About time!

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Obama's pick that the Republican's ramrod'ed through. A complete failure for both parties.

Get used to endless war....I mean you'se other countries. We are coming for ya.

Just watch, Obama's gonna try to nominate LJ Matthew as the next defense secretary, just wait and see.

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Ramrod'ed through? Do you know what that term means?

He only received 58 yes votes and his initial vote for confirmation was filibustered.

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> Just watch, Obama's gonna try to nominate LJ
> Matthew as the next defense secretary, just wait
> and see.


If I had a son, he'd look like LJ.

Hagel is a hero that doesn't want to sacrifice American blood.

Republican chicken hawk cowards demand blood. Hagels gotta go.

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You're right...I stand corrected. I remember the debate now and found it strange that the right was filibustering a Republican nominee (I knew very little about Hagel at the time).

I'm a little groggy this morning...sorry for the topic trash.

Fighting the State Deparment and CIA's war. That's why the US and its allies recruited mercenaries to fight Assad's government.

Here's where the CIA is vetting fighters to join the rebels.

Hagel was not qualified for the job.

Good riddence

The hawks have always hated it. He was picked to oversee a wind down of the military operations, but the regime destabilization operations have been so wildly proliferating over the last three years. The military is tapped to clean up the mess when the State Department, CIA, and Special Forces are just not enough.

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He was a highly decorated war hero who served his country, and served on the Intel & Foreign relations committees as a Republican senator. How is that not qualified?

Answer: he's not a dumbass teabagger. Next!

When contacted for comment Mr. Hagel said "I couldn't take it anymore. Obama's a big pussy who can't make decisions and that dumb bitch Jarrett wants to review and approve every fucking bombing run."

They need to hire chickenhawk Peter King. He has plenty of quals. No military service. Supported the Irish terrorist group IRA.



He advocates war for the average man, because that's what he am. An average chickenhawk.

Departing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel may have sealed his exit in this interview with Charlie Rose last week. Rose conducted the interview at the Pentagon.

In the interview, Hagel made two key points that serve as accusations that President Barack Obama is mismanaging the United States military and the ISIS threat.

Rose asked Hagel to elaborate on comments that he made in a speech at the Reagan Library last weekend. In that speech, Hagel said that America’s military capability, while still the best in the world, is being threatened.

Hagel re-iterated that to Rose, but also left viewers to wonder about the direction that President Obama is taking the military.

“I am worried about it, I am concerned about it, Chairman Dempsey is, the chiefs are, every leader of this institution,” Hagel said, including Pentagon leadership but leaving both President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden’s names out of his list of officials who are worried about the U.S. military’s declining capability. Hagel said that the Congress and the American people need to know what while the U.S. military remains the strongest, best trained and most motivated in the world, its lead is being threatened because of policies being implemented now.

Hagel went on to note that a good leader prepares their institution for future success, saying that “the main responsibility of any leader is to prepare your institution for the future. If you don’t do that, you’ve failed. I don’t care how good you are, how smart you are, any part of your job. If you don’t prepare your institution, you’ve failed.”

In the past couple of years, Hagel has warned that defense budget cuts implemented under President Obama were hurting readiness and capability. The “how smart you are” line may be a veiled shot at President Obama, who basks in a media image that he is a cerebral, professorial president.

In the same interview, Hagel also commented on the rise of ISIS and how it must be fought. Hagel charged that Obama’s handling of the ISIS threat is now indirectly assisting Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

While President Obama has downplayed the ISIS threat, even calling the group “jayvee” as it rose to power, Hagel warned last week that it is a threat unlike any other we have ever faced.

“We’ve never seen an organization like ISIL that is so well-organized, so well-trained, so well-funded, so strategic, so brutal, so completely ruthless,” Hagel said. “We have never seen anything quite like that in one institution.

“And then they blend in ideology — which will eventually lose, we get that — and social media. The sophistication of their social media program is something that we’ve never seen before. You blend all of that together, that is an incredibly powerful new threat.”

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> They need to hire chickenhawk Peter King. He has
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The Army National Guard is considered military service.

On Monday, the New York Times conducted a scathing post-mortem of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s resignation, pointing out that Hagel’s feeble attempt to employ tough language against the Islamic State in August clashed with the Obama administration’s ‘JV team’ rhetoric from January:

"He raised the ire of the White House in August as the administration was ramping up its strategy to fight the Islamic State, directly contradicting the president, who months before had likened the Sunni militant group to a junior varsity basketball squad. Mr. Hagel, facing reporters in his now-familiar role next to General Dempsey, called the Islamic State an “imminent threat to every interest we have,” adding, “This is beyond anything that we’ve seen.” White House officials later said they viewed those comments as unhelpful, although the administration still appears to be struggling to define just how large is the threat posed by the Islamic State."

Put in Dave Petraeus. He'd be excellent for the job. I won't excuse the extramarital fling he had and being unfaithful to his wife, but he clearly knows what he is doing with the military.

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> Put in Dave Petraeus. He'd be excellent for the
> job. I won't excuse the extramarital fling he had
> and being unfaithful to his wife, but he clearly
> knows what he is doing with the military.

Petraeus hasn't been out of uniform long enough to be eligible for the job.