from King Barry and ValJar?
Nobody trusts a traitor.
Naive imbecile.
He was nothing more than a sheltered schoolgirl swimming with the sharks.
...and hand all of Syria over to ISIS as a result.
That’s what you get when you allow yourself to be used for propaganda purposes (e.g. See... we are bi-partisan).
He will give the entire United States to Cuba, Mexico, and the muslims. And the usual attaboys ,along will how brilliant he is, will follow non stop from the media for eons.
The whole interview by Hagel shows exactly what a whiny, weak, pathetic SECDEF he really was. Considering that SECDEF is a constitutional cabinet office and in the direct chain of command, Hagel's proper response to situations such as this one should have been , "I'm sorry, Mr. President, but I'm here to see you privately and not talk to these other people. If we cannot do that then, you'll have my resignation on your desk by COB today."
But he didn't, and never did, instead letting an unelected hack like Susan Rice, who has no authority within the Chain of Command, walk all over him.
What a loser.
He isn’t called Hagel The Bagel for nothing.
What a crap link. Needs a warning flag. Would like to have read the thing in whole.
I suspect the U.N. report simply because they cannot be trusted on or about anything. They have supported both armed factions of the Palis in the past. Both Hezbollah and Hamas.
While I question the report about the FSA..it is not because I don't believe some treasonous bastards in both parties in this country aren't capable of thinking up a plan like this...It is I don't think the FSA could properly light a firecracker.
:-)
Lie down with goats; wake up with kids.
TRUE, Liz, and a point underplayed by the sycophant socialist/Marxist media.
An investigation of the Obama’s Clinton-styled “pay to play” operation will turn into a big story after the Muslim president is returned to wherever, as a citizen.
He should start a fag traitor party. The guy is scum of the earth, he has trashed every single decent Conservative I like
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