Oh great.
Maybe he can run as an independent in 08 as the VP to McCain.
Than why did he vote FOR the war to begin with? They all had a a choice and they gave President Bush carte-blanche. Including the dims.
Thank ypu, Senator Hagel but I will trust Secretaty Rumsfield and the officers of our military to decide what and when we need to win in Iraq.
I rememberr too well the last time Washington made military decisions.
If the Generals wanted more troops, they would have gotten more troops.
This limp wristed POS should just keep his mouth shut, if he is only giving
his feelings as an example. It appears his next election cycle is in 2010. Lets not forget.
Hagel's comments are making me sick to my stomach. What a RINO. Feeding the leftist-media-panic-the-sky-is-falling-we're-in-a-quagmire flames.
This is just more of the same B.S. I see on the news.
Yes Hagel listened to Brent Scowcroft, who chummied up to Beijing right after Tianamen Square in 1989, who did not want to finish off Sadaam in 1991, who was more afraid of what would happen if the USSR broke up than he was of the USSR, and who insisted on Bush doing nothing in the Balkans.
Yes Hagel listened to the one "Republican" "adviser" who had always advised doing nothing.
Hagel's complaints based on Hagel's predictions of what will happen in Iraq are nothing other than setting his own marker on a "see I told you so" pointl, knowing that if he is wrong no one will remember he was wrong; because he was just trying to sound a "concern".
His "we did not send in enough troops to start with mantra" is right out of the Dims playbook, and he knows it.
If Hagel is so worried, then why is he mouthing off in public--thereby helping the very folks who WANT us to lose the Iraq war--the Democrats and the rest of the anti-war (actually anti-America) leftists.
Again, I ask.
How do the "deficiencies" that Sen. Hagel cites, translate into "losing" in Iraq? These incidents do present difficulties, true, but nobody EVER said winning would be an easy walk in the park. Should the US wind down and depart from Iraq prematurely, the situation in Cambodia, as that tormented land was turned into a vast killing field by Pol Pot, will seem almost pastoral in comparison.
Now is not the time to go wobbly, Chuck.
And to think people actually voted for this sniveling twit.
With due respect, Senator, none of your suggestions are worth a tin fart.
I respect Hagel's service, but he's clearly got "Vietnam syndrome" and he's being even less constructive than Medea Benjamin.
Hagel found out that being a "Ckicken Little" gets a lot of press.
More troops = more targets for Saudi scumbags.
Thanks for your input Chuck. We'll get back to you.
Middle Eastern nations should become more engaged, he said....
Ummm, aren't we already doing all of that...?
...but it doesn't help when administration officials criticize Egypt and Saudi Arabia for not moving quickly enough toward democratic practices.
And if 43 kept silent, you'd damn him for that, wouldn't you, Chuckie?
Gad, what a poseur.
First it was "Bush wants to restart the draft!". That stupid trick didn't work because it was obvious he never said that.
So next they said
Which was still stupid because there was obviously no need for more troops so now they:
over here: and then over here: (let's start the draft) See! They are calling for the draft!
over here: and then over here: (we need more troops) See! We need to restart the draft!
Can't be much of a military that is destroyed by losing 1,750 men. This guy's as bad as Durbin. Overheated and ridiculous.
While I can't stand Hagel (a McCain wannabe), I agree that we probably sent too few troops into Iraq.
The way this conflict is Vietnam like is that we are focused on not losing instead of winning. If we really want to win the WOT, we will probably have to institute a draft and raise the number of troops back to mid-80s levels.
It was a huge missed opportunity when, post 9/11, Bush urged people to "go shopping" instead of enlisting. It also didn't help that Rumsfeld wanted to keep the force small because (a) he wanted to free up resources for Modernization and (b) he believed the Army force structure was obsolete.
Fighting the war the way we are now is like trying to fight WWII with a 1930s force structure. Before all this is said and done, we'll probably need to occupy a large swath of the Middle East. Syria and Iran, definitely. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, perhaps. It would also help if we'd stop going soft on pseudo terrorist regimes (e.g., the PA, Hammas, and Hezbollah in Lebanon).
He makes me want to puke.
"Grim face"?
A drama queen as well.
Leni
Sen. Chuck Hagel addresses more than 200 Nebraska American Legion members in Grand Island on Saturday.
The American Legion members should have brought duct tape for his mouth. I'm sure this will be on terrorist TV in no time. How could they sit there silently while this clown is encouraging our enemies?