.....it is just that Hagel is totally opposed to everything about this war I think...many here on FR call him a RINO but if you look at his voting record, he is more conservative then 70% or so of the Repub Senators...in fact he is very conservative on most issues....but not on this war for sure....or how it has been run.....
When then the hell with him. History remembers how the men of the Civil War era stood on the question of preserving the Union, not tariff revision.
I'm sure that there were some Royalists who were good on tax cuts during the Revolution too.
As far as I'm concerned, the war is a make or break issue. If you're for the war, you're on my side. If you're not, you're on the other side. I'd side with a pro-war gay pot-smoking hedonist (an American Pim Fortyun, if you will) before I'd stand alongside some of these anti-war "conservatives."
To paraphrase Abe Lincoln - All Congrees critters who atively work to undermine the war are saboteurs and deserve to be exiled or hanged.
If this happens, America's and its Soldiers will get a Stab in the Back!