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Hagel: US may need new political party

By ANNA JO BRATTON, Associated Press Writer Thu Mar 20, 3:55 AM ET



OMAHA, Neb. - U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel writes in a new book that the United States needs independent leadership and possibly another political party, while suggesting the Iraq war might be remembered as one of the five biggest blunders in history.

"In the current impasse, an independent candidate for the presidency, or a bipartisan unity ticket ... could be appealing to Americans," Hagel writes in "America: Our Next Chapter," due in stores Tuesday. The Associated Press obtained an advance copy.

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Hagel said that despite holding one of the Senate's strongest records of support for President Bush, his standing as a Republican has been called into question because of his opposition to what he deems "a reckless foreign policy ... that is divorced from a strategic context."

Hagel, who's been a harsh critic of the war since 2003, writes that the invasion of Iraq was "the triumph of the so-called neoconservative ideology, as well as Bush administration arrogance and incompetence."

The Vietnam veteran said he had hoped the lessons from that war would give the nation's leaders perspective before troops were sent to Iraq.
"To the astonishment of those of us who lived through the agony of Vietnam, these lessons were ignored in the run-up to the Iraq War," he writes.

Hagel said Vice President Dick Cheney and others "cherry-picked intelligence" and used fear to intensify "war sloganeering."
During visits to the Middle East in December 2002, Hagel said, Israel's top security officials asked, "Do you really understand what you are getting yourselves into?"

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"There is no strategy. This is a pingpong game with American lives," Hagel said at the time.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080320/..._co/hagel_book
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Welp, I have nothing to add atm.





editoh, far-rightwingnuts, man your Swiftboats! Launch all out attack!

I love it when Republicans tell the truth. God bless him.

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If the neocons hadn't taken over the party, I would probably be a republican! But as it stands, I am not even kind of a republican!

I am from Nebraska and Chuck Hagel is one of the most intelligent people in politics today. I would have given anything for him to have ran for the presidency and he would be a much better candidate than any other who ran this term. I would suggest anyone who hates republicans to learn about him because i am a republican and i align myself with him. HAGEL 2012!!!!!!!

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Please get out of the new one
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"There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
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-Bob Dylan, greatest singer/songwriter ever to live.

Than there was in the pillar on I95 near Philly. Some are still in complete denial however, even some who post here. Possibly some post here because they are lonely or politically insolvent?? Hagel is a jewel, we have younger Republicans in our area who actually are for the voters, Hard to believe I know, but it is a fact.

What in Gods name are you talking about?

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Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'."

"There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

-Bob Dylan, greatest singer/songwriter ever to live.

You have every right to be proud of the fact that your state produced an American such as Senator Hagel.

Than kyou ted, I am very proud to vote for and support him.

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"Your old road is Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'."

"There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

-Bob Dylan, greatest singer/songwriter ever to live.

but Happy Easter

seriously, i have no idea what you are talking about, crestwood.

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"Your old road is Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'."

"There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

-Bob Dylan, greatest singer/songwriter ever to live.