Chuck Hagel is being considered for the position of the Sec.
of Defense of the US. He is a former United States Senator from Nebraska. A
member of the Republican Party, Hagel was first elected to the Senate in 1996.
He was reelected in 2002 and then retired in 2008. He is currently a professor
at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. During his political career, Hagel voted
78.1% of the time with the Republican party.
Here is a picture of Hagel’s voting record (small example of
issues that should be important to many of us, regardless of our political
affiliation):
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Voted YES on prohibiting lawsuits against gun
manufacturers.
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Voted NO on background checks at gun shows.
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Voted YES on barring HHS grants to organizations
that perform abortions.
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Voted YES on maintaining ban on Military Base
Abortions.
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Voted YES on prohibiting minors crossing state
lines for abortion.
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Voted NO on expanding research to more embryonic
stem cell lines.
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Voted NO on expanding hate crimes to include
sexual orientation.
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Voted NO on capping of foreign aid at only $12.7
billion.
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Voted YES on requiring photo ID to vote in
federal elections.
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Voted NO on funding for National Endowment for
the Arts.
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Voted NO on factoring global warming into
federal project planning.
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Voted NO on tax incentives for energy production
and conservation.
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Voted YES for continued increase in aid to Israel.
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Voted NO for sanctions against Iran, opposing
even those aimed at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which at the time
was orchestrating devastating bomb attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq.
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Voted NO on to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist
organization
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Voted YES for Iraq invasion.
Chuck though has a major problem with Israel.
A deeper look at Hagel's record exposes a deep-rooted detestation of Israel far
outside the norm for average run-of-the-mill Israel critics.
Modern day anti-Semitism has taken a more
insidious form; this monster masks itself as legitimate criticism of Israel, with the
purported aim of advancing "human rights."
Old fashioned anti-Semitism is calling for the destruction
of Israel, old fashion anti-Semitism is calling Jews kikes. Denying the
Holocaust, that’s all that we are accustomed to as anti-Semitism.
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In 1996 The AJC asked senators to join a
statement against anti-Semitism in Russia that would appear during
then-president Boris Yeltsin’s visit to the United States.
Harris, the President of AJC says “We
published the letter as a full-page ad in the New York Times with 99 Senate
signatories. Only Sen. Hagel’s name was absent.”
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Hagel's 2006 libelous reference to the so-called
"Jewish lobby," raising the old anti-Semitic canard -- very big in
the Arab world and among Nazi conspiracists -- of rich, powerful Jews influencing
Washington and American policies. He didn’t call it Israel lobby, he called it a
Jewish lobby. Almost 50% of Jews are not
Israeli.
As a Democrat, would you be comfortable
with him as a Secretary of Defense?
As a Republican, would you be comfortable
with him as a Secretary of Defense?
