When the NeoCon Smear Machine began working overtime to discredit Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as DOD nominee, their motives were suspect as the excerpts below indicate.
What Reponse to Chuck Hagel Says About Us
I've been grumbling to peace activists that they should stop presenting Chuck Hagel as a force for peace and an "Iraq war critic" or an "Iraq war skeptic." It makes it sound as if he opposed a war that he voted for, voted repeatedly to fund, and never took any radical action to end. "Iraq war opponents" in the U.S. Senate routinely voted to fund what they opposed. Funding war is not what comes to mind when one first hears "war opponent."
I've been objecting to depictions of Hagel as a man of great integrity. It disturbs me that Hagel won stunning upset surprise election victories when most of the votes were counted on machines owned, installed, programmed, and run by a company owned and run by Hagel. That seems to me indecent even if the votes were accurately counted. But, of course, the way these machines work there is absolutely no way to tell -- even if you own them -- whether the votes were accurately counted. And that seems to me even more indecent.
http://warisacrime.org/content/what-reponse-chuck-hagel-says-about-us
Chuck Hagel: An Unconventional Realist
Why the Israel lobby hates him — and why we need him at DoD
by Justin Raimondo, December 17, 2012
The knives are out:
“Send us Hagel and we will make sure every American knows he is an anti-Semite.”
That’s what a top Republican Senate aide toldthe Weekly Standard in response to the news that President Obama is likelyto nominate former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as his new Secretary of Defense. Normally, the Israel lobby would try to hide such viciousness, acting behind the scenes to go after their perceived enemies in ways that might repel bystanders: not this time, however.
Why the hate directed at Hagel? Bill Kristol, the neocons’ little Lenin, has provided us with a handy list of reasons, all of which involve Hagel’s adamant refusal to take his marching orders from Tel Aviv.
....it is worth something: as the War Party beats the drums for an attack on Iran, Hagel at DoD will prove something of an obstacle to the Bill Kristols of this world.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/12/16/chuck-hagel-an-unconventional-realist/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33399.htm
“Send us Hagel and we will make sure every American knows he is an anti-Semite.”
That’s what a top Republican Senate aide toldthe Weekly Standard in response to the news that President Obama is likelyto nominate former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as his new Secretary of Defense. Normally, the Israel lobby would try to hide such viciousness, acting behind the scenes to go after their perceived enemies in ways that might repel bystanders: not this time, however.
Why the hate directed at Hagel? Bill Kristol, the neocons’ little Lenin, has provided us with a handy list of reasons, all of which involve Hagel’s adamant refusal to take his marching orders from Tel Aviv.
....it is worth something: as the War Party beats the drums for an attack on Iran, Hagel at DoD will prove something of an obstacle to the Bill Kristols of this world.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/12/16/chuck-hagel-an-unconventional-realist/
Hagel is
anti-Semitic
Chuck Hagel and the Neocon
Smear Machine
By Robert Wright
By Robert Wright
December 20, 2012
"Information Clearing House" -Reports that President Obama may nominate
former Senator Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense haven't been well
received at The Weekly Standard. In pre-emptively opposing the
nomination, the neoconservative magazine is employing what you might call a
two-tiered strategy: the low road and the lower road.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33399.htm
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