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Re: GOP HAGEL SACKED AT PENTAGON
« Reply #25 on: November 24, 2014, 05:03:54 pm »
Wondering if last week's announcement that he was going to ask for extra $1.5 billion for the next couple of years...to revamp the nuclear arsenal program, etc..

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Re: GOP HAGEL SACKED AT PENTAGON
« Reply #26 on: November 24, 2014, 05:17:26 pm »
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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

What is this, some petty school yard tit-for-tat?  You defenestrated some of my buddies in Congress so I'm going to get rid one of yours in my administration?

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Re: GOP HAGEL SACKED AT PENTAGON
« Reply #27 on: November 24, 2014, 05:17:56 pm »
this is the only reason he picked Hagel......to be able to fire him. Scapegoat.


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Re: GOP HAGEL SACKED AT PENTAGON
« Reply #28 on: November 24, 2014, 05:22:06 pm »
What is this, some petty school yard tit-for-tat?  You defenestrated some of my buddies in Congress so I'm going to get rid one of yours in my administration?

The information I'm getting is that Hagel, believe it or not, was actually making some real noise about the White hut micromanaging the Pentagon. O wasn't about to stand for THAT!
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Re: GOP HAGEL SACKED AT PENTAGON
« Reply #29 on: November 24, 2014, 05:25:47 pm »

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