Chuck Hagel said...

Oh, this is beyond anything that we've seen. So we must prepare for everything and the only way you do that is you take ...

Because I had the responsibility and I play my own game here. And that is because by law, I am the one official in gover...

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

Did we not anticipate this? ... it is likely that, specifically, ISIL may well take territory in Iraq.