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The Wrong Man for Defense Secretary

Robert 206 Wrote: Feb 05, 2013 6:51 AM

Chucky is delusional if he thinks we don't need nuclear weapons to deter attacks on our homeland. This is still a very dangerous world and I'm sure it will remain so for all the lifetimes of the people living right now. There are always ravenous wolves hovering around civilization's edge--Islamists, China, Russia--ready to attack our soft spots. We could probably pick a man off the street in NYC who would be a better Secretary of Defense than a delusional Hagel! What can we expect from an idiotic president who belongs back in an Ivy League college as an instructor pumping out his unreal philosophy of life in a "racist" America!

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The Wrong Man for Defense Secretary

Americans who are concerned about traditional freedoms and the Second Amendment have no difficulty understanding the message of the popular bumper strip: "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." It should be just as easy to grasp the corollary: If nukes are outlawed, only terrorist countries will have nukes.

But somehow, Barack Obama and Chuck Hagel don't get it. In a 2007 campaign speech, Obama promised: "Here's what I'll say as president: America seeks a world in which there are no nuclear weapons."

Chuck Hagel is listed as one of six directors of a dangerous group called "Global Zero U.S. Nuclear...

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