US Senator Chuck Hagel on the Iraq war issue

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US Senator Chuck Hagel (REPUBLICAN - NEBRASKA ) -- a decorated Vietnam War veteran -- is clearly positioning himself as the peace candidate on the Iraq War issue. Appearing Sunday on ABC's This Week, here is what Hagel said: "Stay the course is not a policy. Part of the problem that ... we have no measurement for progress, for success. And so I think, by any standard, when you analyze two and a half years in Iraq where we have put in over a third of a trillion dollars, where we have lost over 1,900 Americans, over 14,000 wounded, electricity production [is[ down, oil production [is] down -- any measurement, any standard you apply to this -- we're not winning ... The reason that I don't think more troops is the answer now is ... because we are locked into a bogged-down problem not dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam. The longer we stay, the more problems we're going to have. The more occupying force dynamics flow into this, the more influence of the outside people, as well as the inside people are going to hurt this country."

michael mccafferty comments:

US Senator Chuck Hagel has the courage to say what he did about the situation in Iraq.
Chuck Hagel is a Viet Nam war hero and a genuine American patriot. I respect and admire him for what he has said about Iraq.