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Senate Committee Votes to Confirm Hagel
NBC ^ | 12 Feb 13 | NBC

Posted on 02/12/2013 12:09:30 PM PST by xzins

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81 posted on 02/12/2013 6:02:19 PM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: Tugo
All Obama nominees are severely flawed. ESPECIALLY Hagel.

I fail to see how Chuck Hagel is any worse than Hillary Clinton or John Kerry, both of whom were confirmed without so much as a peep of protest.

Chuck Hagel obviously isn't anybody's ideal choice, but the bottom line is that nobody Obama selects for any cabinet post is going to be. So why is there so much opposition to Hagel when people who are worse than him on many issues breezed right through?

His opponents should be consistent. Either fight all of Obama's appointments tooth and nail, or, if you let somebody like Hillary through, call it a foregone conclusion and let them all through. Otherwise, it looks as though Hagel's GOP opponents are acting on a personal grudge instead of on principle.

82 posted on 02/12/2013 6:50:10 PM PST by ek_hornbeck
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1997 : (AL AMOUDI-CONTROLLED ROCK CREEK CO IS CHAIRED BY ELIAS ABURDENE {See MCCAIN}, WHO HIRES JOE WILSON, THE FORMER ADVISOR TO BILL CLINTON ON AFRICAN AFFAIRS ---- see HAGEL) ...but also the Rock Creek Corporation* , an investment company controlled by Al Amoudi and chaired since 1997 by a Lebanese businessman very connected into the power circles of Washington, Elias Aburdene. Former adviser of the Franklin Bank National in Washington DC, Aburdene at the start of his accession to the head (position) of Rock Creek Corporation hired the ex - adviser to Bill Clinton for African affairs, Joseph Wilson IV. The latter had already met Mohamed Al Amoudi in 1997 at the time of a reception organized for the World Bank by Westar Group (LAW n.794). --- via Shermy
83 posted on 02/12/2013 9:18:00 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Eva; Travis McGee; Shermy; Fedora; Cindy

What I remember is that Aburdene is a campaign contributor to Hagel through one of his PACs. But if you look further, you will see that Hagel has been part of a bunch of commissions to all parts of the world, and oddly enough the name Aburdene pops up among the other members of the commission. It is my guess that these are all members of the same family.
101 posted on 07/15/2005 6:27:30 PM PDT by Eva | To 98

That old post reminded me of the Lebanese woman involved as the “socialite” character in the exposure of Gen. David Petreaus to draw heat off of the Benghazi abandonment scandal. She was from some notable big family in Lebanon. And she also had ties to Obama’s other new nominee for Sec of State John Kerry....

which brings to mind this administration’s habitual arms smuggling ...and this bit from Hagel’s past defending Iranian arms smuggling :

(ISRAEL CAPTURES THE IRANIAN VESSEL THE KARINNA A -— SEE HAGEL) There’s something very odd about Chuck Hagel. He’s been among a very small minority of Senators to vote against resolutions in support of Israel; and when the Israelis captured that Iranian vessel, the Karinna A., with arms destined for the Palestinians, he said immediately that we shouldn’t believe the Israelis, that they were just trying to stir things up against Iran.————72 posted on 01/11/2007 5:54:11 PM PST by BusterBear | To 6


84 posted on 02/12/2013 9:36:16 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Thanks, piasa.


85 posted on 02/12/2013 11:28:15 PM PST by Fedora
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Must be the other shoe dropped — they got a look at whomever was next on the list.

Thanks xzins.


86 posted on 02/13/2013 4:26:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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87 posted on 02/13/2013 4:27:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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88 posted on 02/13/2013 5:50:19 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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89 posted on 02/13/2013 5:50:45 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: Tugo

“All Obama nominees are severely flawed. ESPECIALLY Hagel.”

owebama doesn’t want anyone in his cabinet who will outshine him. He is the most flawed pResident in history so he’s got to come up with losers like hagel, brennan, kerry, etc. who are worse than he is. He really has to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find them.


90 posted on 02/13/2013 6:20:07 AM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: AtlasStalled

As did Soros....and started to build his multi-billion dollar “trust”.

Why is this man still alive?


91 posted on 02/13/2013 7:25:05 AM PST by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: 43north
Good point, our brillant POTUS!

Hagel = Bumbling Moron

Brennan = Stealth Moslem Brotherhood Activist

Kerry = Arrogant traitor & liar

All political pawns thoroughly compromised and totally unprincipled.

EX: Justice Roberts stated he adopted a pair of babys ten years ago from "Latin America" in his hearings. These Blond, blue-eyed babys have recently been reported as "IRISH born". Irish law allows for only Irish nationals to adopt Irish born children. If Roberts indeed engaged in human trafficking, Obama owns him too. Saul Alinsky Chicago politic 101.

92 posted on 02/13/2013 7:29:47 AM PST by Tugo (357SIG)
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To: 43north
Good point, our brillant POTUS!

Hagel = Bumbling Moron

Brennan = Stealth Moslem Brotherhood Activist

Kerry = Arrogant traitor & liar

All political pawns thoroughly compromised and totally unprincipled.

EX: Justice Roberts stated he adopted a pair of babys ten years ago from "Latin America" in his hearings. These Blond, blue-eyed babys have recently been reported as "IRISH born". Irish law allows for only Irish nationals to adopt Irish born children. If Roberts indeed engaged in human trafficking, Obama owns him too. Saul Alinsky Chicago politic 101.

93 posted on 02/13/2013 7:33:58 AM PST by Tugo (357SIG)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
He could nominate a horse and it’d be confirmed

Well since they're all a bunch of Horses A$$es, I think I'd have to agree and the proof is in that pudding!

94 posted on 02/13/2013 1:18:34 PM PST by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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