We blundered into Iraq because of flawed intelligence, flawed assumptions, flawed judgments, and ideologically driven motives. We must not repeat these errors with Iran, and the best way to avoid them is to maintain an effective dialogue.
Hagel emphasizes the importance of dialogue to avoid past mistakes with Iran.
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When you have a national leader, our national world leader, who has left dignity behind, decency behind, honesty, integrity behind them, that's where you start.
Well, first recognize that we have a problem and then start addressing the problem, locally, nationally, globally.
We are in a different situation today, in what the President has laid out to the American people as to what his objectives are.
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