Joel B. Pollak
Breitbart.com
Big Peace
2/10/2013
New footage of a speech by Chuck Hagel in 2008 has surfaced, in which the former Senator mocked the idea of continuing the U.S. policy of confronting Iran and supporting Israel. “When I hear the talk about–well you can’t talk with Iran, you can’t talk with Syria and we’re, we should stay where we are and support Israel, and so on, well you miss the point,” he told the laughing audience at an event for his book, America: Our Next Chapter.
Hagel added that the U.S. “shouldn’t even be thinking about the options of bombing Iran,” even in the event of a nuclear attack on Israel, and suggested Israel would be the first to attack Iran with a nuclear weapon.
Hagel told the Senate on Jan. 31 that he could not provide records or video for more than four of the “hundreds” of speeches he had given over the previous five years because they had not been transcribed or recorded…
…However, records and recordings of many of those speeches do exist, suggesting the administration either did not perform the due diligence necessary to comply with the Senate’s request, or that Hagel misled the Senate…
The complete article is at Big Peace.
…There are some Republican Senators who have suggested a procedural move to block Hagel from becoming defense secretary. McCain maintained that Hagel needs to provide more information on unanswered questions, but he remained steadfast that, “we’ve never filibustered a presidential Cabinet appointee and I don’t think we should start here.”…
Update: Chuck Hagel Runs from His Own Record
