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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChuck 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
pipoman
(16,038 posts)dislikes Hagel for the same reason I dislike all RINOs and DINOs..because they are usually opportunistic posers.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)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)The walk. This will be the first enlisted SOD, let's give an opportunity.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)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.
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