Chuck Hagel actually said...

That particular decision that was made on the surge, but more to the point, our war in Iraq, I think was the most fundamental bad, dangerous decision since Vietnam.

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Hagel criticizes the Iraq war and the surge as a poor decision.

01/30/2013

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