soc.veterans

"Sid9" wrote in news:FjVGj.25921$rC6.4258
@bignews4.bellsouth.net:

You want to deliver some NEWS to this newsgroup, Sid? Quote Hagel saying
anything positive about the Bush administration since the day he took office.

> In January 2007, Hagel openly criticized President Bush's plan
> to send an additional 20,000 additional troops to Iraq.
>
> He called it, "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder
> in this country since Vietnam, if it's carried out."
>
> Together with Democrats Joseph Biden and Carl Levin he
> proposed a non-binding resolution to the Democratic-
> controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which
> rejected Bush's policy as "not in the national interest" in
> a 12-9 vote....
>
> ...
> After an April 2007 visit to Iraq with Pennsylvania Democratic
> Representative Joe Sestak, Hagel expressed his belief that
> the occupation of Iraq should not continue indefinitely and
> defended Congressional actions to set a timeline for an end in occupation.
>
> In July 2007, Hagel expressed his intention to cooperate
> with Senate Democrats in voting for a bill that would set a
> timeline to get out of Iraq.
>
> In November 2007, he rated the Bush administration
> "the lowest in capacity, in capability, in policy, in
> consensus -- almost every area" of any presidency in
> the last forty years....
>
> ...he said, "I have to say this is one of the most arrogant,
> incompetent administrations I've ever seen or ever read about."
>
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