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Report: Obama Has Picked Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary, Announcement Expected Monday

Jan. 6, 2013 9:34am Madeleine Morgenstern

President Barack Obama shakes hands with former Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska as Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki and first lady Michelle Obama look on during a Memorial Day ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, Monday, May 28, 2012, in Washington. (AP)

President Barack Obama has settled on nominating former Sen. Chuck Hagel for secretary of defense and is expected to announce his decision on Monday, according to Politico.

Hagel has been widely presumed to be Obama’s pick to replace outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, with multiple reports just days ago indicating the announcement would be sometime this week.

The Vietnam War veteran — who served as a Republican senator for Nebraska from 1997 to 2009 — was openly critical of the Iraq War and made an eyebrow-raising comment about not being intimidated by the “Jewish lobby.” He also referred to an ambassadorial nominee during the Clinton administration as “openly, aggressively gay,” a remark he apologized for in December. Obama has defended Hagel’s tenure in the Senate.

From Politico:

A Democratic aide described the White House’s logic for choosing Hagel, age 66: “Chuck Hagel is a decorated war hero who would be the first enlisted soldier and Vietnam veteran to go on to serve as Secretary of Defense. He had the courage to break with his party during the Iraq War, and would help bring the war in Afghanistan to an end while building the military we need for the future.

“He has been a champion for troops, veterans and military families through his service at the VA and USO, and his leadership on behalf of the post-9/11 G.I. Bill. The President knows him well, has travelled with him to Iraq and Afghanistan, trusts him, and believes he represents the proud tradition of a strong, bipartisan foreign policy in the United States.”

Obama’s announcement is expected Monday as his first public appearance after returning from his holiday vacation with his family in Hawaii.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:28pm
“He had the courage to break with his party during the Iraq War” Fact: Broke with Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Clinton, more Demcorats than “Broke with Republicans. Democrats were by far the loudest of this “demanding” for war. WATCH IT – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwqh4wQPoQk

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- dissentnow
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:45pm
  Both parties supported the war and BOTH parties are hypocrites.
  
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- Ditto Head
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 1:24pm
  What?
  Has Pinheadda finished gutting the military already?
  That was quick.
  
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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 2:22pm
  dissent.. Republicans stood by the troops and the mission. The Dems are doing the exact same thing again. Meddling in the middle East backing tyrants. The Dems will again point and blame Republicans for hat they are doing now. The big oddity is that those that obama is installing (Using our military as a rental) are already telling their people that America is responsible for their new found plight (installing THEM, who the people generally hate).
  
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- jakartaman
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 2:30pm
  Lets see – WE are going to have a lying creep that called his fellow soldiers killers and sided and defended Hanoi Jane -Learch (Kerry) as SOS
  
  And now he wants Hagel to head the DOD – Wow
  I hope all you Obama voting dopes and union whores are happy!
  
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- MONICNE
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 2:52pm
  Let’s appoint Representative Eric Cantor (Marshall, VA). Eric is a “young gun” Tea Party man who has close ties to pentagon and military bases, federal employees, defense contractors and our intelligence community.
  
  He is fully endorsed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and the American Zionist Council. AIPAC’s official position on Iran is to encourage a strong diplomatic and economic response with “crippling” sanctions against Iran coordinated among the United States government, its European allies, Russia, and China.
  
  Cantor is also fully endorsed by Dick and Lynn Cheney, William Kristol, John Bolton, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, and important entertainers like Levin, O’Reilly, Limbaugh, and Hannity.
  
  Eric Cantor would be absolutely devoted to Israel first, and would not flinch at the thought of turning Iran into a thick sheet of glass in the desert, no matter what the cost to our deficit or the sacrifices of our brave all volunteer military, reserves, national guard, retirees and stop losses.
  
  Most Republicans should take a really close look at clear-eyed Israel Hawk Mr. Cantor. He is in Top Leadership. Unlike speaker Boehner, he is a Tea Party friend of Sarah & Todd Palin, Louie Gohmert and Heritage Institute President, Senator Jim DeMint.
  
  TEA – best thing in the GOP
  
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- dissentnow
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 2:59pm
  “Republicans stood by the troops and the mission”
  
  No. The useful idiots stood by and supported the war while the politicians in Washington ( BOTH republicans and democrats ) used 9/11 as a means to push their radical nanny-state domestic policy agenda on the American people ( talk about never letting a crisis go to waste. 9/11 was the ultimate crisis and the republicans and the democrats wasted no time in shoving the patriot act and domestic spy programs down our throats ). The American people were the useful idiots because they were willing to give up all of their freedoms and run to the federal government for protection. It was cowardly and stupid. Now all of those unconstitutional powers that you all willingly gave to president Bush have transfered to president Obama and he has taken the Bush big government ball and ran with it. Thanks to all of you, we now have the NDAA, drones over OUR skies, even stronger domestic spy programs, and on top of all of that, Obama now wants our guns.
  I hope that future generations will look back and realize what cowards the American people were after 9/11.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 3:50pm
  Enci-diot/monicene
  I agree whole heartedly. Cantor rocks.
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 6:17pm
  That’s not how you spell Gandhi.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 8:14pm
  “Eric Cantor would be absolutely devoted to Israel first… .”
  
  Therein is the problem here in America. Too many Israel-first traitors. Cantor just happens to be the only Jewish, Republican, Israel-firster.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_politicians
  
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cdn1979
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:13pm
why is everyone here debating if this is the right choice for israel? how about, “is this the right choice for america?” it sickens me to see a foreign country controlling the decisions of the USA. open your eyes you fools. You send billions of hard earned tax dollars to this country and never get anything in return. you get the pleasure of entering pointless wars on their behalf and never get anything in return. how about american’s for america? how about USA first. others second. Don’t complain about wasteful tax spending anymore. think for yourselves. put your country first. don’t be a puppet.

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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:30pm
  Uhmm– Maybe because Islam is the only thing (not Israel) in the way of World Peace? Think about it.
  Those that want to destroy Israel are those that want to destroy everything. That makes Israel a strategic ally of the first order. Coincidentally – Obama sides with the Islamic coalitionist.
  
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raderby
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:13pm
no, no, and double NO to this creep for that job, or any job. Wise up!! ANYONE our dear leader puts up for a job should be held in extreme doubt.

PERIOD. no way, no flapping way.

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- db321
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 4:03pm
  When the Islamist and Chief opens his mouth I have doubt.
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:54am
Maybe JESUS WILL COME BACK between now and the 20th of this month????

We CAN PRAY so.

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capelady
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:47am
In his arrogance, Obama is going ahead with this nomination despite the massive opposition that has been voiced from many different quarters! Well, I hope the GOP has the sense to block this nomination because this would be a disaster for our military and for Israel. And even the gay community doesn’t want this man in office! Obama’s hubris is beyond measure.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:53am
  you would rather have John Kerry?
  
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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 2:25pm
  It’s not hubris. Obama is a puppet. He wants to blame a “republican” for the mess he is creating. Mark those words. A few years from now they will point to Hagel as if he (as a Republican) was there when it all went down. Scapegoat. It would be Hagel with the hubris, unable to see the setup.
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:31am
It is important to choose someone who has VAlues that supports The Bible, and the U. S. Conssitution; whether it be at the Presidential lever, or other!

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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:51am
  The only thing this guy has going for him is he isn’t manipulated by the “chosen people” in the US. He’s calling the powerful Judens out on their control of this country. Of course all the “useful idiots” on the Blaze will have a problem with him since he isn’t all for our nation being controlled by Judens.
- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:52am
  When was the last time republican party picked a national candidate that supports the Constitution?
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 3:39pm
  Silly Sally
  You seem very manipulated by the ones you hate, and fail to see it. That is almost funny aside from the sickness of it.
  
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Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:24am
“he represents the proud tradition of a strong, bipartisan foreign policy in the United States.”
Since when is it the responsibility of the defense secretary to set foreign policy?

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- WildschweinJager
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 1:16pm
  @Secret Squirrel
  
  Delegation of authority for later plausible deniability.
  
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GoodStuff
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:15am
Apparently, serving only one year in the military is all you need to be Sec Def,

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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:23am
  When the commander in chief doesn’t serve in the military, why should the defense secretary?
  
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- catty
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:25pm
  did you skim over the Vietanam veteran part?
  
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- qualityrkc
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 1:11pm
  Goodstuff, to our everlasting shame if Hagel were given the position it would be the first time an enlisted man held the position of defense secretary? Pretty unbelievable right? I had to double check when I first found out. This is America not Israel and I think we should support people like Chuck who are only concerned with our own best interests. He served his country valiantly and deserves respect.
  
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MONICNE
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:11am
Israel is totally dependent on the USA, and they resent that they are not in charge. So they apply lots of pressure on Congress with their lobbyists and Political Action Committees. They cannot stand the prospect that the pentagon might require logical rationale and diplomacy before providing support.

Senator Hagel is a thinking man the way Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan were. None of these distinguished leaders were considered anti-Semite, yet all three openly negotiated with the Israelis to arrive at historical agreements that resulted in years of peace. Anytime the chips were down, we fully supported Israel. When war was necessary, they were always ready for war. But the USA saved untold Billions by not folding to every one of Israel’s extremely nationalist demands, and by making them compromise and act diplomatically to receive our support.

Hagel refuses to be pushed around, and some of our Congressional leadersheep can’t stand independent thinkers.

And, having an enlisted Veteran in charge, an Army ground pounder with combat wounds, is remarkable. Less than 3.0% of Americans serve in the military, and 0.5% of our citizens experience hand to hand combat to defend the freedoms of the 99.5%.

If outspoken Chuck Hagel does not accept, we can always nominate representative Eric Cantor of Marshall VA. Eric is a trusted Tea Party man with close ties to military, pentagon, Federal employees, Defense contractors and intelligence community.

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- barber2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:34am
  MON: Thanks for bringing us the latest up-date from the Obama White House. Gee, even when he’s off on one of those loooong distance vacations , you guys cover his water-front ! What lucky media tsunamied coverage our Chicago radicals have .
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:47am
  whatever happened to sovereignty and self reliance? We give Israel billions of dollars a year, why do we have to follow their foreign policy?
  
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- MONICNE
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 3:08pm
  BARB:
  
  I have seen Mr. Hagel (and many others) work quietly for the Nam Vets for decades, and since it started, for combatants of Afghanistan and Iraq (he and others did not want to repeat the way returning veterans were demeaned after Vietnam). So I personally think it would be a Veteran-Friendly choice. I also just prefer not seeing Americans kow-tow to even close Allies.
  
  Aside from that, I don’t have a dog in this fight. You choose someone else, I know I could.
  
  When you look at the available talent, Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor or Governor Bob McDonnell come to mind, if it is meant to be a Republican. Or Senator Mark Warner if it’s not. These guys really know their way around the Pentagon with connections in all the Federal/DoD, Military, and Contractor sectors, plus they represent sizable Naval, Air and Army installations and special commands throughout the state. No other state can claim it represents the Pentagon, but DC or Maryland might come close.
  
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AUsername
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:04am
hopefully he tears up overseas commitments and focus on the defense on this country like the border.

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- AUsername
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:16am
  hopefully he can stop the president from attacking Syria or Iran to appease Israel.
  
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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:16am
  I hope by not giving more guns to the cartel. To insure save passage of drugs to the white house.
  Or stopping the flow of radical Islamic through our borders to cabinet positions for this administration.
  
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nosharia
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:58am
Oh good. More disrespect for Israel.

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KidCharlemagne
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:38am
Hagel is absolutely right about Israel….

Israel didn’t even so much as dispatch a single soldier to fight in either Afghanistan or Iraq:

Afghanistan: International Security Assistance Force

Iraq: Multi-National Force

Why should we have to do all the fighting when Israel won’t even bother to help us?……

But they sure don’t mind taking our money, do they?…

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- January6
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:52am
  Hagel is as big an anti-semite as Obama, that’s why he was picked. The reason Israel didn’t dispatch any soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq is because they have their hands full and their military tied up fighting the terroroist organizations that this President supports.
  
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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:06am
  Move to Israel idiot. They have their hands full just protecting their own citizens.
  Israel has never ask for any troops from any nation to their country and fight.
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:23am
  they don’t seem to be allies, they seem to be users of this country and the tax payers of it and we should not let them do that.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:30am
  DUBLIN: Kid is just one of our anti-Isreal, anti-military, anti-police, anti-war New Age Flower Children . Remember Chicago’s Bill Ayers ? He was one back in the radical 60s. These guys like Kid are just the new generation …probably love marijuana , OWS protests, and all of those old radical Flower deals… Bill is in Seventh Heaven with his good Chicago buddy Obama in the White House…makes getting ” almost punished ” ( Bill had a rich dad and a technicality to escape ! ) for his radical bomb-making days seem worthwhile !
  
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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:43am
  barber2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:30am
  
  DUBLIN: Kid is just one of our anti-Isreal, anti-military, anti-police, anti-war New Age Flower Children .
  ============================================
  
  Nope……
  
  I’m a big fan of America’s #1 President though:
  
  ———————
  “Excessive partiality for one foreign nation (i.e. Israel) and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate (i.e. Barber2) to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots (KidCharlemagne) who may resist the intrigues of the favorite (i.e. Israel) are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes (i.e. Barber2) usurp the applause and confidence of the people (i.e. American people), to surrender their interests.”
  -President George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
  
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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:59am
  dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:06am
  
  Move to Israel idiot. They have their hands full just protecting their own citizens.
  Israel has never ask for any troops from any nation to their country and fight.
  =======================================
  
  Yes….the scantily-clad women of Tel Aviv prominently displaying their winter fashion sense just screams of a nation constantly under siege (LOL):
  
  Jan. 6, 2013: “Tel Aviv women wear winter in style”
  
  The Mexican drug cartels are more of a threat to America than anyone is to Israel, but yet we find time to send thousands of our kids to places all around the world to get shot at…
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 3:49pm
  Kid
  Evidently the wrong kids stay home to foment useless discourse while other kids actually do the hard work. Welcome back from saving the world and getting shot at. What religion is most of the ME and what is the actual mission statement of those religions of peace that encircle the ruthless Jews of Israel? Take your time, wait until your next deployment is over. Really. Don’t pick flowers at the west bank while you are on tour either.
  
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- Meowmeowoofwoof
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 4:02pm
  Look dumbass, we are working with ” Muslims ” in those two countries to bring some sense of balance to those countries. When we took on Saddam Gulf War 1, hussein lobbed scuds into the civilian populations of Israels cities. We asked them ” not ” to retaliate. They did. Then they buried their dead. They are the middle easts’ only functioning democracy and the Arabs who live there seem to enjoy it. They have developed the patriot missile system when your patriotic democrat party reduced monies for development. Those systems are in Turkey right now keeping Muslim Turks and Muslim Syrians safe from the Muslim butcher, Assad. Now f@ck off liberal. Regards, :::::^^::::: Meowmeow
  
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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 6:51pm
  Meowmeowoofwoof
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 4:02pm
  
  Look dumbass, we are working with ” Muslims ” in those two countries to bring some sense of balance to those countries. When we took on Saddam Gulf War 1, hussein lobbed scuds into the civilian populations of Israels cities.
  ========================================
  
  Look Bow-Wow…..
  
  Saddam Hussein quickly realized that Israel was supplying the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran with the heavy weaponry needed for Iran to fight its war against Iraq from 1980 – 1988:
  
  ——————————-
  “Thus Operation Seashell, in which hundreds of tons of Israeli weapons were airlifted or shipped to Iran, was conceived. More would follow in what became known as the Iran-contra affair. “I don’t remember even one discussion about the ethics of the matter,” one key figure from the Israeli Defense Ministry is quoted as saying. “All that interested us was to sell, sell, sell.” No one in the security establishment claims to have foreseen then that post-revolution Iran was to become the main exporter of Islamic fundamentalism and a vital supplier of Israel’s front-line enemies with money, weapons, and know-how. According to Bergman, one of the Browning machine guns sold to Iran by Israel was used by Hizballah 25 years later to kill Israeli soldiers during the kidnapping of two troops on July 12, 2006.
  The Jerusalem Post: “Open Secrets”
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:27am
Of course. Just like obama, Hagel is a raging anti-Semite, a sworn enemy of Israel and an ultra-radical islam-panderer. And, just like obama, Hagel would like nothing more than to see the United States destroyed. It’s not surprising that obama would choose someone who is the mirror image of himself, to run his rogue Pentagon – but it will be surprising and VERY DANGEROUS for America if Hagel is confirmed.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:42am
  Can anyone post proof of how Hagel is “anti-semite”??? Or are people just repeating what someone else said?
  
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- Tri-ox
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:12am
  There are many problems with Hagel, and very real reasons why even many Jewish democrats in Congress oppose his nomination. Not only has Hagel been a long-time, out-spoken adversary of Israel, but, he has spoken about his fears of the powerful “Jewish lobby” (when referring to the pro-Israel lobby – this was red-flag to many Jews) which he believes holds too much sway on Capitol Hill. Hagel is Jewish, but, he has long been viewed by the Jewish community as a self-loathing Jew because of his bizarre support for, and from, islamic terrorist organizations and radical islamist governments around the world.
  
  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/30/hagels-foreign-policy-record-a-strike-against-chan/?page=all#pagebreak
  
  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/14/republican-senate-aide-calls-hagel-anti-semitic.html
  
  http://www.barenakedislam.com/2009/10/29/barack-hussein-obama-adds-another-israel-hating-pro-terrorist-supporter-to-his-anti-jew-crew/
  
  http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/12/17/islamic-terrorists-rejoice-at-the-prospect-of-obamas-likely-anti-israel-nominee-for-defense-secretary/
  
  http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/12/18/american-jews-70-who-voted-for-obama-twice-deserve-a-secretary-of-defense-like-chuck-hagel/
  
  http://patdollard.com/2013/01/obama-to-nominate-anti-military-anti-war-hagel-as-secretary-of-defense/
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:23am
  anyone who does not put loyalty of Israel ahead of America is anti semite according to the lobby and radical zionists.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:44am
  @Tri-ox
  I went to every one of the links you provided. I encourage you to read that dailybeast article.
  
  The pro-Israel lobby is indeed the strongest foreign lobby in Washington. That is a fact. We should resist all outside foreign interest groups – that is also a fact. His comments on the Israel lobby do not make him anti-Israel.
  
  You guys criticize democrats whenever they call someone ‘racist’ or whatever for speaking the truth….But when it comes to Israel, you do the same thing. Pointing out facts does not make someone anti-israel
  
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- tzion
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:03pm
  @Auser
  Hagel isn’t anti-Israel because he puts America before Israel; he’s anti-Israel because he puts the Palestinians before Israel.
  
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- Tri-ox
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 5:25pm
  @SOYBOMB315_II – Perhaps you do not understand that the “pro-Israel lobby” DOES NOT CONSIST solely of JEWS(?). When Hagel, a Jew himself, labels all of those who support Israel as “Jews”, he does so as an open, and obviously inaccurate, criticism.
  
  And, apparently you do not understand that there are two separate issues here – Hagel is anti-Semitic, as evidenced by his bizarre fear of a non-existent, malignant “Jewish lobby” on Capitol Hill, and, he is anti-Israel as evidenced by his long history of criticisms of Israel and his dangerous associations and praise of radical muslim governments and organizations whose focus is the destruction of Israel (and ultimately, all Jews worldwide).
  
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- qualityrkc
  Posted on January 7, 2013 at 3:22pm
  So Israel is the jewish state of Israel but the Israeli lobby is not a jewish lobby? Thats some mental gymnastics you are pullin there. You also forget that AIPAC isn’t the only lobby he was referring to. Is the anti defamation league a jewish lobby? How about the American jewish committee? Its anti semetic to refer to these groups as jewish lobbies? How do you figure?
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:23am
So now we will have a Defense Secretary that has a loathing of Israel to match that of Obama.

The question now to ask is how many more Benghazi arms-smuggling’s to terrorists will occur? How long until all aid is cut off to Israel? How long until Obama decides enough is enough and it becomes expedient to invade Israel in the name of “Palestinian freedom’?

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:43am
  “A Democratic aide described the White House’s logic for choosing Hagel, age 66: “Chuck Hagel is a decorated war hero who would be the first enlisted soldier and Vietnam veteran to go on to serve as Secretary of Defense. ”
  
  While I have the utmost respect for our vets and military it does not always mean they’re good guys.
  This was highly calculated. The “War Hero” label as a blankey to cover all transgressions is pathetic.
  
  In the LONG VIEW on of the main reasons this country is in so much trouble is that these folks are
  now cycling into the age group where they’re becoming the individuals who are in positions of power and leadership —– Read it and notice how it fits the Chocolate King perfectly
  
  How college students think they are more special than EVER: Study reveals rocketing sense of entitlement on U.S. campuses — Narcissism
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257715/Study-shows-college-students-think-theyre-special–read-write-barely-study.html
  
  “Twenge is the author of a separate study showing a 30 per cent increase towards narcissism in students since 1979. Our culture used to encourage modesty and humility and not bragging about yourself,’ Twenge told BBC News. ‘It was considered a bad thing to be seen as conceited or full of yourself. However, one in four recent students responded to a questionnaire called the Narcissistic Personality Inventory with results pointing towards narcissistic self-assessments.”
  
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ares338
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:19am
If Obama choose Jesus Christ for a cabinet position I would be against it. Agenda Destroy Amerika is in full swing. The rodeo has started…ride um OCowboy!

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- catty
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:31pm
  That is exactly why you are crazy. You would rather the country fail.
  
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noslave
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:19am
OBAMA USES THE BREIR RABBIT PSYCOLOGY?he distracts you away from the real issues?(debt ceiling,bengazi,fast &furious,trillions wasted so far,etc.)like rice,hagel is not his real choice?it just give him another whineing point?,those mean republicans keep blocking my choices??he’ll wind up with some more communist mutts,like those in the supreme court,etc.setting america up for a dictatorship??

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americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:04am
He was voted out for a reason. He was not an “R” he was a Democrat or a RHINO, you decide.

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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:17am
  He is a John Kerry without the long face.
  
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- TIMEBOMB
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:22am
  I will use ole Chuck like I’ve used everybody throughout my pampered life,I’m the affirmative action president and I’m transforming America right before your eyes.You’ll be a communist state quicker than you can say redistribution of wealth because all my policies are designed to destroy America and ole Chuck’s going to help me out. When I’m through with him I’ll get rid of him just like I did with General Petreaus.
  
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TJexcite
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:03am
It will be fun to see which side will dislike the pick more. Because His anti-Israel stance vs. his anti-gay stances. This pick puts a finger in the Eye of DADT and the Gays. Sure he could say he changed his mind but that would not work on the Israel stance. Would not it be the best irony if the newly confirmed Sen Dec Hagel puts out a memo in the Pentagon to relived of duty some people that would have been relived and kicked out under DADT but don’t call it that.

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americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:02am
Hagel will end up being the “PATSI”. Just wait and see, he will be taken down as a rogue Republican that would not follow orders. I can smell another Benghazi can you?

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- barber2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:21am
  Agree, I smell another Petraeus scandal. Obama is toxic. Obama is the Bus Driver of the Destroy America Express. Do not board….
  
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layosh
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:00am
Good choice! Excellent choice!
Use a republican to dismantle and cripple our military!
Nice, is it not?

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- barber2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:19am
  Pure radical. Pure Alinsky. Pure Luciferian. Pure evil. Oh, so radically clever….
  
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- 13Lena
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:35am
  Chuck Hagel is an anti Semitic buffoon, hates gays and the military.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:55am
I’m sure all Theblaze readers will protest this nomination but if you think about it, Obama could have done A LOT worse. Hagel does have some redeeming qualities when it comes to foreign policy…..

“They talk about America’s national interest. What the hell do you think they’re talking about? We’re not there for figs.” – Hagel in 2007
http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_costs_of_war_for_oil

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- barber2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:17am
  Stop : “Obama could have done A LOT worse.” Stop. I shudder to think what ” worse ” could be for America than the Obama Administration’s policies, regulations, media propaganda use, and goals.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:42am
  hey….Could have been Rachael Maddow
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:04am
  SOY: Everything Obama does is the “worst” for America. That is his goal ” to fundamentally change ( code : destroy ) America.”
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:50am
  you should be like the comic guy from Simpsons….
  
  “worst defense secretary Ever”
  
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:53am
Ole Chuck’s an Anti-Semite like me so he seems like a natural for my regime,hopefully with the combined efforts of my regime,my brothers in the MB and my friends at CAIR we’ll be able to come up with a final solution for the Israeli problem.

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- truthnstuff
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:03am
  LOL, you should get a show “Clarifying My Regime” similar to Jon Stewart or a comedy hour. The truth of absurdity is the best teacher. You might be able to reach the stupid left and enlighten them.
  
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- TIMEBOMB
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:15am
  Sounds like a great idea maybe I’ll start a podcast but for now I’ll continue exposing the gay Marxist atheist and his agenda for America on here.
  
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dissentnow
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:51am
“he represents the proud tradition of a strong, bipartisan foreign policy in the United States”

In other words, more endless undeclared wars. Just what our country needs!

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:02am
  actually i think Hagel indicates that he would pursue peace before war
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:14am
  SOY: And we know for certain that Iran also seeks a policy of ” peace before war.” We can tell just by the ravings of their Dear Leader and his peace-loving clerical friends.
  
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- dissentnow
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:27am
  Obama also promised peace……He then doubled the size of the war in Afghanistan ( which doubled troop deaths ), vastly increased the drone missile strikes which kills civilians, assassinated American citizens without due process, renewed the patriot act, signed the NDAA into law, waged war on federal whistleblowers, and ran guns into the Mexican drug cartels. Need i continue?
  
  Also, in the 2000 presidential election cycle, Bush ran on a platform that included a “humble” foreign policy. How’d that work out?
  People change. Our foreign policy doesn’t.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:06am
  DISSENT: Obama also promised that he ” wouldn’t go after your guns ! “
  
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- dissentnow
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:26am
  @Barber
  
  “Obama also promised that he ” wouldn’t go after your guns ! “
  
  Indeed. Obama is another globalist pawn doing the bidding of the UN by trying to take our guns, much like Feinstein, Romney, and the rest of the progressives that support gun bans.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:35am
  DISSENT: Let’s focus on Comrade Obama .
  
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- dissentnow
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 12:13pm
  They’re all globalists to me
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:45am
Hmmmm, anybody else think that there is a chance that Hagel has an alternate ego who posts here at The Blaze? We know him better as THE_JERK though.

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- Fubared
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 3:41pm
  Could be.
  
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:40am
Obama just picked about the most Anti-Israel guy in the U.S. Government for Defense Secretary??? Now you tell me….Is Obama a Muslim???

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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:44am
  Correction….Is Obama an Islamist???
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:50am
  May I also add : a Marxist, a hypocrite , a radical and a liar ?
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:57am
  And the destruction of America continues right before our eyes. Such a thin line between treason and PC.
  
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- americansfightingforcommonsense
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:59am
  @ Indyguy
  Exactly, Obama does not like the jews (Israel) and is using our troops to overthrow governments in the middle east(Syria, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Pakistan,… ) in order to rush in the Muslim Brotherhood and a Caliphate. Is it not clear what this president is trying to accomplish? Of course it is!
  
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- Advection
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 9:59am
  Yeah, that seems to have been Obama’s litmus test.
  
  Given Obama’s policies in the Middle East in his first term, expect major wars there in his second term, but don’t hold your breath waiting for Obama to help Israel. In fact, I predict Obama will overtly align with Israel’s enemies in the next 2-3 years.
  
  Woe to you, America.
  
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- TIMEBOMB
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:00am
  I am none of the above I’m a gay atheist I just give the impression that I’m a Marxist who’s a Christian and a Muslim,I’m a chameleon,I’m whatever you need me to be.
  
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- dissentnow
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:15am
  @Americansfighting
  
  Romney, McCain, Graham, ect all support the arab rebels. Its not just Obama. The problem is the UN. We need to get out of the UN and we need to elect leaders that understand this. The UN is pushing agenda 21. The UN is pushing the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda. The UN is pushing to disarm America. Both parties bow down and worship at the globalist altar of the UN.
  Where a candidate stands on the UN should be the ultimate litmus test.
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:24am
  @Indyguy:
  
  Obama is not a Muslim, he is too self centered to worship anyone else than himself; the fact of him being an Islamist-SUPPORTER, is true to the core of his being. He sees them as a means to correct a grand mistake (read: Israel and America) done against the Muslims for centuries.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:02am
  SNOW: Agree with your assessment. Obama sees himself as The Great Avenger….fulfilling angry daddy’s dreams.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 11:12am
  TIME: You are a treasure trove of truth. channeled . agree with the chameleon analogy. Obama has a rep for ” voting present.” Also throwing people under the bus. And using crisis ( many manufactured via media promotion ) to further his agenda and cover his “changes” i.e., previous lies !
  
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