Lindsey Graham Lobs Disingenuous Attacks On Chuck Hagel

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http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/01/06/1403301/lindsey-graham-lobs-disingenuous-attacks-on-chuck-hagel/

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday attacked former Republican senator Chuck Hagel, reportedly President Obama’s choice as the next Defense Secretary, calling him a “controversial pick” and suggesting that Hagel is out of the mainstream.
Graham’s evidence? He didn’t offer much in the way of specifics, of course. Rather, the South Carolina Republican claimed Hagel is “very antagonistic toward the state of Israel” (again, not saying how) and complained that Hagel said “you should directly negotiate with Iran” (we’re not sure why this is a bad thing. President Obama believes this as well) and that sanctions on Iran “won’t work.” Graham also cited the fact that Hagel has promoted talks with Hamas, the terrorist group that runs Gaza.

So I assume Graham opposes Kerry as well, because you could apply each of these criticisms to him as well (as some of the extreme RWers are saying).

Nobody said that Graham needed to be logical (and I doubt that Candy Crowley called him on that).

Senator Graham also attacked Hagel for opposing President Bush’s troop surge in Iraq in 2007. “I’ll have a hard time voting for anybody to be Secretary of Defense who believes that the surge was a foreign policy blunder,” Graham said on CNN today. But Graham also said during the same interview that he supports Sen. John Kerry’s (D-MA) nomination as the next Secretary of State. “I respect him,” Graham said of Kerry, adding, “I think he’s a thoughtful man. I think he’s in the mainstream.” But who else thought the Iraq surge was a bad idea? John Kerry (and Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama). And while it’s unclear what effect Bush’s surge had on the ultimate outcome of the war, one thing is clear: Graham’s continued Iraq war boosting is way outside the mainstream, as a large majority of Americans think the war was not worth fighting.

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1. That sniveling little prick is so afraid of getting primaried that we'll be hearing ...

lots more shit like this!

[TwilightGardener]

2. The neocons are not afraid of Kerry. They will barely question him.

The knives are for Hagel, even though he and Kerry are on the same foreign policy and defense page. They should be afraid of Kerry.

[butterfly77]

3. I can't wait for the hearings...

I want to see the confrontations between Graham and Hagel,plus McCain..