Seeing in print in the @WSJ this list of Republican national security officials endorsing Biden is really something. This is basically every GOP luminary of the last 30 years ....

Garrett M Graff, Aspen CyberSecurity ^ | Aug 21 2020 | Garrett M. Graff, Aspen CyberSecurity

[octex]

Agree. ...When Bush 41 stopped the first Gulf War, I was really mad. ....Then Bush 43 did the same thing at the urging of that ass Colin Powell and I was pissed.

In both cases, the US could have wiped out the terrorist Muslim organizations and their leaders.

But no! The Bushes wanted to “help” those areas turn into democracies, instead of wiping out the roots of terrorism.

How many trillions of $$ and American lives have been lost in AFG because of the globalist Bushes?

[Donnafrflorida]

don’t we all

[Sans-Culotte]

I used to be a ‘rat voter. Voted for Mondale, Dukakis and Clinton. 2 years after voting Clinton, I had become an arch-conservative.

[PerConPat]

It’s just my opinion, but I wonder whether he is under deep state blackmail for some dark secret.

Could be...Any way you look at it, his politics was all over the map. He was comfortable being Obama's SECDEF. Hagel has a couple of purple hearts, IIRC. And, for whatever reason, he squandered what could have been a bright future in conservative politics.