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ISIS' First Administration Casualty: Chuck Hagel Resigns Under Pressure From Obama

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It appears some folks might be scapegoated... As NY Times reports, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down, under presssure. President Obama made the decision to ask his defense secretary — the sole Republican on his national security team — to step down last Friday, as a recognition that the threat from the Islamic State would require a different kind of skills than those that Mr. Hagel has, and that his team has struggled to stay ahead of an onslaught of global crises.

As NY Times reports,

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down under pressure, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama’s Democratic majority in the Senate and a beleaguered national security team that has struggled to stay ahead of an onslaught of global crises.

 

The president, who is expected to announce Mr. Hagel’s resignation in a Rose Garden appearance on Monday, made the decision to ask his defense secretary — the sole Republican on his national security team — to step down last Friday after a series of meetings over the past two weeks, senior administration officials said.

 

The officials described Mr. Obama’s decision to remove Mr. Hagel, 68, as a recognition that the threat from the Islamic State would require a different kind of skills than those that Mr. Hagel was brought on to employ.

 

In his less than two years on the job, Mr. Hagel’s detractors said he struggled to inspire confidence at the Pentagon in the manner of his predecessors, especially Robert Gates. But several of Mr. Obama’s top advisers have over the past months also acknowledged privately that the president did not want another high-profile defense secretary in the manner of Mr. Gates, who went on to write a memoir of his years with Mr. Obama in which he sharply criticized the president. Mr. Hagel, they said, in many ways, was exactly the kind of Defense Secretary which the president, after battling the military during his first term, wanted.

 

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He raised the ire of the White House in August as the administration was ramping up its strategy to fight the Islamic State, directly contradicting the president, who months before had likened the Sunni militant group to a junior varsity basketball squad. Mr. Hagel, facing reporters in his now-familiar role next to General Dempsey, called the Islamic State an “imminent threat to every interest we have,” adding, “This is beyond anything that we’ve seen.” White House officials later said they viewed those comments as unhelpful, although the administration still appears to be struggling to define just how large is the threat posed by the Islamic State.

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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:25 | 5481281 HedgeAccordingly
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Say it isn't so!!

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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:34 | 5481315 BaBaBouy
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The Cheney(Cyborg) Is Coming Back...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:41 | 5481339 Momauguin Joe
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One wonders what sort of dirt they have on Hagel.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:41 | 5481357 MsCreant
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Not enough, apparently.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:43 | 5481361 SWRichmond
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm81NEys7xk

Hagel: "We must prepare for...everything" starts at 40 seconds in.

Everything, apparently including Hagel getting fired?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:48 | 5481383 Bollixed
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"described Mr. Obama’s decision.."

Yea right, Barry's decision. Like he's actually allowed to decide these things. I'll bet even his caddy chooses his clubs.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:50 | 5481390 Karlus
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Valerie saw the news talking about shaking up the cabinet and she is doing it....there will be a few more people she does not like on the list soon.

 

In the meantime, they are plowing thru Lois' emails....she might want to think about cutting a deal. Elija Cummings also...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:02 | 5481425 sodbuster
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Some folks are Rinos.......

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:04 | 5481433 Keyser
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I wonder if Barry had the decency to give Hagel a reach-around on the way out the door... You know, for service (on his knees) to his country and king... 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:06 | 5481441 sodbuster
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During his golfing vacation at Martha's Vineyard - President 0bama had been slicing off the tee on every hole.
He asked his Scottish caddy if he had noticed any obvious reasons for his poor tee shots, to which the caddy replied:
"Aye, there's a piece of shyt on the end of yer driver. "
The President picked up his driver and cleaned the club face, at which point the caddy said:
"No, the other end

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:23 | 5481499 847328_3527
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He forgot to remind the MIC with the music to their ears phrases like, “we’ll stay in Eye-Rack for as long as it takes, even 100 years, in order to bring them peace, stability and freedom.”

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:28 | 5481524 smithcreek
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He'll put in a political hack/campaign adviser and just persude the media not to cover the issue.  Problem solved.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:25 | 5481664 Pinto Currency
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Chuck wanted a 21 day Ebola quarantine for returning US troops from West Africa.

Barry doesn't like when people can see how stupid he looks in comparison.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:19 | 5482027 Poundsand
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I am going to disagree with the vast majority here.  Not the Jews, not the MIC.  Obama is clearly doing everything he can to allow the ISIS group to get up and running and to dominate the ME, opposite Iran.  Why?  I don't exactly know, but there is no doubt that ISIS is on the rise and Obama wants that.  Anyone trying to stop it is going to be isolated and removed.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 15:37 | 5482587 Pinto Currency
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Good point.

Chuck is probably not much one for playing silly bugger with US military assets.

Middle Ease chaos is the game of the day.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:38 | 5481555 NotApplicable
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I read that in David Feherty's voice.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:45 | 5482161 benb
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Chuck Bagel... no more schmears for you...

Some folks are traitors...

And, some folks are CIA cut-outs working for the Crown.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:25 | 5481504 Dubaibanker
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You mean...people are still responsible for their actions?

That's new!

Is leaving a position for greener pastures a Pass or a Fail grade?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:01 | 5482232 OpenThePodBayDoorHAL
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I think we just need to make up two batches of T-shirts: one that says "Extremist Terrorist" and the other that says "Moderate Terrorist". Make them line up and select one, then arm the Moderate guys to the teeth with all of our latest weaponry

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:11 | 5481985 DerdyBulls
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Perhaps Hagel intends to blow the lid on who created ISIS. That would be quite a networth boost, or shorten his lifespan.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:10 | 5482269 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

Perhaps but maybe the plan all along was to make him the sacrificial USSA thanksgiving turkey.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 16:23 | 5482756 putaipan
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no. that was bill cosby. remind all those white people who that felt they could trust dr.huxtable who's really responsible for ferguson. 'course, it doesn't matter that police, in utah of all places, have killed more than domestic,gang related and child abuse murders combined. no stats available for the rest of the nation.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:39 | 5481340 Divided States ...
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i will wager with anybody that hagel's replacement will be a jew

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:54 | 5481405 chunga
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It really sucks doesn't it?

The world would be better off without them.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:05 | 5481434 sodbuster
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How does Moses make coffee?  Hebrews it.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 20:20 | 5483818 StychoKiller
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Praise Allah that we now have better methods...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:26 | 5481516 tarsubil
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I'm thinking it is going to be along the lines of Foxx. How much you want to wager and what are the odds?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:00 | 5481657 Jonathan Equine...
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Jennifer Rubin hates Hagel which is literally enough to tell you that the man must be much more good than bad.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/01/03/qualified-d...

I mean - she is nakedly a Jewish Supremacist, racist, Israel Firster who wants a Zionist Jew to be defense secretary to dedicate American blood and treasure to the cause of Ersatz Israel. 

I am glad at least that her comments section reflects a good amount of anti-neocon sentiment.

The Jewish lobby smeared Hagel for daring to refer to the Jewish lobby as the Jewish lobby.  Everyone knows that there are lots of Evanelical "Christians" in southern states and they keep electing the Cruzes and Grahams and the rest of those fucktards because they want ww3 to start so Jewsus can come back, etc.

But inside Washington, AIPAc, the ADL, the Jewish Congressional Caucus, the dozens and dozens of pro-Israel organizations that get face time - pretty much a Jewish affair, and it is not "hate" to refer to it as a Jewish lobby - at best, one might argue that it's less accurate than "pro-Israel" lobby.   I don't even buy that argument because, by and large, the neocon warmonger apparatus from the Times to WashPo - from Commentary to Tablet to the back page of Time - it's all Israel Firster Jews whose primary concern is Israel, and whose secondary concern is obfuscating the very power they ceaselessly work to cultivate.

Then again, it is certainly worth mentioning that the only reason Palestinians haven't been rounded up and gassed en masse is because of a large number -probably a thin majority - of Jews are liberal, genuinely, and a crucial minority have called out Israel for the warcrime factory that it has been since it's inception - bombing hotels and buses and building tunnels to hide ammunition stolen from the US.

 

If not for the Finkelsteins and Blumenthals and Weisses and even Chimsky - who gets  bad rap in some circles [his notion that Israel is America's proxy in the region, excluding the reality of Israeli hyperinfluence via Jewish political and media power simply shows the man isn't right about everything - it doesn't necessarily mean he's a gatekeeper as he's pretty candid about Israel's warcrimes] - there'd be even less discussion than there is now.

 

In any event - the risk that Hagel will be replaced with a more compliant neocon tool of Likud is substantial.  The Jewish Lobby is working tirelessly to lie us into Iran as they lied us into Iraq  {if you think Iraq was about oil - you just have to explain why spending 3 trillion to do so and not using that oil to pay the costs makes sense - or why Chna was allowed to benefit so much}. 

 

The Israeli 5th column is the biggest danger facing the United States.  Despite the fact Netanyahu has claimed that Iran was "months away" from a nuke for literally over 20 years, despite lying before Congress about Iraq 'certainly, without any doubt' working on nukes, despite being involved in a nuclear smuggling ring stealing chrytons and probably other material from US facilities with the help of Jewish American sayanim...  despite evidence Israel tried to fabricate evidence of an Iranian weapons program [laptop of death] despite all that, he is taken seriously when he claims Iran is working on a nuke, even as Israel puts its own nukes on subs, and even as Israel is actually wiping a nation off the map.

 

Netanyahu Is a National Security Risk -- And Washington Knows It
Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:48 | 5481382 El Oregonian
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10 little indians, 9 little indi... er, sorry, thats racist.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:20 | 5481484 Berspankme
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Imagine how worthless of a fucj fuck

you are to to be fired by obammy

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 20:23 | 5483828 StychoKiller
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Yow, you could almost park an aircraft carrier on that lower lip! :>D

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:49 | 5481604 stant
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Who's left ? Valarie and the janitor?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:26 | 5481284 Dollar Bill Hiccup
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Bibi calls Aipac. Aipac calls ZOA. ZOA calls Cruz. Cruz calls Jarrett ... wait, what?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:33 | 5481317 Seasmoke
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Six Degrees of Bibi Netanyahoooooooooo

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:31 | 5481805 winchester
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50 shades of beniamin...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:12 | 5482274 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

Or another day in DC.

OH!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:26 | 5481285 gatorengineer
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First of hopefully many Dead RINOs.....

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:26 | 5481286 NoDebt
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Oh, it's on like Donkey Kong in the Middle East now, baby.

Here come the boots on the ground and yet another broken Obama promise.

Paging EKM.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:27 | 5481287 ShrNfr
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Damn, but the underside of that bus is crowded, isn't it??

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:31 | 5481305 MsCreant
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Oh, I thought that bus was jacked up and that's why it wasn't rolling. My bad.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:27 | 5481289 Smegley Wanxalot
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Laugh all you want, but dumbass POSident Barack Obuttfuck will replace Hagel with something worse, trust me.  Barry is a fucking piece of shit retard.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:29 | 5481296 NoDebt
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If by worse you mean somebody ready to re-expand the military budget and put "boots on the ground" in the Middle East against ISIS, yes, you're right.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:42 | 5481564 NotApplicable
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Wait, why would you even begin to pretend that it matters? Better yet, why would you pretend that Obummer has ANY say in the decision?

Why exactly are you supporting divide and conquer puppetry strategies as if they represent anything real? Do you seriously not realize that this is all a grand facade of political theater, having absolutely nothing to do with governance?

Bitch at the puppets all you want, but it's clear who the real fool is here.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:27 | 5481292 ekm1
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A non-neocon is out.

I predict a democrat neocon will take his place, implementing Clinton hawkish policies.

 

Clintons are taking over with Military's blessing, in my view

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:30 | 5481304 NoDebt
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Don't know about the whole Clinton thing, but I'd for sure be buying stock in military contracting and manufacturing firms at this point.  

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:40 | 5481347 LawsofPhysics
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Bullshit.  You banker fuck.  No patriotic commanders that I know want to do the bidding of Israel, or have any respect for the Clintons.  Sorry, this does not pass the smell test.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:45 | 5481356 ekm1
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

This is absolutely fantastic.

Neocons taking over.

 

Laws, you have an issue with elite. No way around elite. We only choose elite, but that's all.

Elite will always rule one way or another.

Civilization is inherently 'rule by elite we choose', otherwise go and hunt for your own food

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:46 | 5481371 LawsofPhysics
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Let me be clear.  Get long military stocks either way. 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:51 | 5481395 Cathartes Aura
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that was always a given.

perpetual war for the perpetual "patriotic" uni-formed.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:57 | 5481411 photonsoflight
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I put my money in more productive things. Remember what Einstien said about ww4.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:33 | 5481810 winchester
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be fair, let ww3 comes 1st

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 20:26 | 5483847 StychoKiller
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According to Rickards in "The Death of Money," WW3 has been going on for some time now, in financial cyber-space.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:27 | 5481515 Ignorance is bliss
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Cramerica says BUY! BUY! BUY!!! War is coming to America. BOOooooYahhhh Bitvhez

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:15 | 5482286 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen!

What's this "Let me be clear." stuff? Tough talk!?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:01 | 5481663 Jonathan Equine...
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Jesus, your incoherent dispatches are nothing if not tedious.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:17 | 5482293 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

You will catch more earthworms with honey vs. vinegar. So let's be nicer on The Hedge.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:03 | 5481428 7againstThebes
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The higher levels of the American military are a gaggle of moral cowards -- and a lot of physical cowards, too. 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:47 | 5481590 NotApplicable
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Clinton's are taking over with central banks blessing. The military is incapable of taking over shit, as the Pentagon is every bit as compromised by money and power as any other entity of control.

Are you unaware that the last time the military was goaded to stage a coup in the US (Smedley Butler), it was also at the doing of Wall St?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:29 | 5481294 JustObserving
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AIPAC did not approve of Hagel? He was not so ready to start a major new war in Syria?  Defense secretaries are only fired when they are not offensive enough.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:29 | 5481297 MsCreant
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We need another LAWYER! And he must have PR experience! Quick!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:34 | 5481320 lakecity55
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Flounder for Secdef!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:39 | 5481338 booboo
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John Kerrys brother, that comedian guy, what's his name, Jim Kerry, yea, thats it.

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:30 | 5481799 Silky Johnson
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And a fuckin yarmulke slapped on his fucking head

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:29 | 5481298 WTFUD
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When you can't stay ahead of the shit you're creating you resign. Ya hear me Barry?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:29 | 5481299 Bumbu Sauce
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He has the IQ and accumen of a doorstop.  My word, I'm surprised he made it this long.  Watch for the dog eater to nominate someone truly offensive.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:05 | 5481672 SokPOTUS
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Henry Kissinger's not dead yet.  Oblame-o could use a little Gravitas.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:54 | 5481890 falak pema
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Dear Henry's recent statement on Ukraine and Russia shows he is not brain dead.

He still has more savvy as an old style power balance conservative than the NWO neo-cons who were all into Huntingtonian clash of civilization hubris. 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:30 | 5481302 q99x2
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Dude probably refused to nuke the US.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:29 | 5481529 Boubou
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Or a new false flag on Miami and DC

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:31 | 5481303 Seasmoke
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Hey Chuck watch out for the buses back tires 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:31 | 5481306 falak pema
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Inevitable Budget Cuts in recession pains and MIC retrenchment is a bitch.

Heads do roll when the wagon train moves back from fort Custer, now a stockade abandoned.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:45 | 5481369 Winston of Oceania
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The robots coming so the savings in labor will be taken up in moar equipment, all of us "mouth breathers " should take heed.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:01 | 5481666 Jonathan Equine...
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puppet yes, but not enough of one.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:32 | 5481310 J Pancreas
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We fired some folks.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:32 | 5481312 MsCreant
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Obama: "I blamed some folks."

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:54 | 5481407 Colonel Klink
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The buck stops at everyone else.

-Oblamo

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:33 | 5481313 Rikky
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At least this anti-semite is shown the curb.

 

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-thornton/the-wests-shameful-demon...

 

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:37 | 5481329 LawsofPhysics
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right, because all those Jews at the central banks are doing "God's work"...

tick tock motherfucker.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 14:43 | 5482415 Rikky
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gotta love the groupthink that's become zerohedge.  it used to be a place for an exchange of different ideas and just like everything else it's become a homogenous collective of singular thought.  next.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 20:29 | 5483868 StychoKiller
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No one's selecting yer readin' material here (are they?)

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:42 | 5481353 Jonathan Equine...
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"Shown the curb?"

 

I'd like to show you the curb, teeth first, you revolting ziopathic, hasbara puke

 

 

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/11/23/israel-americas-biggest-fr...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:04 | 5481431 messystateofaffairs
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One of Americas wannabe Jewish masters has spoken. Get ready for Hagels Jewish replacement, coming to serve a goyim near you.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:47 | 5481589 Colonel Klink
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Isn't that the Yaweh damned truth!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:33 | 5481314 gladih8r
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Why don't we deploy the same fuckers who trained and funded ISIS to now go fight them. 

Said fuckers would probably know a lot of the key ISIS operatives on the 1st name basis.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:35 | 5481327 MsCreant
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So you are nominating John McCain?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:47 | 5481380 gladih8r
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Sure, why not?  Among others of course. 

We just need to take a permanent marker put a dotted line around their necks before they go.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:34 | 5481316 Jethro
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So Hagel will be replaced by a Defence Tzar?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:59 | 5481421 messystateofaffairs
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Yes, a Jewish one.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:05 | 5481440 Jethro
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Things could be looking up for Ron Klain. 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:01 | 5481929 Blano
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Every time I see that name I read it as Ron McLean of HNIC fame.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:22 | 5481492 Boubou
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The term "Czar"  was only chosen as an insult to the historic  Russian overthrow of  hereditary despots.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:33 | 5481319 mastersnark
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How cute, they are still pretending ISIS isn't an arm of the CIA.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:34 | 5481324 Seasmoke
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So not Jewish enough ???

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:36 | 5481325 LawsofPhysics
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Wait what?  Where the fuck is elm1?  I thought it was the bankers that were surrendering, not the other way around.  I knew he was a banker.  Where is that motherfucker?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:40 | 5481348 ekm1
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LOL.

Hagel was chosen as an 'anti-war republican'.

Non neocon goes out.

Neocon comes in, is my prediction. Military taking over.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:43 | 5481360 LawsofPhysics
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None of the military brass I know wants to do the bidding of Israel any longer.  Especially those from a certain resource-rich southern state.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:45 | 5481373 ekm1
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This has nothing to do with Israel, and everything to do with Saudis.

Israel is just a guinea pig.

Saudis are the big bull

Saudis feed those generals, not Israel

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:15 | 5481463 photonsoflight
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So your saying that to defeat the U.S. all Putin really needs to do is destroy the saudi oil feilds? I bet Putin won't forget those threats that the saudis made against Russia.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:55 | 5481409 Cathartes Aura
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oooh, "any longer" - don't want to play their well-compensated roles "any longer".

 

go go "certain resource-rich southern state" long role-playing. . .

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:37 | 5481328 f16hoser
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So long Asshole! Don't let the door hit you in the ass... which you couldn't find with both hands.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:38 | 5481332 rabbitusvomitus
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Bullsh*t!  He refused to go along with program of appeasement and half measures in the face of a growing threat. He was removed. I will be proven right (or wrong) when we find out who his replacement will be.

 

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:10 | 5481453 effendi
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Why are you guys cheering Hagel getting the boot by that slime Obummer?

Hagel is white, of German ancestry, went to a Catholic school, is an Episcopalian, volunteered and served in a combat unit, was twice wounded in action and stood up for proper treatment of returning vets. That makes him better than most in Washington (even if he is a statist).

Probably the only semi decent voice of reason in the Obummer admin and now Obummer will be surrounded by yes men (I use that term loosly as many will hardly be men but GBLT affirmative action twats).

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:39 | 5481333 WTFUD
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Deep down i always had an uneasy feeling that Chuck Hagar was a double agent. Thanks be to god that Barry has seen through this republican. Once a republic always . . . can't say much more nudge nudge wink wink. Maybe now the Emperor can offer Mr McStain a freer role in combating terorisdom at home and in wogland. All hail Ming!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:39 | 5481335 FreeShitter
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He spilled the beans on the NWO a little too early, that wasnt his job obviously.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:39 | 5481337 esum
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another sacrificial lamb for OBABA'S incompetence AND unwillingness to kill muzzies... especially those he personally aided and abetted...funds via sauds and qatar, training in  qatar, jordan and turkey, weapons from benghazi via eastern europe and turkey... 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:40 | 5481343 gatorengineer
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Paging Flounder.... He won the war on Ebola right?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:41 | 5481349 Winston of Oceania
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He always was a clusterchuck...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:43 | 5481358 Omen IV
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oBAMA is increasingly focused on controlling the fallout as the obama every move is in disaray - articles on multiple leaks of criticism from Harry Reid's office, other parties

when Putin destroys the new offensive planned by Kiev - can obama control everyone everywhere to stay in line or does the game disintergrate completely

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:52 | 5481365 ebworthen
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The unhinged rat captain of the garbage scow kicking his fellow rats off the sinking barge.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:46 | 5481375 BendGuyhere
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President Jarrett making the tough calls.

Having said that, adios nalgonas!

Next secdef: Rummy, Nuland or Hunter Biden

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:47 | 5481376 MsCreant
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Chucked out.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:47 | 5481381 Raoul_Luke
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I'm sure the President has some under qualified and ill equipped lesbian communist who can be promoted into that job...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:05 | 5481951 thebigunit
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Hillary Rodham Clinton.

After all, she WAS Soros' second chioce in 2008.  She can't be THAT bad.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:50 | 5481386 gaoptimize
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With this president, a feckless SECDEF is the best we could hope for.  God help us if the next one is effective.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:50 | 5481387 messystateofaffairs
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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:54 | 5481403 MsCreant
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Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:49 | 5481389 messystateofaffairs
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Somebody help we with this ISIS thing. Did Dr. Frankenstein's monster get loose and the doc can't put him back in the box or is this just a ramped up box office edition of the terrorist show?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:55 | 5481406 MsCreant
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"Yes."

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:17 | 5481474 Boubou
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The latter.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:03 | 5481943 Blano
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What MsCreant said.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:51 | 5481396 shovelhead
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Lol.

Obama: "These guys are the JV team..."

Hagel: These guys are fucking dangerous nuts."

Obama: Don't listen to him...I'm the President DAMMIT."

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:54 | 5481400 dexter_morgan
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Next one must be AIPAC approved to fight their battles for them.

 

queue more Cosby rape allegations for distraction

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:52 | 5481401 NoWayJose
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But wasn't it Obama and Hagel that purged the upper and mid-level military commanders who questioned the US policies -- the same ones that are now being admitted as being a clusterf*ck???

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:54 | 5481612 Son of Captain Nemo
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But wasn't it Obama and Hagel that purged the upper and mid-level military commanders who questioned the US policies -- the same ones that are now being admitted as being a clusterf*ck???

Short answer "Yes"!

With guys like this courtesy of the Zionist outpost we've been paying for since 1949 who is a "dual citizen" and a direct threat to our national security just like the career politicians on Capitol Hill "we keep voting for"!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 10:56 | 5481412 Son of Captain Nemo
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As much of a "dove" as Hagel turned out to be -Does this mean John McCain, Mike Hayden or maybe Dov Zakheim will be the new repalcement?!!!

I feel a genuine rapprochement with Russia and China 'tingle' in the air and just around the corner!  Don't you?...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:03 | 5481432 gwar5
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Fuck Chuck. He really is a stupid, slow witted man.

 

This is the kind of idiot the WH trots out as having intellectual chops for important level cabinet posts. I can see Nancy Pelosi lobbing an nuclear ICBM at Moscow saying, "We have to let it blow up before we know what's in it."

It was community organizer newbie-Obama who picked Joe Biden as his running mate in 2008 to add "experience and gravitas" to his candidacy. But Joe's a joke and all of his experiences since he rode in on Carter's coattails in 1976 have been bad.

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:09 | 5481445 Calculus99
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Wonder what the blue sky thinking will be of the next Merchant of Death (US Defence Secretary)?

Perhaps he'll come up with the radical idea to drop even more bombs...

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:08 | 5481446 Bumbu Sauce
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Wesley Clark?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:38 | 5481837 I Write Code
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Weasely Jerk.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:17 | 5481462 ThisIsBob
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Biting off substantially more than you can chew Mr. President?  Blaming Hagel and purging the military because they can't make it happen, Mr. President?  Got it.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:17 | 5481469 roadhazard
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Hagles replacement will not be a war monger. Just wait for Hitlery and you will have all the war you can stand. 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 12:40 | 5481843 winchester
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somehow  still can't think hitlary will be the trigger, all the world will tell on shtf " forgive her, 1st woman president, she just do no know hot to do... just like the actual frog, 1st normal prez....fuck me what a mess... even rioters feel shamefull to act against such shitbrain.

 

hitlary to vladimir : you nazi russian i gonna send boot  to kick your ass !

russian def minister to vlad : don't worry, she's got her periods.

 

 

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 13:04 | 5481945 MsCreant
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She does not have periods anymore. Just sayin'.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 20:38 | 5483894 StychoKiller
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Hmm, so yer sayin' it's a permanent thang?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:15 | 5481470 moneybots
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"as a recognition that the threat from the Islamic State would require a different kind of skills than those that Mr. Hagel has, and that his team has struggled to stay ahead of an onslaught of global crises."

 

And we haven't even reached peak onslaught, yet.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:15 | 5481473 Bumbu Sauce
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Echoes of the halls of the Reichstag in here...unbelievable.

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:16 | 5481476 Emergency Ward
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He was brought in as the "Dovish Republican" Secretary of War.  Too dovish for Obama?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:20 | 5481485 WTFUD
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Regardless of political persuasion the ONLY good politician is a dead one!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:20 | 5481487 photonsoflight
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Perhaps Hagel still had a shred of decency?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:20 | 5481489 photonsoflight
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Perhaps Hagel still had a shred of decency?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:28 | 5481525 Thunderbox
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Just throwing this out there but if things in Ferguson start to unravel on a national level would the "right" kind of guy in the SecDef position mean anything?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:26 | 5481508 Infinite QE
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Any black, gay, war-mongering jew available?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:32 | 5481536 Ignorance is bliss
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Does anyone recall those rumors of missing nuclear warheads a few years ago? Before Hagel leaves, could someone ask him where they are?

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:34 | 5481545 MsCreant
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But, but, your screen name!?!

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:42 | 5481566 Ignorance is bliss
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My screen name should be "Ignorance was bliss"

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:35 | 5481547 Seal
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Bacevich piece makes Obomba, Jarrett, Dempsey, Petraeus, et all look like idiots

Mon, 11/24/2014 - 11:35 | 5481548 Bankster Kibble
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Radio news this morning said Hegel was more of a hawk toward Assad than Obama wanted.  That, plus the insubordination probably finished him.

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