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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FU Hagel! This slimy piece of shit couldn’t say one good thing about GWB for years. He and the turd Senator from Arizona did everything they could to make GWB look bad. Meanwhile, 7 years into the worst Presidency EVER, these morons have hardly said one negative thing about Obama.
Just SHUT UP already and go away.
Barry stood down.
BUMP
Why is it fairly common for a democratic president to choose republicans in the defense dept? Is it to take the guy off of the Senate and expose that seat for the democrats?
THANK you, very much.
BFL
How could he go through his entire life in the jobs he's filled and be such a p!ss-poor judge of people?
susan rice is a piece of @#@$ and that’s an insult to @#$@$3
Bagel: The White House Tried to âDestroyâ Me:
This story lends credence to the unavoidable conclusion that Obama is a skirt, and is overwhelmed and poorly served by more skirts! These broads are run amok with power and still fail to wonder why the world is on fire.
why do we want that prison in Cuba.....So that bunch of offal never sets foot on a space of (once) free land?
“We had never come down on an answer or a conclusion in the White House,” Hagel told FP. “I said what I felt what I had to say. I couldn’t say, “No. Christ every ally would have walked away from us in the Middle East.”
And that is exactly what is wrong with Washington, DC! No one has the guts to tell the TRUTH!!!
“What did he expect when he got in bed with Obama and company?”
Exactly!
And why didn’t he quit when he knew they were all lying!
The president & co president...
What would he do without Valerie Jarrett? I bet he couldn’t read a teleprompter without her.
and what is with all this bro' stuff. These people don't want to be your bro' and I don't blame 'em ...
I believe Obama is destroying America a purpose. Most things that look like failure are really his successes. His job as directed by Valerie Jarrett (one of those skirts) is to bring Marxism and Islam to America. He has been, I’m afraid, eminently successful and is not a failure. Rush Limbaugh, in 2008 after Obama’s first election hoped for the administration’s failure. Many in the MSM condemned Rush, but Rush was right...Obama’s failure would mean success for America.
Hopefully we can turn things around 180 degrees.
What did you expect, Fool?
Right on!
We have to win. TRUMP or Bust, that’s a given.
Don’t bother. More fecklessness from the ruling class scribblers.
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