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Hagel sez US should be talking with Iran

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-02-18 01:46|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Where has this turd been for the last 25 years in a cave? Talk with Iran? When have they wanted to talk to us ever? Maybe him being from Nebraska explains it?

Posted by Sock Puppet O' Doom 2006-02-18 02:00|| 2006-02-18 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 I think an undisclosed head injury is the only explanation...otherwise he's just a pandering jerk

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-02-18 02:07|| 2006-02-18 02:07|| Front Page Top

#3 A friend of dad's is an associate of Hagel.
Hagel grew up in a really really dead poor and bad family. He was the chief breadwinner and man of the house at 16.

Says it gives him a different perspecitive on everything. Not sure why he became a Republican then...

Posted by 3dc 2006-02-18 03:02|| 2006-02-18 03:02|| Front Page Top

#4 I say we let the B-52's do the talking.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-02-18 05:09|| 2006-02-18 05:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Hagel is blind from too much mastubation.

Posted by SR-71">SR-71 2006-02-18 09:11|| 2006-02-18 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Talk? Only if the Iranians can't jawbone and weaponize plutonium at the same time, Chuckie.

Posted by regular joe 2006-02-18 09:20|| 2006-02-18 09:20|| Front Page Top

#7 I agree with Hagel that we should be talking with Iran. I just disagree about the overall tone the US should take. I think something like this is more appropriate.

Hey, you, with the funny hat! Try to make one of them nukes and we're gonna kick your a**.

Posted by Ol Dirty American 2006-02-18 10:15|| 2006-02-18 10:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Article: Hagel also got in a gibe at Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of a hunting partner last weekend.

Referring to Cheney's repeated draft deferrals during the Vietnam War, Hagel said, "If he'd been in the military, he would have learned gun safety."

He's got what a lot of left-wing American veterans and just plain leftists have - Praetorian Guard complex (the idea that only veterans should get to talk about military matters, and then only if appeasement is the subject). Which is a really weird thing to have in a democracy. I think Hagel would really be more comfortable as a Communist Party apparatchik in Beijing.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-02-18 11:15|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-02-18 11:15|| Front Page Top

#9 "Praetorian Guard complex" -- wonderful summary of that attitude!

Posted by Whutch Threth6418 2006-02-18 11:33|| 2006-02-18 11:33|| Front Page Top

#10 How did 12 years of jawboning with Saddam work out, Senator?

Posted by Raj 2006-02-18 13:40|| 2006-02-18 13:40|| Front Page Top

#11 ..calling in part for a more measured approach to Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Seems to me the current approach IS measured.

"..Why aren't we talking to them?"

Here's a few clues: Embassy, 444, "Great Satan", and 1979.

Any light bulbs illuminated yet?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2006-02-18 15:11|| 2006-02-18 15:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Talking with them would accomplish one thing: giving them time to finish.

Why the hell can't these supposedly bright people see that?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-02-18 15:15|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-02-18 15:15|| Front Page Top

#13 I maintain that bright people can see it, but that our media only focuses on those that can't - thus it becomes the buzz and hype that the those who aren't really paying attention parrot, thinking that it is what they are "supposed to say".

What amazes me most since the advent of the internet is discovering just how much news has NOT been reported. The media selectively ignores anything that doesn't support the democratic party, which I am beginning to believe is just an extension of organized crime. I really hope that someday someone will write a book that exposes exactly who owns the media and why this is so.

Posted by 2b 2006-02-18 15:23|| 2006-02-18 15:23|| Front Page Top

#14 The media selectively ignores anything that doesn't support the democratic party, which I am beginning to believe is just an extension of organized crime.

Some interesting guilt by association runs through the unions.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-02-18 17:24|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-02-18 17:24|| Front Page Top

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