Chuck Hagel said...

I was against it. I thought the Bush administration had not defined a clear end state for the war in Iraq.

Hagel reflects on his opposition to the 2007 Iraq surge.

01/30/2013

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I can assure you, Senator, that any commitments we made, in contracting or anything else, we will follow the law clearly...

It is up to the people of Afghanistan to make these decisions--their military, their new leadership that will be coming ...

I happen to believe, and I think the President has said it, that a political solution is the only viable solution.

the mission he has been tasked with is to degrade and destroy, not to contain, not to minimize, et cetera.