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Hagel Warned of Rogue Pentagon

The Washington Post reports:

According to an account that [Chuck] Hagel later gave, and is reported here for the first time, he told Obama: “We are at a time where there is a new world order.

“We don’t control it. You must question everything, every assumption, everything they” — the military and diplomats — “tell you. Any assumption 10 years old is out of date. You need to question our role. You need to question the military. You need to question what are we using the military for.”

The Post goes on to report Hagel’s private remark in 2011: “The president has not had commander-in-chief control of the Pentagon since Bush senior was president.” (Thanks to Business Insider.)

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  • cassandra

    Dr. Woods, please do not participate in rumor mongering. What Hagel did is more important than what he said.

    And the bottom line is what Dr. Paul said: Hagel voted for Iraq war, he voted for all the military budgets.

    I trust Paul more than Wash Post and Business Insider.

  • Anon

    Unless you are enslaved or prefer to be because you find this easier than to rely on yourself, then Dr. Paul is not the bottom line! You should be your own bottom line. You should develop critical thinking skills and make your own independent decisions/opinions versus what your party leaders/advisors tell you to do/think.
    fyi – Dr. Paul also raised Rand. (Do you want to head that route?)

    First, trust yourself.
    Second, trust yourself more than Dr. Paul or Tom Woods or any media.

  • Anon

    Funny how Hagel often says word for word exactly what Ron Paul says.

    Why is Soros heading a denuclearization fund? Wonder what he is up to – everything attached to him is a disaster greater than imaginable.

    I like what Hagel says, except his disregard of Islamists who clearly say their guidance/goals come from the koran by making up a false reason that their violence is due to despair (likely alluding to US policy).

    Just like they stuck a family member Benton to be the robotic puppet head for Ron/Rand to make a point, perhaps they are using Hagel in the same respect?

    Regardless, it doesn’t matter who is in that role as the same exact thing would be done, according to the will of Obama’s posse.

  • Evgeny

    *Why is Soros heading a denuclearization fund?*
    Can you list one reason “why not”?

    *everything attached to him (Soros) is a disaster*
    I don’t think so. He managed to run very nice projects in Russia I believe effect was very positive.

  • Anonymous

    There is nothing wrong with trusting people found to be trustworty, so long as you are willing to pull yourself away from them should they violate that trust. And most people don’t want to or cant invest enough time to be fully educated on their own in regards to these matters.

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