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Report: Obama Selects New Secretary of Defense.....

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Team BO is leaking out that this guy will replace Hagel. What do you think? Is this another Yes man for BO peep? What say ye?



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Chuck Hagel is out. Ashton Carter is reportedly in:

Ashton Carter, the former second-in-command at the Pentagon, appears to be the top choice to replace outgoing Secretary Chuck Hagel.

Barring any last minute complications, Ash Carter will be President Barack Obama's choice as the new Secretary of Defense, several U.S. administration officials told CNN.....snip~

Report: Obama Selects New SecDef - Daniel Doherty
 
He contributed on this -- notice the date, as well who else was involved.
 
Here is a bit more about him. Figures BO peep would pick someone without Military Experience.


In addition to a broad understanding of the Pentagon bureaucracy, Carter is seen as a master of managing large budgets, a premium in the present era of continued belt tightening on Capitol Hill, as well as an expert on weapons acquisitions.

But Carter does lack certain experience shared by Hagel, Panetta had and many other secretaries - first--hand military experience. Carter has extensive experience at the Pentagon and in academia, but he was never actually in the military.

Carter, who does not have a background as a political operative, is believed to be open to returning to the Pentagon, and would likely generate a smooth confirmation process officials tell CNN. He was previously a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School, and was recently listed as a senior executive at the Markle Foundation.....snip~

Ashton Carter emerges as expected Hagel replacement - CNN.com


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We've had other defense secretaries who weren't in the military.
 
Kobie said:
In the last 25 years, Cohen and Cheney. Didn't look further back than that.
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Cohen and Cheney did more than manage budgets, and both were political operatives.
 
Kobie said:
Goalposts moved?
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No not at all.....you answered the question. If I doubted you I would have had you provide a link. But then I figured you would went with Cheney Right off the bat.

Which leaves nothing but what can be compared with.....and if you support BO peeps choice.
 
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I predict massive political posturing, back and forth jabs, a good bit of stupid questions asked by the media, tons of mic time talking about this or that... and next week we go back to talking about race riots.
 
Well one thing is for certain. The Repubs wont get in the way of this pick. So BO does have that going for him.
 
Jango said:
He contributed on this -- notice the date, as well who else was involved.
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I noticed the date and in 1998 the Clinton administration said that Al Qaeda was a law enforcement issue not a national security issue.

And when the Sudan offered Osama bin Laden to President Clinton, then Clinton's national security adviser Susan Rice (Yes the same Susan Rice who's Obama's national security adviser) convinced Clinton not to accept the offer.

>" In 1996 Rice helped persuade President Clinton to rebuff Sudan’s offer to turn Osama bin Laden, who was then living there, over to U.S. authorities. Rice reasoned that because Sudan had a poor human-rights record, the U.S. should have no dealings with that nation's government -- not even to obtain custody of the al Qaeda leader or to receive intelligence information on terrorists from Sudanese authorities. She viewed such intelligence as inherently untrustworthy. Bin Laden subsequently moved his terrorist operations to Afghanistan, from where he would mastermind the 9/11 attacks..."<
Susan Rice - Discover the Networks
 
Kobie said:
In the last 25 years, Cohen and Cheney. Didn't look further back than that.
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Cohen was a lousy Sec. of Def. Cheney was a better than average Sec. of Def. During the first Gulf war Cheney listened to his generals and didn't micromanage the war. But Cheney did cancel the Navy's A-12 Avenger without a replacement on the drawing board.
 
APACHERAT said:
Cheney was a better than average Sec. of Def. During the first Gulf war Cheney listened to his generals and didn't micromanage the war.
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Too bad he didn't listen to 1994 Cheney in 2003:


Because if we'd gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn't have been anybody else with us. There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq. Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it - eastern Iraq - the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq. The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146 Americans killed in action, and for their families - it wasn't a cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right.
 
APACHERAT said:
Cohen was a lousy Sec. of Def. Cheney was a better than average Sec. of Def. During the first Gulf war Cheney listened to his generals and didn't micromanage the war. But Cheney did cancel the Navy's A-12 Avenger without a replacement on the drawing board.
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Heya Apache. :2wave: There are several Republicans that will back this guy. So again I doubt we will see any blocking by the Repubs on this.
 
OrphanSlug said:
I predict massive political posturing, back and forth jabs, a good bit of stupid questions asked by the media, tons of mic time talking about this or that... and next week we go back to talking about race riots.
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Heya OS. :2wave: Well Holder did say he was going to release his plan over racial profiling. For the Feds that is.

Still, to many Repubs will back this guy. So I doubt there will be much drivel over this guy.
 
MMC said:
Heya Apache. :2wave: There are several Republicans that will back this guy. So again I doubt we will see any blocking by the Repubs on this.
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Considering that the Obama White House doesn't listen to the uniform military advisers and doesn't follow the chain of command and has ignored the past three Secretary of Defense, and that the secretary's are no more than "figureheads,"under the Obama administration, why not block Obama's appointment in response to Obama's disregard to the Constitution ?
 
APACHERAT said:
Considering that the Obama White House doesn't listen to the uniform military advisers and doesn't follow the chain of command and has ignored the past three Secretary of Defense, and that the secretary's are no more than "figureheads,"under the Obama administration, why not block Obama's appointment in response to Obama's disregard to the Constitution ?
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I guess they figure if that's who he wants on his team. Then he has that Right. Good or bad.

Now who he tries to pick as AG.....or for the Courts. That's where any blocking should be.
 
Is Obama bad? I can't tell from the posts in this thread.
 
MMC said:
I guess they figure if that's who he wants on his team. Then he has that Right. Good or bad.

Now who he tries to pick as AG.....or for the Courts. That's where any blocking should be.
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I concur.

Obama has been dependent for the last six years having an Attorney General in place with in the DOJ to protect him from being sent to prison.
 
APACHERAT said:
I concur.

Obama has been dependent for the last six years having an Attorney General in place with in the DOJ to protect him from being sent to prison.
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That, and he has been stacking the lower courts.

Btw, I heard who Brown picked for California. How can he go with someone so young and that never tried a case in California, and isn't from California?
 
The hackery from the right never, ever stops. Predictable as the sunrise.
 
MMC said:
Team BO is leaking out that this guy will replace Hagel. What do you think? Is this another Yes man for BO peep? What say ye?



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Chuck Hagel is out. Ashton Carter is reportedly in:

Ashton Carter, the former second-in-command at the Pentagon, appears to be the top choice to replace outgoing Secretary Chuck Hagel.

Barring any last minute complications, Ash Carter will be President Barack Obama's choice as the new Secretary of Defense, several U.S. administration officials told CNN.....snip~

Report: Obama Selects New SecDef - Daniel Doherty
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Should have been the choice from the beginning! I <3 Ash Carter.
 
Kobie said:
The hackery from the right never, ever stops. Predictable as the sunrise.
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.... I must be missing the hack attacks on Carter. Can you point them out to me?
 
cpwill said:
.... I must be missing the hack attacks on Carter. Can you point them out to me?
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They're not necessarily attacks on Carter; they're simply the same brainless "DURR OBAMA IS TEH SUXORZ" **** we see here every day. Go read a few of the posts in this thread.
 
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