First Gates, then Panetta, and now, Hagel, all Secretaries of Defense, all openly at odds with Obama's war policies in the middle east and Afghanistan, have left the WH.

Editor's notes:  with the article out of Washington,  below,  we learn of the firing of Chuck Hagel,  current Secretary of Defense.  Of course,  Obama will want you to believe that Hagel's dismissal was anything but a firing,  but we all know of H Obama's revenge oriented personality,  that he lies at the drop of a hat,  and that Hagel has been sharply critical of some of Obama's foreign policy decisions,  so Hagel is gone.

An anonymous source in the WH had this to say:  "This decision was not Hagels.  Make no mistake,   he has been fired."

Obama will never admit to this firing,  but such is the case, as Obama pretends the American people are not smart enough to understand his self-serving motivations and consequential lies.

You should know that the new "two year focus" in Iraq is all about Obama pretending to wage a war that he has no intentions of winning, and keeping Iraq off the front page,  as much as possible.   He is [back] in Iraq only because he was caught with his pants down,  as the New Al Qaeda,  the one he destroyed with the killing of bin Laden,  has gone into Iraq and filled the void Obama so ignorantly left behind. 

In the end,  Obama and his New Progressive/Socialist Party,  are on their way to losing three wars in eight years:  the Bush war in Iraq,  successful by all decrees until Obama came onto the scene,  Afghanistan,  an absolute joke of a was beginning with Obama's "righteous war" in that country,  to now,  and,  finally,  whatever in the world he is doing - again - in Iraq.

Understand,  when Obama's chief adviser comes from Iran  (Valarie Jarrett was born in that country),  when Obama, himself,  was schooled in a Muslim nation (Indonesia) for a period of time,  when he has publicly stated that he will not allow for insults against the founder of Islam,  you cannot expect anything other than a pretense war with Muslims.

Hagel is gone because Hagel expected Iraq War II to be a war with a fixed goal,  a war waged with victory in mind.  It is a lie to believe that it will take a decade or more to eradicate ISIS from that country.  The job can be done within a year.

"Smoke and mirrors" is what Obama is all about,  and that includes his continued deception as to his personal plans for this nation.  It is sad that an utter jerk with no experience and absolutely no common sense,  can get himself elected,  solely because he is black and well spoken.  Worse,  yet,   the man could not care less about the voice of the people and the verdict against his administration per the 2014 GOP landslide midterm elections.

You should know that the next Secretary of Defense will be confirmed by the new,  114th,  GOP controlled Senate.  With that in mind,  it is not clear that Obama will be able to replace Hagel with a "yes man."  That did not happen with his first three choices.  The GOP will demand a qualified appointee be confirmed.

Understand that a protracted confirmation fight,  will bring out Obama's failures and the harsh reviews of his three previous Secretaries of Defense.  Should be fun.

It's white knuckle time,  for the next two years,  as Obama and his Marxist buds hope to draw the GOP into making mistakes that will reverse the downward trends against the Democrat Party.

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down under pressure, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama’s Democratic majority in the Senate and a beleaguered national security team that has struggled to stay ahead of an onslaught of global crises.

The president, who is expected to announce Mr. Hagel’s resignation in a Rose Garden appearance on Monday, made the decision to ask his defense secretary — the sole Republican on his national security team — to step down last Friday after a series of meetings over the past two weeks, senior administration officials said.

The officials described Mr. Obama’s decision to remove Mr. Hagel, 68, as a recognition that the threat from the Islamic State would require a different kind of skills than those that Mr. Hagel was brought on to employ. A Republican with military experience who was skeptical about the Iraq war, Mr. Hagel came in to manage the Afghanistan combat withdrawal and the shrinking Pentagon budget in the era of budget sequestration.

But now “the next couple of years will demand a different kind of focus,” one administration official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. He insisted that Mr. Hagel was not fired, saying that he initiated discussions about his future two weeks ago with the president, and that the two men mutually agreed that it was time for him to leave.