Hagel Rips Bush, Rice on Iraq

Not much to add to this statement by Chuck Hagel on Bush’s proposed escalation of the Iraq war, other than that I agree with him whole-heartedly.

“I have to say, Madam Secretary, that I think this speech given last night by this president represents the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam,” Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said of Bush’s plan to add 21,500 troops to secure Baghdad in concert with Iraqi forces. “If it’s carried out, I will resist it.”
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“It’s, first of all, in my opinion, morally wrong. It’s tactically, strategically, militarily wrong. We will not win a war of attrition in the Middle East… Madam Secretary, we’ve been there almost four years, and there’s a reason for that skepticism and pessimism, and that is based on the facts on the ground, the reality of the dynamics.

Other Republicans harshly criticized Rice and the Bush plan, including Lisa Murkowski, John Sununu, Norm Coleman, George Voinovich, and Richard Lugar.

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Posted by Matt Browner Hamlin
Saturday, January 13, 2007 at 2:34 am

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I sure hope Hagel runs for President. His foreign policy sense is needed to get us out of the mess our foreign policy has gotten us in.

Left by Charlie
January 13, 2007 at 12:34pm

[...] The Washington Post’s Shailagh Murray has a long look at how Senator Chuck Hagel’s profile has been dramatically raised by his vocal opposition to escalating the war in Iraq. Hagel has ripped the escalation both before and after details Bush’s decision to send an additional 21,500 troops was announced. Opposition to the Bush plan has given Hagel a platform to speak to the nation; or rather, the lack of any principled opposition by other members of the Republican Party has left a gaping hole that Hagel has stepped into. [...]

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