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Chuck Hagel: “When you set in motion the kind of policy the President is talking about here, it's very, very dangerous. Matter of…”

On the recordJanuary 30, 2007
When you set in motion the kind of policy the President is talking about here, it's very, very dangerous. Matter of fact, I have to say, Madam Secretary, I think the speech given last night by this President represents the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam. If it is carried out, I will resist it.
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Chuck Hagel
Republican · Nebraska

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Hagel criticized a presidential policy as a significant foreign policy mistake.

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