Robert Novak on Chuck Hagel:
By on Apr 30th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Robert Novak on Chuck Hagel:
“Over a dozen years, I have had many such conversations with Hagel, but not for quotation. This time, I asked him to go on the record about his assessment of what the ’surge’ has accomplished. In language more blunt than his prepared speeches and articles, he described Iraq as ‘coming undone,’ with its regime ‘weaker by the day.’ He deplored the Bush administration’s failure to craft a coherent Middle East policy, blaming the influence of deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams.”
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The criticalthinker cannot take the 9-11 lie any longer!
I once saw an episode of Columbo where DISPROVED that man died of natural causes, because his shoe laces were not tied from the man’s perspective, but from the perspective like that of a mother tying a child’s shoes, therefore no spin doctor nor lying expert can convince CRITICAL THINKING people that the man tied his own shoes before dying.
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The 50 micron 45% silicon fine powder in the above link DISPROVES that the WTC was demolished by gravity energy, because there is no other way than explosive energy to created such a fine silicon powder from intact concrete and glass in the less than 15 seconds that the WTC towers went from whole to pieces, therefore no spin doctor nor lying expert can convince CRITICAL THINKING people that the WTC was demolished by gravity energy.
Everyone is familiar with shoe TYING, so the DISPROOF cannot be ignored, while only people educated in engineering such as myself are familiar with material MILLING, so the DISPROOF is ignored.
If you go to an engineering school or concrete manufacturer and watch them fail concrete an INTACT piece of concrete, you will notice that it breaks into sand sized particles, and in order to turn it into a 50 micron fine powder you would have to MILL those particles.
Even if you drop concrete from 30,000 jet crusing altitude, it will still fail into sand size particles, just like you cannot make flour from wheat kernels by dropping them off a tall building!
Even if you put more tha X pounds of weight on a cubic inch of concrete that has a compression strength X pounds per inch, it will still fail into sand size particles, just like you cannot make flour from wheat kernels by setting them under a heavy rock!
The reason you cannot make fine powders simply by dropping material, is that the material’s collision with the ground results in the small particles recoiling upward instead of them being breaking into smaller and smaller pieces, no matter how much FORCE they hit the ground with.
The reason you cannot make fine powders simply by setting weight on material, is that the surfaces are not perfectly even, so small particles lay in the hills and the valleys between the surfaces, therefore they CANNOT be broken into smaller particles because NO FORCE is being applied to them, no matter how much FORCE is being applied to surfaces.
MILLING can be done by the scraping of abrasives which chew off one fine powder particle at a time, or done by the crushing of surfaces that are SMOOTHER than the desired fine powder particle size.
Since the environment in the demolished WTC towers was not like a MILL, and MILLING always takes more than 15 seconds to generate an appreciable amount of fine powder, WE KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THE 50 MICRON 45% SILICON FINE POWDER THAT IS GIVING THE FIRST RESPONDERS SILICOSIS LUNG DISEASE HAD TO BE CREATED BY EXPLOSIVES, BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER WAY FOR THAT POWDER TO BE CREATED IN THE TIME AND ENVIRONMENT OF A DEMOLISHING WTC TOWER.
I will give my house, car, money, clothes, and every worldly possession to the first person lying expert or otherwise who can turn an intact piece of concrete or glass into a 50 micron fine powder in less than 15 seconds without explosives, even though they would not need my money, because they will have won a Nobel prize and would have a zillion dollar patent for making milling obsolete!
So if you choose to believe the official LIE, and ignore the TRUTH that the WTC towers were brought down with explosives, by IGNORING the IRRFUTABLE evidence that the critical thinker has given you, it simply means your emotions overrule your logic, and your psyche cannot handle the ramifications of this IRRFUTABLE evidence, so you close your eyes and keep believing that it was not an inside job when the evidence OBVIOUSLY says otherwise to CRITICAL THINKING people like Columbo.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:13 pmNovak has become awfully cute and cuddly as of late with the anti-war crowd, methinks……..
April 30th, 2007 at 3:13 pmQuick! Rush a gallon of Repuke Nanoprobe Koolaid to the WaPo right away!!
Novak has gone off the talking points!!
April 30th, 2007 at 3:15 pmBut the Democrat Congress supports a “Surrender Date” and is “Waving a White Flag” to “Embolden the Enemy.” Nancy Pelosi is trying to “Micromanage the War.” How can Democrats Confirm General Petraeus But Oppose His Mission?” If they have their way, the insurgents will “follow us home.”
To see which Iraq sound bites are on – and off – the Republicans’ approved talking points list, see:
April 30th, 2007 at 3:15 pm“Mission Accomplished: 4 Years of GOP Iraq Talking Points.”
Hadley get control of your dept. Dayum!
April 30th, 2007 at 3:16 pmJohn McCain: On a Slippery Slope?>/B>
John McCain’s bid for the presidency has hit a low point just as the campaign trail is getting hotter by the second. His campaign’s fundraising is lagging behind that of fellow Republican hopefuls like Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. And recent events such as the Iran war song fiasco and the now infamous walk on the streets of Baghdad with a security blanket fit for a president while claiming the city was safe for regular Iraqis have had a substantial negative impact on his campaign.
As for McCain actually being able to get the Republican nomination, things are getting consistently worse for him. Consider this; McCain, who was once the frontrunner, now has just $5.2 million in the bank for his campaign. His closest rival Rudy Giuliani has $10.8 million and Mitt Romney has $12 million. This means that while his rivals are spending cash on prime TV and Internet ads like there is no tomorrows, and organizing campaign meetings all over the country, McCain will not be able to match their intensity. Add to this the fact that he is $1.8 million in debt compared to Giuliani’s $89,000 and Romney’s zero debt. Republican primary voters will take a serious note of his financial situation and see that the other two candidates are doing better.
Then there is the question of whether McCain is conservative enough. He picked fights with strong right-winger Jerry Falwell, calling him “an agent of intolerance.” Although the two seem to have patched up their differences — McCain was invited to speak at Falwell’s Liberty University’s graduation day ceremony — the episode did make conservatives weary of McCain’s ways. Also, his support for gay rights, his position on illegal immigration, where he supports the guest worker program, and the bill on campaign funding limitation he co-sponsored with Senator Feingold have added to the frustration of conservatives.
It is obvious in light of all the odds stacked up against McCain that he will have to fight hard to get the Republican nomination.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:19 pmWhen the Repukes use the word “surrender”, they are insulting our troops in Iraq.
When our troops leave Iraq (its not if, its when) they will NOT be surrendering. They didn’t lose a battle and hand over their swords.
So, the Repukes are insulting our troops. Whenever you hear them use the “S” word, remind them.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:20 pm“Republicans who are repelled by the Democrats personal attacks on President Bush.” Where were those sensitive souls when their party was trashing both Clintons 24/7? I didn’t hear a lot of members of the Republic party expressing their revulsion back then. And they were making a lot of it up!
April 30th, 2007 at 3:20 pmAh, Bobert. You just couldn’t write a piece without at least one slam on dems. From the article:
“Hagel represents millions of Republicans who are repelled by
but are deeply unhappy about his course in Iraq.”
No matter what, Mr. Novak, you are an unspeakable ass and have enabled the administration as much as anyone else in the MSM.
If you and Hagel are left with very unpleasant choices, you have only yourself to blame. Perhaps you should consider what is best for the nation, not just what is best for people with an (R) behind their names.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:23 pmIt figures Novak would get a cheap shot in at the Dems at the end.
But it doesn’t change the fact that Chimpy has screwed the pooch and even the Repukes are distancing themselves from him.
Novak still belongs in jail for outing Valerie Plame. What a traitor.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:24 pmHagel is very aggressive in print.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:26 pmnovak is a lot like woodward a weathervane. he’s a lot older and more set in his sludge so it just takes him longer to turn.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:26 pmWhat’s so incoherent about the policy? Pertpetual war at any cost. Sounds very coherent to me.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:27 pm“Republicans who are repelled by the Democrats personal attacks on President Bush.†CB -PK
I really don’t see many attacks on Bush, his cast and crew of hirelings however are casting quite the bad light, not the Democrats, per se. They are only commenting after the fact.
I think what the conservatives need to do is fess up to the fact, that in their zeal to change government, they have become corrupted by power.
The ends do not equal the means.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:28 pmComment by criticalthinker — April 30, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
I agree.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:29 pmNovak is merely preparing himself for the tidal wave that will drown the repugs in 2008.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:31 pmHe panders to the right wingnuts when he says they are appalled at the personal attacks on Bush (as if those attacks are not warranted) but he recognizes that if he wants to remain a columnist (and I wish he’d go away) he will have to state the obvious.
Novak ane Perle are but sideshow Bobs. They help to create a fog where light is very much needed. They put on an air of insider knowledge yet flop like fish on the waning tides, hoping to catch the next wave out.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:31 pmBob Novak is still a traitor and belongs in a prison cell or at the end of a rope.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:34 pmExtreme right-wing media maggots like Nokak are likely in for a very bumpy ride in the next few years. I would imagine they’re very busy trying to appear as moderates now, and will try and make peace with the people they’ve been shreding for years.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:36 pmNovak must be the next name on the DC Madame’s list.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:37 pmSounds like Novak is trying to shift blame to Abrams. How convenient.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:42 pmIs this news to Novak? Robert has his head so far up his butt that he doesn’t even know which day of the week it is if he thinks that this is something new?? Wow!
April 30th, 2007 at 3:53 pmBesides Novak, the traitor, was as complicit and involved in the intentional outing of a covert CIA operative as any of them but everyone felt sorry for him because he is a very sick man and they allowed him to slime off the hook. He’s a total “has been” and no one wants to hear from him at all. This man is totally broken – damaged goods.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:54 pm“Novak? this is your source…”
April 30th, 2007 at 3:55 pm“Yeah, whadda ya want?”
“I gotta leak for you….”
“Oh goody! Let me have it!”
(pause)
“Your breaking up, can you step out away from the building a little further, might help your reception, I really need you to get this…”
“How’s that? Can you hear me now?”
“Excellent, in fact, I can see you now, too, are you ready?”
“Ready as I’ll ever be, let her fly… where are you anyways?”
“On the balcony directly over your head… (zip)… here it comes…….”
Abrams is the latest scapegoat in the Iraq disaster?
I guess the years of failed initiatives and neglect of the reconstruction effort had nothing to do with that country “coming undone”.
Different names, same old tune: No responsibility is to be pinned on the Dear (mis)Leader. Somehow, it is always his henchmen who let him down. It’s never his policies.
April 30th, 2007 at 4:05 pmNovak must be the next name on the DC Madame’s list.
Comment by Shane
only if jimmy/jeff gannon/guckert was one of he employees
April 30th, 2007 at 4:07 pmRobert Novak on Chuck Hagel.
Given the Tobias awkward situation, my thoughts went to a very bad place.
I’m ok…..I think…
April 30th, 2007 at 4:13 pmSideshow Bob–LOL!!
I am visualizing Bob Novak putting his foot on a rake and getting hit in the head with the handle.
April 30th, 2007 at 4:18 pm…and then, with his hands over his bleeding nose, he staggers backwards into the swimming pool. Which hasn’t been filled yet………
April 30th, 2007 at 4:25 pmSideshow Bob Novak – in huge shoes and big green dreadlocks!!
LOL!!
April 30th, 2007 at 4:48 pmI wouldn’t vote for Hagel, because I don’t like his views on other issues, but I will give Hagel credit for speaking out against the war. He voted with the Dems on the Iraq Supplemental. It’s too bad he’s with Bush on so many other issues.
April 30th, 2007 at 4:48 pmHagel knows what he is talking about because He has Seen It All Before. 40 years ago, the “BEST and the BRIGHTEST” that were running the Viet Nam War KNEW that the war couldn’t be won. The people in both Viet Nam and America were against our being there. Yet Nixon and his phoney “Secret Plan to End the War” kept it going for another 6 years…bombing the Cambodians with more explosives than they dropped on Europe during World War II….and getting THOUSANDS of our soldiers killed. And in the end..the war STILL couldn’t be won. Hagel saw all this up close and personal. I admire him greatly for speaking out.
April 30th, 2007 at 5:12 pmAnother treasonous snake! er…two snakes, Hagel for saying it even if it is true and Novak for having the temerity to repeat it.
His royal highness will be beside his-selves (mustn’t forget the royal “we”).
Cry Havoc, and unleash the Dogs of Cheney!
April 30th, 2007 at 5:15 pmMarie,
I truly hope there is a “tidal wave” against the Republic666ans in 08, but never underestimate how stupid the American people can be, hell we “elected” him twice. Certainly claiming that we “elected” him is debatable but one thing is not he still got a lot of votes even after proving what an idiot he was in the first term.
Never underestimate how stupid Americans are.
April 30th, 2007 at 6:11 pmElliott Abrams… Elliott Abrams… he should have done jail time for Iran Contra and should never have been granted a security clearance! I think it is time for a “one strike” and you’re out forever law. Otherwise, the cabal goes on and keeps getting resuscitated.
April 30th, 2007 at 7:17 pmwhich gets me thinking… dems need to take Hillary off the table, because there had to be some Bush/Clinton understanding on Iran/Contra… which would have extended to gore/liberman… but not to Kerry/Edwards… quite obviously now this is all part of the same shadow Iran/Iraq Middle East policy with the same names and faces popping up over and over again.
April 30th, 2007 at 7:28 pmCan’t trash a man like Hagel with the back of one’s editorial writing hand so easy. The WSJournal editorial column has tried its best in the past few months…one I remember from a month or so ago basically pointed out that besides from the perspective of a kool-aid drinker – one for whom the GOP is the real team and not the USA – his points are largely unassailable.
So they suggested that he come out and announce his candidacy for President, so then they would have a knee-jerk reaction to go with whenever he spoke ill of the war or the President in public. Imagine that…”it really sucks that I have to work in this place and be handed an assignment to trash Hagel in some way…and the column space isn’t going to fill itself, so I’m going to reach out to the man himself and advise him on how he could make my job a whole lot easier.”
I’ve been a big fan of Hagel for quite a while now. A Democrat, but an Army veteran…the crossover happens once in a while when there’s someone within the senate who is an actual LEADER…imagine that!
Condoleeza Rice happens upon a “real leader†in the Senate today – Chuck Hagel
April 30th, 2007 at 7:33 pm