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yes- Michelle could do a study of MRE's and cut the carbs, fat and sugar. She would turn our armed forces into a lean, mean fighting machine.

Do not criticize the emperor or you will be fired too!

I think Michelle Obama should be our next Secretary of Defense. She would make a great leader of the military, don't you all agree?

Some people have been brainwashed to live in fear of that upstart president ! They want to go back to the Bush years of perfection !!

Ah, leave it up to WND (Wing Nut Daily) to save the day, huh, Alonzo?

YOUR SOURCES ARE WORLDNETDAILY AND AN UNKNOWN BLOGGER? IS THAT IT?

Indeed one of the few times that Hagel dared in public (or probably in private) to talk back to the president, he earned the ire of Obama and his loyalists for telling the truth. While Obama earlier this year was denigrating ISIS as the "JV team," Hagel was calling them an "imminent threat to every interest we have" and saying "This is beyond anything we've seen." As the Times drily notes, "White House officials later said they viewed those comments as unhelpful"�Washington code words for the fact that Obama's top aides were infuriated by Hagel's truth-telling.

The immediate question is whether Obama will be able to stomach a stronger personality in the secretary of defense job�someone like Bob Gates or Leon Panetta. If so, Michele Flournoy or Ash Carter, both of whom served at the Pentagon earlier in the Obama administration, could fill the job description. But if Obama were truly intent on a radical break with some of his failed policies he would opt for a true outsider like Joe Lieberman or David Petraeus or John Lehman.

Regardless of who fills the job at the Pentagon�or for that matter at State�the reality remains that in this administration all critical decisions are made in the White House by the president with a handful of loyalists who have little independent standing, knowledge, or credibility in national-security affairs. This has been a problem ever since the raid to kill Osama bin Laden, the point at which Obama stopped listening to independent advice and started acting on his own ideological worldview predicated on downsizing the American armed forces and retreating from the world.

If this were a parliamentary system, Obama would long ago have lost a vote of "no confidence" and been forced to step down. But because it's a presidential system he will remain in power two more years. The firing of Hagel will be a positive step forward only if it signals a complete rethink of the president's foreign policy a la Carter's conversion to become a born-again hawk after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iranian hostage crisis.

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http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/...ve-nation/

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MILITARY COUP LOOMING?

NOW WILLIE, LETS SEE IF YOU ANSWER THAT OR RUN AND HIDE.

Secretary of defense. See who Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice nominate?

How long before the remaining joint chiefs speak up to save the country?

Pretty clear that Obama's nominees, for Atty General, and now Sec. Def., gonna go nowhere.

Obama's next two years will be increasingly lonely.