Sen. Chuck Hagel after Bush's Speech On Jan.10

    Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NEB.):

"The speech given [Jan. 10] by this president represents the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam.We are projecting ourselves further and deeper into a situation that we cannot win militarily."

"To ask our young men and women to sacrifice their lives to be put in the middle of a civil war is wrong. It's, first of all, in my opinion, morally wrong. It's tactically, strategically, militarily wrong."

"[T]he fact is, the Iraqi people will determine the fate of Iraq. The people of the Middle East will determine their fate. We continue to interject ourselves in a situation that we never have understood, we've never comprehended [and] we now have to devise a way to find some political consensus with our allies [and] the regional powers, including Iran and Syria."

"To say that we are going to feed more young men and women into that grinder, put them in the middle of a tribal, sectarian civil war, is not going to fix the problem."

    Maybe if some of our president wanna-be Democrats had a spine and spoke out like Senator Hagel has, we might put an end to this shit!

 

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