Chuck Hagel actually said...

I've always said that Iran must not get weapons of mass destruction.

Hagel emphasizes the importance of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

01/30/2013

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Bilateral, never unilateral. Nothing was ever suggested on a unilateral basis to take down our arsenal. Negotiated, verifiable.

In the surge case in Iraq, we lost almost 1,200 dead Americans during that surge and thousands of wounded.

The reason that they didn't is because they were involved in negotiations with the Russians in the U.N.

I think the President is right to consider those.