President Obama’s nominee for secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, received a resounding vote of support today from a fellow Republican moderate, Colin L. Powell, who said Mr. Hagel, a former senator from Nebraska, was “superbly qualified” to lead the Pentagon.
“I think he will make a very, very spirited defense of his position – and I think he’ll be confirmed,” Mr. Powell, a former secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on the NBC News program “Meet the Press.”
Republicans have been criticizing Mr. Hagel since his name began circulating as the possible nominee, and the criticism continued on the Sunday morning political talk shows.
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I received a letter from several Roshei Yeshiva urging us to contact our U.S. senators in opposition to the Hegel nomination.
This is the guy who won the First Gulf War and saved Israel from Saddam’s Scuds. Maybe we should pay some attention.
This Powell is such a double talking back stabber! He should be shunned by any sane person!
He did not win that war; our armed forces (army, navy, air force…) did.
Actually, Hashem did!
In the past, Powell learned Yiddish. Someone ought to tell him off in mamaloshon.