Posted on 11/24/2014 11:17:10 AM PST by C19fan
Senator Chuck Hagel, America’s defense secretary, was today chosen as President Obama’s sacrificial human Thanksgiving turkey. As we disseminate that shock decision, it’s important to remember the kind of man Senator Hagel is and what qualified him for the job. Hagel served on the ground in the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia throughout 1968, the worst year of the war in which nearly 17,000 Americans died. On March 28, 1968, Hagel and his brother Tom were crossing a stream when a mine exploded. It killed a number of men. Tom Hagel looked back and saw Chuck lying on the ground, blood pumping from his chest. ‘Every heartbeat it would squirt out,’ he recently recalled in an interview with Politico.
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I wonder what exactly Chuck did to piss off Valerie.
Well, I doubt if he outsmarted her.......
I wonder what exactly Chuck did to piss off Valerie.
He actually got serious about destroying ISIS
Hagel was a decorated veteran of a war AGAINST Communism.
Either that or said something Pro-American.
Pray America is waking
Hagel was the first combat vet to be the U.S. defense chief.
That’s what a person gets when they return a call from Barack.
He is not a female.
Hagel came out stupid from the war.
FTA: obama may think he’s bought himself more time by chucking Hagel on the Thanksgiving barbecue.
But all he’s really done is remind us once again that he himself is hopelessly weak on foreign policy, and utterly ruthless when it comes to blaming someone else for his own faults.
I know of a few who served in the military like Rumsfeld and George Marshall, but neither of those served in combat. Who else did?
..........well, for Chuck’s remaining years on this marble floating through space he can brag to his grand children that The Traitor fired him cuz he refused to go along and play games with him.......!!! He’s better off today than he was yesterday.
..........well, for Chuck’s remaining years on this marble floating through space he can brag to his grand children that The Traitor fired him cuz he refused to go along and play games with him.......!!! He’s better off today than he was yesterday.
It's a long list that begins with the very first one - Benjamin Lincoln.
It must have been pretty good, the Black N White Hut is still "swarming" over this and media can't crap fast enough for them.
The first Secretary of Defense was James Forrestal in 1947. Before that we had Secretaries of War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Secretaries_of_Defense_by_time_in_office
Distinction without a difference.
The truly amusing thing is that until the end of WWII, we had a Defense Department (a small standing military charged mainly with territorial defense) that we called a War Department. Now we have a War Department ( a huge standing military capable of large-scale expeditionary wars without a draft) that we call a Defense Department.
If I were in charge I’d change it to “The Killing the Enemy and Breaking Their Things Department”, but that’s just me.
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