Former Senator Chuck Hagel (R–NE) will begin his nomination hearings before the U.S. Senate today. The Associated Press reported that if the Senate approves him, he will be the first Secretary of Defense to have publicly advocated that the U.S. get rid of its nuclear weapons, possibly even unilaterally.
In 2009, Hagel told Al-Jazeera, “How can we preach to other countries that you can’t have nuclear weapons but we can and our allies can? There is no credibility, there’s no logic to that argument.” He is also a co-author of the radical Global Zero report.
President Obama has not been as overt as Hagel, but he has made statements such as “we can already say with confidence that we have more nuclear weapons than we need.” On what evidence was this statement made? None, actually.
Read More at heritage.org . By Rebeccah Heinrichs.
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Perhaps Obama is trying to get his $4 million back for his ‘Peace Prize’ 12 days after he was in the Oval Office by nominating Hagel. Cause if Hagel gets rid of all nuclear stuff… that would be a feather in Obama’s hat.