The Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and should not be demonized for disagreeing with them. Suggesting that to challenge or criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democracy. To question your country is not unpatriotic. To not question your government is unpatriotic.
Hagel emphasizes the importance of questioning government policies regarding the Iraq war.
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There is going to be some severe reckoning and review, and a top-down, break it all down and asking themselves, who are we? What do we believe in?
Because I had the responsibility and I play my own game here. And that is because by law, I am the one official in government charged with certification with release of detainees. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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There's a perception that it is the military's responsibility to fix the problem. Problems are not fixed by militaries.
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