Michael Moore defends Chuck Hagel, rips Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol

Tangentially related: Pam's House Blend wonders how Hagel would react to DoD's recent bust by gay bloggers for blocking LGBT news and commentary while allowing access to anti-LGBT sites.

The prospect of a Hagel nomination has fostered the year's queerest political
alliances, with neocons attacking Hagel for being the homophobe that he is
and gay liberals like Greenwald defending him for standing up to AIPAC.

Glen Greenwald, who tweeted the following Moore post, added tartly: "Unsurprisingly, Bill Kristol believes telling the truth should disqualify one from govt jobs (keeping him eligible)"

Visit Moore's blog to read the entire post...

 I see you're mad that back in 2007 former Sen. Chuck Hagel said that we were obviously "fighting for oil" in Iraq. You explain this was "vulgar and disgusting" and "could be the straw that breaks the back of Hagel's chances" to be Obama's next Defense Secretary.
     Since you feel so strongly about this, I wanted to make sure you heard about four other prominent people who've said the same thing. (I should have mentioned them yesterday with the Chuck Hagel stuff, I apologize.)

1. "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." – Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, in his 2007 memoir. (Read about it here. Greenspan then lamely tried to walk this back, when he found out just how politically inconvenient it was…while admitting a Bush White House official told him "unfortunately, we can’t talk about oil.")
2. "Of course we should go to war for oil. It's like saying, you're going to war just for oxygen, just for food. We need oil. That's a good reason to go to war." – Ann Coulter, author, April 11, 2011. (Watch her say that here at 37:30.)
3. "Of course it’s about oil, it's very much about oil, and we can’t really deny that. From the standpoint of a solider who's now fought in the middle east for six years – my son-in-law's fought there for four years, my daughter's been over there, my son has served the nation – my family has been fighting for a long time." – Gen. John Abizaid, former commander of CENTCOM, October 13, 2007. (Watch Abizaid say this here.)
4. "We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil." – Midge Decter, author, May 21, 2004. (Listen here, at 35:55.)