Hagel Didn't Start the Fire

Townhall.com ^ | November 25, 2014 | Pat Buchanan

[dfwgator]

Hagel is an idiot if he thought it would have been any different.

[hawaiianninja]

Hagel didn't start the fire
It was always burnin'
Since Obama's churnin'

[CyberAnt]

The “give peace a chance” crowd .. just still don’t get it. There is NO peace .. and there won’t be as long as Obama is in office. It’s that simple.

The goal is to destroy as much as possible the wonderful country we used to live in. The other goal is to humiliate us around the world .. just to prove how awful we really are.

[hosepipe]

Call me for the STAMPEDE...

Heck.. the sheep MUST stampede at some point..
The wolves be getting pretty thick out there..

If not...... get used to the odor of lamb on the pot..

[marron]

With our invasion, we dethroned Saddam and destroyed his Sunni Baathist regime. And today the Islamic State, a barbaric offshoot of al-Qaida, controls Mosul, Anbar and the Sunni third of Iraq.

He left out a few steps in between.

[Vigilanteman]

The great triumphs of Reagan and Bush 41 were converting Russia into a partner, and presiding over the liberation of Eastern Europe and the dissolution of the old Soviet Union into 15 independent nations.

Yep. I actually remember a brief period in the early 1990s where the Russians actually liked and admired us. I actually did business with Russians at that time.

This goodwill begin being p*ssed away when Clinton started bombing the Serbs to support the Bosnian Muslims and it has been downhill ever since, particularly being accelerated when BO was being elected.

Are any of the a$$h0l3s who voted for him twice embarrassed yet?

[Verginius Rufus]

Pat Buchanan can't forgive George W. Bush for stealing the election away from himself in 2000. He would have handled Iraq and everything else so much better.

If Saddam Hussein had been left in place, we might not be worrying about when the Iranians would have the capability to lob a nuke in the direction of Tel Aviv, because Saddam Hussein might have done so already. I'm not sure what Buchanan's take on that would have been.

[Romulus]

The best reason for the US to eschew an ambitious foreign policy when not absolutely necessary, is that we’ve never been really good at it.

Good article by Pat.

[ClearCase_guy]

"Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
-- Patrick Henry

[SamuraiScot]

Admit it, Pat. W beat you because you seemed old, cranky, and a bit anti-Semitic, and he didn’t. I have often enjoyed seeing you on the Sunday shows. Not the same as running a country.

[Engedi]

Chuck was the scapegoat for Obama’s policies. I’m no fan of Chuck, but how dumb was he to accept the job and not realize it was a set-up and that he would end up with a knife in his back.

[Kaslin]

Pat Buchanan ran in 1992 as republican against George H.W.Bush and in 2000 against George W. Bush in the Reform party.He had no chance whatsoever as no third party candidate has and I wished people would stop wasting their votes when they vote for third party candidates

[zeestephen]

Hagel didn't start the fire?

Maybe, but he sure likes playing with matches.

He's anti-Israel.

He's a former GOP Senator who publicly called for a phased troop withdrawal from Iraq while hostilities were ongoing.

He opposed “The Surge” in Iraq, and joined with the Democrats in a prolonged attempt to stop it.

He was frequently mentioned as a Vice-Presidential nominee - for Obama! - and he said he would accept if it was offered.

[x]

Right. I’m sure glad Bush’s war ended evil in the Middle East.

[bert]

foolish statement

W never intended to end evil anywhere

[Kaslin]

Don’t forget he closed the national parks and especially the World War II memorial last year and the commissaries in the military posts in CONUS

[x]

That was what his speechwriter and his close advisor called their book. That kind of talk was going around at the time.

I was responding to the foolish statement that we needed the 2003 war to keep Saddam Hussein from nuking Israel.

[blackdog]

Something over the Hagel thing has caused something big.

Today, Chuck Schumer gave a speech saying Obamacare ie, The Affordable Care Act............Was a big mistake, and that while a few things in healthcare were needing fixing, the people did not need this mess. I could not believe my ears. I mean he torpedoed the Obamacare bill and Obama with a direct hit broadside. The more senior senate democrats love Hagel. He is one of them more or less. I think a war has been declared on Obama's administration on many fronts now. When we can't even keep a secretary of defense on staff as long as Obama keeps a pair of golf shoes on his feet, something is very wrong.

The Rhodes, Rice, Jarrett, triad of treasonous incompetence is spilling over.

[blackdog]

Hillary was very wise to get out when she did. She knows how bad this bunch is. And that’s the pot calling the kettle............well, that would be racist.