There have been many a Senate Committee meeting where hostile questions by one member or another was opened to the floor by yet another member of the committee.
After McCain attacked Senator Hagel yesterday and Senator Nelson provided a window for him to address his service to the country; Senator Hagel was correct to direct the time allowed to answer the hostility leveled at him. It would have been allowed for Senator Nelson to simply ask Senator Hagel if he wanted time to redress previous questions. If the answer was no, then Senator Nelson could have directed the question is ultimately asked. But, the courtesy to extend the nominees remarks usually occurs.
The media is, no doubt, going to back the status quo and treat the answers by Senator Hagel as a social event rather than Military Lobby attack that it was. For bid, Hagel should not have been politically correct in all his verbiage.
What issue divided them? (click here)
The war in Iraq, which Hagel opposed from the get-go, earning himself a place on the "axis of appeasement'' compiled by the neoconservative magazine The Weekly Standard. In 2002, Hagel delivered a thunderous speech on the Senate floor warning that "imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice." The U.S., he said, did not truly understand the factional divisions among Iraq's Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds. He then voted to authorize military action in Iraq — a vote he attributed to his loyalty to the office of the presidency. As the war spun out of control, Hagel became an ever-fiercer critic of the Bush administration. He voted against extending the Patriot Act in 2005, and led opposition in the Senate to the Iraq surge of 2007, calling it the "most dangerous foreign-policy blunder in this country since Vietnam."
It was and the Republicans continue to focus on it as a bragging point. It isn't. The death rate of innocents and soldiers escalated until enough Iraqis died to dilute their opposition to the USA Occupation. Bush changed his strategy after the Iraq Study Group findings to stay and cement his legacy rather than admit he was "W"rong and redraw troops in a "W"rongful war. Due to the fact Republicans hung their hat on the invasion they focus on The Surge as a real strategy rather than a killing field. Neocons have to be correct in everything the do, you know, otherwise they might have to admit the USA's overwhelming military presence in the world is overkill and nations invaded suffer from American politics and not national security.
The day of The Pentagon Papers are gone. The media runs in retreat since the Bush years, so don't expect any media service to do anything except uphold "The Mind Speak" which is the drum beat to war. They beat the drums into Iraq, they are poised to do it again and they will while waving the American flag when they should be waving a white one in surrender of the truth.
The Vietnam war was the Johnson Surge which cost over 50,000 American men their lives. Johnson eventually would state the war was unwinnable after the death of at least one million Vietnamese. But, hey, has know the bottom line of Bell Helicopter was great.
The word unwinnable never appears in the media anymore. The word doesn't exist. I am fairly sure it has been removed from the US media dictionary. All the American people need to know is that Beyonce is legit. That's all and we are great people for healing the wounded warriors and seeing the American flag over coffins in Dover.
The only people (click here) who performed more poorly at Chuck Hagel’s hearing yesterday than Hagel himself were the senators who questioned him. Again and again, they delivered bloviating, tendentious monologues and then cut Hagel off when he tried to reply. “I don’t want to interrupt you,” explained New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte, before interrupting him. When Hagel asked if he could respond to Ted Cruz’s lengthy insinuation that he was dishonest, if not corrupt, the newly elected Texas senator said there wasn’t time....
The practice of appeasement continues. Where did I put that American flag anyway? Did it get burned? Oh, well, I think I still have the Bush effigy somewhere though.
After McCain attacked Senator Hagel yesterday and Senator Nelson provided a window for him to address his service to the country; Senator Hagel was correct to direct the time allowed to answer the hostility leveled at him. It would have been allowed for Senator Nelson to simply ask Senator Hagel if he wanted time to redress previous questions. If the answer was no, then Senator Nelson could have directed the question is ultimately asked. But, the courtesy to extend the nominees remarks usually occurs.
The media is, no doubt, going to back the status quo and treat the answers by Senator Hagel as a social event rather than Military Lobby attack that it was. For bid, Hagel should not have been politically correct in all his verbiage.
What issue divided them? (click here)
The war in Iraq, which Hagel opposed from the get-go, earning himself a place on the "axis of appeasement'' compiled by the neoconservative magazine The Weekly Standard. In 2002, Hagel delivered a thunderous speech on the Senate floor warning that "imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice." The U.S., he said, did not truly understand the factional divisions among Iraq's Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds. He then voted to authorize military action in Iraq — a vote he attributed to his loyalty to the office of the presidency. As the war spun out of control, Hagel became an ever-fiercer critic of the Bush administration. He voted against extending the Patriot Act in 2005, and led opposition in the Senate to the Iraq surge of 2007, calling it the "most dangerous foreign-policy blunder in this country since Vietnam."
It was and the Republicans continue to focus on it as a bragging point. It isn't. The death rate of innocents and soldiers escalated until enough Iraqis died to dilute their opposition to the USA Occupation. Bush changed his strategy after the Iraq Study Group findings to stay and cement his legacy rather than admit he was "W"rong and redraw troops in a "W"rongful war. Due to the fact Republicans hung their hat on the invasion they focus on The Surge as a real strategy rather than a killing field. Neocons have to be correct in everything the do, you know, otherwise they might have to admit the USA's overwhelming military presence in the world is overkill and nations invaded suffer from American politics and not national security.
The day of The Pentagon Papers are gone. The media runs in retreat since the Bush years, so don't expect any media service to do anything except uphold "The Mind Speak" which is the drum beat to war. They beat the drums into Iraq, they are poised to do it again and they will while waving the American flag when they should be waving a white one in surrender of the truth.
The Vietnam war was the Johnson Surge which cost over 50,000 American men their lives. Johnson eventually would state the war was unwinnable after the death of at least one million Vietnamese. But, hey, has know the bottom line of Bell Helicopter was great.
The word unwinnable never appears in the media anymore. The word doesn't exist. I am fairly sure it has been removed from the US media dictionary. All the American people need to know is that Beyonce is legit. That's all and we are great people for healing the wounded warriors and seeing the American flag over coffins in Dover.
The only people (click here) who performed more poorly at Chuck Hagel’s hearing yesterday than Hagel himself were the senators who questioned him. Again and again, they delivered bloviating, tendentious monologues and then cut Hagel off when he tried to reply. “I don’t want to interrupt you,” explained New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte, before interrupting him. When Hagel asked if he could respond to Ted Cruz’s lengthy insinuation that he was dishonest, if not corrupt, the newly elected Texas senator said there wasn’t time....
The practice of appeasement continues. Where did I put that American flag anyway? Did it get burned? Oh, well, I think I still have the Bush effigy somewhere though.
