{"id":33098,"date":"2012-12-04T17:29:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T21:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33098"},"modified":"2012-12-05T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T19:16:23","slug":"chuck-haigle-for-secdef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33098","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Hagle for SecDef?"},"content":{"rendered":"

COB6 emailed that he just heard that Chuck Hagle is being considered for Secretary of Defense. So I checked the news and The National Journal<\/a> is reporting that he’s being considered for either Defense or State;<\/p>\n

Hagel has been critical of the current Republican Party since leaving office in 2008, even backing Democratic Senate candidate Bob Kerrey in this cycle. In 2008, Hagel traveled to Iraq with then-Sen. Obama during the presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow the Republican Party is in the hands of the right, I would say the extreme right, more than ever before,\u201d Hagel told FP in a previous interview. \u201cYou’ve got a Republican Party that is having difficulty facing up to the fact that if you look at what happened during the first 8 years of the century, it was under Republican direction.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Before Hagle got on his bipartisan kick, I thought he was a good guy. Hagle, a Vietnam veteran, when Strom Thurmond left the Senate, helped us get National Airborne Day through the Senate. Then his office called me on my cell phone and thanked me for helping to get it through. So, even when he went insane, I still kept a warm spot in my heart for him.<\/p>\n

Then he started his bat shit crazy “Iraq is like Vietnam<\/a>” thing and even had VoteVets supporting him. In fact, VoteVets will tell you that Haigle is the only Republican they ever supported – which is a lie because Haigle’s last election was in 2002 and VoteVets didn’t exist until 2006, but it tells you the kind of company Haigle keeps. <\/p>\n

Making Hagle SecDef only makes sense, since Panetta was the only Democrat SecDef since 1997, so they need another Republican in that office, and who better than an insane anti-war RINO. I’m not sure how this will work out for veterans, because Hagle always made a show of supporting veterans. He left the Army as an E-5 infantry squad leader in 2\/47 Infantry, 9th ID – so we can only hope that he remembers his roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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