Graham Opposes Hagel Nomination As Secretary of Defense

this is a good committee we got a good chairman we got a good ranking member I like my colleagues %HESITATION

is the times in which we live the Democrats going to get almost universal support by Republicans in the Republicans don't get almost no Republican support and

while how how is that well I you know John Kerry is a a good friend so as Chuck Hagel I find myself a disagreeing with senator Kerry on

occasion but I think he's in the mainstream of thinking I think you'll do a good job for the country I don't vote against nominees a very

often %HESITATION senator Obama %HESITATION me for use his standard I think we all be pretty good shape of your vote

just a lot no but we're not a at the end of the day is just not the one vote about the Iranian

revolutionary guard is a series of votes and statement that pain a unusually disturbing picture there's

the left lane and politics the right lane in the middle lane and when it comes to some of the Iranian Israeli Israeli

the series of statements just out one thing I mean I say dumb things everyday but it's a series of things a

series of votes an edge about him that makes many of us very unnerved about

press reports are true about our policy in Afghanistan where they have eight thousand troops left behind forty one percent below the commander's recommendation and

were telling the enemy will be down a thousand at twenty seventeen Afghanistan will fall apart in eighteen months the

next secretary of defense is going to have to deal with a world on fire and I just believe that the

testimony of senator Hagel was not reassuring I don't think he did come across clear and convincing that he understood our policies toward Iran in

the fact that you don't understand why and you can't clearly articulate the bad news for America for the Iranians get a nuclear capability sharply

holding presence accountable I join with the chairman and senator McCain and many others to look into the abuses of the bush administration when it came to interrogation techniques I

hope my colleagues on the other side will hold the Obama administration accountable for what I think was a complete breakdown of leadership when

it comes to being Ghazi we just can't investigate Republicans were going to have to hold both parties accountable and both presidents accountable regardless

of party so Mister chairman I you're a good chairman this committee will get over this aberration and we'll get back to doing business and

will find common ground on the I thought regarding sequestration I hope but the reason I'm voting against senator Hagel's nomination is

that there's very few people with his voting record when it comes to Iran and Israel they're very few people who have been this wrong about so many different things and

I cannot in good conscience support this nomination because I think is sin in the worst possible signal to our friends and

our enemies alike thank