[pissant]

She's been a blathering Dingbat for the last several years. Must be the Prozac.

[rlmorel]

[SpringheelJack]

Talk about phoning it in. 60% of her column is a direct quote from Hagel's speech.

[jwalsh07]

Hagel exhibited no courage in supporting this unefroceable bs. None, nada, zip. Hagel would exhibit courage if he voted against General Petraeus, if he voted to withdraw all funding and bring the troops home but it takes no courage to vote for non binding resolutions. Voting for non binding resolutions that demoralize the troops, condemn the CIC for reinforcing those same troops and then being showered with accolades for courage is laughable.

And just where the hell was Chuck and the rest of Congress when we were sent packing in Mogadishu? When the USS Cole was bombed? When our embassies were blown up? And finally where was the courage to declare war on bin Laden and Al Qaeda when they made it official and declared war on us in 1998?

[Suzy Quzy]

She must be dating Bill Clinton!!

[keepitreal]

Yep Chuck Hagel and real profile in courage/sarc.

Peggy Noonan thinks she's the smartest girl in the room and I'm sure is impressed with her intellectual heft in picking Chuck Hagel as the bravest man in DC.

[neverhillorat]

Peggy got it wrong, the resolutions were not about the President or the conduct of the War. Instead, its a direct message to the killers and terrorist in Iraq and elsewhere. What it says quite clearly is that victory is at hand, don`t stop now, just keep killing a few more American everyday and we, along with our allies in the MSM, will have the US Troops out of there by fall. Oh, that`s not what it says, well, maybe not, but guarantee you that`s how it was heard in Iraq and Iran.

[Irish Rose]

I thought she did that a couple articles ago, when she put down President Bush's policy change in Iraq, wondering why did he ignore the salvation offered by the ISG? I have considered Peggy Noonan a wonderful writer for years, but her thinking on Iraq has become very skewed.

[Paige]

Noonan has been riding along with the Buchanan types for a while now. There was a time, I enjoyed her writings but the last two years or so she has gone out of her way to bash the President.

I've been finished with her for quite some time now.

[Eva]

I don't read anything that Peggy Noonan writes anymore. She has had her nowe in a snit ever since Bush turned down her offer to write his speeches for the 2004 election. Can you even imagine Bush talking in the wordy, flowery style of Peggy Noonan? He would have been a bigger joke than Al Gore in his brown suits. Peggy may as well move over to the left if she thinks that Granny knows best.

[RichInOC]

This is what he said: Congress has duties; in the case of the war, meeting those duties was not convenient; Congress did not meet them.

I think it's more to the point to say that Congress made the right decision in 2002; keeping faith with that decision became inconvenient; Congress is now trying to find a way out.

[Eagles6]

Et tu, Brute?

[hatfieldmccoy]

Okay we had Hanoi Jane--now we have Tehran Chuck.. how about some sly Photoshoppers help here :)

[PGalt]

If Hagel and the rest of the punks had "guts" they wouldn't be making a non-binding resolution. They are gutless. Peggy is clueless.

[billbears]

(Peggy Noonan finally jumps the shark!)

Yes because we all know definition of jumping the shark is criticizing the President or anything that comes from his mouth. Good on Chuck Hagel for standing up for what he believes and any other Republican who finally discovers the reason for the Legislative Branch's existence is not a rubber stamp of anything the Executive Branch wants to do.

One can only hope the past 3 years is the death knell of the neoconservative movement and interventionist foreign policies. From the speeches coming even from original Congressional supporters of the police action in Iraq, it looks like it very well may be.

[onyx]

Maybe she's auditioning for a gig on PMSNBC.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Not

[F-117A]

The Armed Forces Committee endorsed General Petraeus 25-0. Then, backstabber Hagel undercuts the General's plan!

During WWII, A certain German Corporal though he knew more than his Generals. Now we have a German Sergeant that thinks he knows more than the commanding General!

Who do you support? General Petraeus or Senator Betraytus?

[BigSkyFreeper]

She jumped the shark the day President Bush was inaugurated a second term.

[pollyannaish]

If nothing else, this war as really separated the wheat from the tares.