What's the plus side of Hagel? I'm not seeing it.

[Bluenorthwest]

64. Contrast with your view on other IWR Yes voters:

"Hillary Clinton was one of a handful of Senators who was given full access to the unedited CIA Iraq WMD reports before the vote on the Authorization for Use of Force, and she voted for it anyway. In my opinion, she was irresponsible and showed poor judgement. While she later said she regretted her vote, fully a year into the war....."
and so on.

I voted for Obama because of Hillary's war vote in spite of his homophobic preacher surrogates. I continue to think that those who voted for IWR were irresponsible and showed poor judgement, as you did back then. I do not keep separate standards for men and women, and I most certainly would never defend a Republican for that which I have castigated a Democrat.
Just saying. I could say about Hagel what you said about Hillary. I'd say it about her too. 'While he later said he regretted his vote, fully five years into the war....' and so forth.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021951295#post5

You again:
"Anyone who read the fricking Washington Post or NYT knew that the head of the IAEA was loudly disputing these claims, as were U.S. intelligence agencies, themselves.
Hillary is just as guilty of cherry-picking her intelligence sources as Douglas Feith or Richard Cheney.
If she has simply said, "I am persuaded by the Administration's version of the evidence", that would have at least been honest, and we probably wouldn't hold it against her so much. But this . . . what a weasel.
Thank you for reminding us of what she actually said, and why I feel so strongly that she's disqualified herself from consideration as the Democratic Candidate to be the 44th President."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4819473#4820820

The most distressing thing for me about the Hagel nomination is seeing that many DUers and others will gladly use rhetoric about war and peace differently at different times.
I agreed with you back then about Hillary, thus I can not as a consistent and honest person agree with you that the things which disqualified her in my view now qualify another to be in charge of Defense no less.