Hagel elisted when he was about to be drafted. He did not volunteer for Viet Nam. You lie again Mallcontent. He even wants the draft reinstated.

Lyndsay Graham is a war veteran.

Saxby Chambliss was a medical deferment and could not serve.

Jim Inhofe served in the Army in 1956-58.

Just a few easy finds.

I too enlisted and served during Viet Nam. I never came down on orders to leave stateside though.

Obama and Clinton didn't serve either. But one inhaled...the other said he didn't.

Obama Advisor on Hagel Hearing: 'Baffling and Incomprehensible'

An advisor to President Obama describes Chuck Hagel's hearing as, "somewhere between baffling and incomprehensible." The advisor made the comment to the New York Times.

The Times reports:

Dealing with Iran is complicated, but President Obama's policy on the question of whether a nuclear-armed Iran could be successfully "contained'' - the way the Soviet Union was during the cold war - is simple.

His answer is no.

But in the weeks of preparation for his Senate confirmation hearing to be defense secretary on Thursday, either no one explained that to Chuck Hagel, Mr. Obama's nominee for secretary of defense, or he forgot it. And so on his first outing, Mr. Hagel fell immediately into the trap that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and several other administration officials have complained about in recent years. He became the latest official to send what many inside the administration fear has been an inconsistent and confusing message to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, about whether the Obama administration would, if there was no other option, take military measures to prevent Iran from possessing a weapon.

"It's somewhere between baffling and incomprehensible," a member of Mr. Obama's own team of advisers on Iran said on Thursday night when asked about Mr. Hagel's stumbling performance on the question during the all-day hearing. The worry was evident in the voice of the official, who would not speak on the record while criticizing the performance of the president's nominee. For those who question whether the no-containment cornerstone of the Obama approach to Tehran is for real, or just diplomatic rhetoric, Mr. Hagel clearly muddled the message, he said.

I cannot believe that this hagel guy is seriously being considered as a Secretary of Defense for our country!  What the hell kind of death wish do the people that support him have?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiXTyDnA2TI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT_8u_Hcmfc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6MNWiLSeo

And mallcontent is defending him for exactly the same reason. When has "it" EVER shown support for a conservative, or even ANY Republican for that matter?