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Hagel: We need conciliators like Harry and Ike
Chuck Hagel has waxed eloquent once again in his on-going critique of the Iraq war. Senator Me said we need to be less militaristic in the war on terror and dialogue more with terrorist states like Iran and Syria.
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September 27, 2007(CNSNews.com) - Speaking at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law on Monday, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) said that the United States needed to take a less militaristic approach to the war on terrorism and make a greater effort at dialogue with Middle East nations.
“Until we get all the great powers involved in some way, we will find ourselves bogged down in the specifics of Iraq, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and other places,” he said. “We need a larger focal point than just ricocheting from crisis to crisis like this.”
The Bush administration, he charged, was determined to invade Iraq and ignored admonishments about doing so. “There was not a Middle East leader five years ago who did not tell the president to do what he did,” Hagel said.
The Nebraska senator, who emerged last year as the GOP’s most vocal critic of the Iraq war, criticized American Middle East policy for flying in the face of history and praised presidents like Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower for building “coalitions of common interest” after World War II that brought nations together.
Huh? Last I checked “Give ‘em Hell, Harry” ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb, a decidedly militaristic action which brought an end to the war with Japan, and Dwight Eisenhower was the Supreme Allied Commander who directed the great military campaigns that ultimately defeated Hitler and the Axis forces.
Truman and Eisenhower “won” their greatest battles by defeating the enemy–not withdrawing their troops.
Senator Me needs a history lesson.
The Hound
September 28th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
There was not a mideast leader that told Bush not to go to war in Iraq? Is that right?
How about Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon, Shimon Peres, and Ehud Barak? Everyone of them supported going to war against Hussein. Last I checked, Israel is in the Middle East.
And lets not forget: Hagel himself voted in favor of going to war in Iraq. So I guess Hagel ignored an admonishment or two.
THE HOUND
hipotecas
September 30th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Osama in Iran?
The Islamic Republic of Iran represents a clear and present danger to America. We are facing new threats, new capabilities, with very old and familiar intentions.
This is a regime whose leaders open official meetings with shouts of “Death to America.” This is a regime that has a long track record of murdering Americans, in Beirut, in Saudi Arabia, and in Iraq. Now this regime has acquired nuclear weapons capability.
Simply put, al Qaeda would not exist today as an organized force without the active material support from Iran.
Carlos Menendez
http://www.creditomagazine.es