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Hagel Said to Be Stepping Down as Defense Chief Under Pressure
nytimes.com ^ | November 24, 2014 | Helene Cooper

Posted on 11/24/2014 6:26:14 AM PST by ilovesarah2012

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down under pressure, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama’s Democratic majority in the Senate and a beleaguered national security team that has struggled to stay ahead of an onslaught of global crises.

The president, who is expected to announce Mr. Hagel’s resignation in a Rose Garden appearance on Monday, made the decision to ask his defense secretary — the sole Republican on his national security team — to step down last Friday after a series of meetings over the past two weeks, senior administration officials said.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chuckhagel; defense; dod; hagel; obama
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To: Moonman62
Hegel only wanted up to 30% Gays in the Military while Rice & Obama want 100%. That way, US forces would toss hand grenades at ISIS in an underhand, softball trajectory...
41 posted on 11/24/2014 6:56:14 AM PST by Netz
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To: Lazamataz

OK.


42 posted on 11/24/2014 6:56:25 AM PST by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

And was he ever sober?


43 posted on 11/24/2014 6:57:09 AM PST by onedoug
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To: txhurl

Excellent. About damn time you accepted. Been asking for 10 years now.


44 posted on 11/24/2014 6:57:36 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: dan on the right

Additional possibilities include:

John Kerry
Valerie Jarret
Marie Harf
Samantha Power


45 posted on 11/24/2014 6:57:57 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: onedoug

Sobriety is optional in the ObamaNation.


46 posted on 11/24/2014 6:58:06 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

To be fair (and Hagel was my congress critter for years), he does love America.

Word is from back home that he fought Obama quite a bit on things, and was trying to adjust the remnants of the military to fight a more 3rd generation style of warfare.

Now he failed at that, which isn’t surprising, but I think he got canned because he was to “pro military”.


47 posted on 11/24/2014 6:58:40 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Obadiah

I agree. Relatively speaking, he is OK.


48 posted on 11/24/2014 6:59:46 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

That is quite a lede for the NYTimes.


49 posted on 11/24/2014 7:02:38 AM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Lazamataz

The way Jarrett chose Hagel’s successor is how quickly he jumped to fetch her a drink. She really did ‘mistake’ 3 & 4 birds at the WH as waiters and ask them for drinks.


50 posted on 11/24/2014 7:03:53 AM PST by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: txhurl

Don’t change the subject. When and where is the ceremony?


51 posted on 11/24/2014 7:06:26 AM PST by Lazamataz (Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
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To: ilovesarah2012

At the top of the list....Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, former officer with the Army’s 82nd Airborne
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Wow! Outstanding qualifications for Sec. of Defense. (/s). But, probably better qualifications than most of his Cabinet (and Czar) appointees of the last 6 years.


52 posted on 11/24/2014 7:07:30 AM PST by Din Maker (Is anyone considering Gov. Susana Martinez of NM as the possible GOP nominee in 2016?)
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To: Netz
That way, US forces would toss hand grenades at ISIS in an underhand, softball trajectory...

Or they would throw them like this:


53 posted on 11/24/2014 7:09:07 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: redgolum

It is probably Obama getting his people in places for when he makes his next move.


54 posted on 11/24/2014 7:15:21 AM PST by sport
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To: txhurl
Why can’t I wake up to the news one day that a coup d’ etat has happened in my sleep?

It could happen - but a Socialist coup!

55 posted on 11/24/2014 7:18:53 AM PST by KittyKares (.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

“He raised the ire of the White House .... directly contradicting the president....

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So for the next SecDef, they’re looking for an Obola butt-kisser ..... what could go wrong? [/sarc]


56 posted on 11/24/2014 7:19:10 AM PST by Qiviut ( One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns)
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To: Lazamataz

Pants Up No Looting


57 posted on 11/24/2014 7:23:22 AM PST by advertising guy ( Muslims, another white meat)
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To: Tzfat

He could partially redeem himself by quickly publishing a tell-all book. He knows where a lot of bodies are buried ...


58 posted on 11/24/2014 7:23:34 AM PST by Be Free (I believe in gun control. The more people that control their own guns, the safer we'll all be.)
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To: Be Free

Fox says the White Hut says make no mistake UpChuck was FIRED


59 posted on 11/24/2014 7:27:10 AM PST by advertising guy ( Muslims, another white meat)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Zero will find an even lesser qualified replacement in effort to hasten the further dismantling of our Republic.


60 posted on 11/24/2014 7:28:22 AM PST by Amish with an attitude
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