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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Sun Mar 3, 2013, 11:59 PM Mar 2013

Chuck Hagel Speaks The Truth, And That's Why People Hate Him

The shortest distance between two points is truth, and Chuck Hagel speaks it. That's the primary reason people hate him.

Hagel definitely spoke truth in his recent speech about budgets, but lets start with the main sticking point: Israel.

This particular gem is a perfect example: "I'm a U.S. Senator, not an Israeli Senator."
That's a pretty straightforward statement, yet the torrent of furor it and others caused was cataclysmic. Throughout Hagel's nomination process, pundits and politicos fired off accusations of Anti-Semitism as if they were Marines trying to get rid of extra ammunition.

If only they would listen to what some Israeli officials say, maybe they'd think again.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chuck-hagel-speaks-truth-why-people-hate-2013-3#ixzz2MXY8nChN

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Chuck Hagel Speaks The Truth, And That's Why People Hate Him (Original Post) Purveyor Mar 2013 OP

Can't speak for "people", but this "people" pipoman Mar 2013 #1

Nope, never a RINO--for better or worse, he was the quintessential Reagan-worshipping TwilightGardener Mar 2013 #4

He will probably do a very good as secretary of defense, he was an enlisted man and has walked Thinkingabout Mar 2013 #2

This is a brutal quote. R. Daneel Olivaw Mar 2013 #3

pipoman

(16,038 posts)

1. Can't speak for "people", but this "people"

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2013, 12:22 AM

Mar 2013

dislikes Hagel for the same reason I dislike all RINOs and DINOs..because they are usually opportunistic posers.

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)

4. Nope, never a RINO--for better or worse, he was the quintessential Reagan-worshipping

Reply to pipoman (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 4, 2013, 01:03 AM

Mar 2013

business-loving fiscal conservative (he used to be my Senator). Now he is a throwback (like Bob Dole or Dick Lugar), not a comfortable fit with neocons or the religious right who run the party now. It's funny, actually, to see the insane FrankenRepubs of today call him and other old GOPers like him a RINO--no one in Nebraska called him that until at least midway through his second term, and that was because of Iraq. Jon Huntsman, on the other hand, is an opportunistic RINO.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

2. He will probably do a very good as secretary of defense, he was an enlisted man and has walked

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2013, 12:29 AM

Mar 2013

The walk. This will be the first enlisted SOD, let's give an opportunity.

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)

3. This is a brutal quote.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2013, 12:32 AM

Mar 2013

The IDF is "a brutal occupation force, not unlike the Germans in WWII"
— Avraham Shalom, Shin Bet director, 1980-1986.

Jeez, had Hagel said that alone he would never have been confirmed.

British MP David Ward made a comment relatively mute with regard to I/P and there were practically screams for his head over that.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=33467

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