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Very, very difficult time with the sequester and all the other things going on. mr. hagel may be a very nice man but we have a lot of people whoa we be better. i don t think we re going to get anybody but hagel. he s going to be confirmed and figures to be what mr. obama wants, a guy who is not going to be independent, who is not going to have a deep knowledge of the defense community and not going to be a very effective guy over neil: some secretaries of defense, leeon panetta, no defense background, did a pretty good job, utilizing his congressional skills and advisory skills. turned out to be a good assessor of the state of defense in this country you. don t think hagel could groove into that job the same way? i don t think so, and i disagree with the premise. we look at the pentagon right now. leeon panetta for a year refused to plan for the sequester. so now if hagel gets in and ....
If he said that to have such a view. graham says hagel wrote him a letter denying the comment and he will accept that unless more information emerges. hagel s nomination was held up in the senate last week by an historic filibuster. senator john mccain thinks the vote should go forward even though he doesn t think hagel is the best pick for the job. i don t believe he is is qualified but i don t believe that we should hold up the nomination any further because it is a reasonable amount of time to have questions answered. congress wanted more answers about the attack in benghazi, question hes the president thinks were politically motivated. that was largely driven by campaign stuff because everything about that we have had more testimony and more paper provided to congress than ever before and congress is sort of running out of things to ask. so the nominations of chuck haig toll be defense secretary and john brennan to head the cia both hanging in the balance now which the wh ....
How much policy? how much personal? break it down. it s a side show. this is senate. it s the opposite party. when they are nominating, democrats do it, republicans do it. it s also personal. with chuck hagel, he served with them. he was a di- visive figure. you are not going to see a lot of republicans doing it. it s part policy, it s part political politics and gets personal. you know, the personal part of it, it seemed to take it to a completely different level this week. i mean am i completely wrong? it did. i don t think hagel helped himself by his performance calling the legitimate state of iran, having to go back and pausing and assaulting, you know, kind of performance. certainly very different than ....
well, a couple of things. first of all, chuck hagel probably deserves another purple heart after today s hearing. and i think the other thing you saw, two great heroes, two titans of american senatorial politics really, john mccain and chuck hagel, who ripped apart over a very principal difference about deploying men and women in iraq. and that is i think really the crux of it. i don t think hagel wanted to tell john mccain that oh, your policy may have appeared cosmetically to succeed in a really failed war that didn t move the dial and if you take a look at it, you know, hagel snuck in some very important data points. ....
First of all, chuck hagel probably deserves another purple heart after today s hearing. and i think the other thing you saw, two great heroes, two titans of american senatorial politics really, john mccain and chuck hagel, who ripped apart over a very principal difference about deploying men and women in iraq. and that is i think really the crux of it. i don t think hagel wanted to tell john mccain that oh, your policy may have appeared cosmetically to succeed in a really failed war that didn t move the dial and if you take a look at it, you know, hagel snuck in some very important data points. 1,200 americans died during that time, thousands of others wounded. and by the way, if you take a look at the scene, much of the sunni leadership in iraq had been run out of the country. by maliki. and the experiment looks fragile. so what did you get? and many people think it wasn t the deployment of the u.s. forces, it was the essentially hiring or bribing, if you will, of young sunnis that he ....