Chuck Hagel
Chuck Hagel
Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel is an American politician who was the 24th United States Secretary of Defense for two years in the Obama administration. He previously served as United States Senator from Nebraska from 1997 to 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 October 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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They will continue to play a critical role here in the Middle East, and we'll find out what we need to find out.
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It would bog us down, it would further destabilize the Middle East, it would give Iran more influence, it would hurt Israel, it would put our allies over there in Saudi Arabia and Jordan in a terrible position. It won't be four years. We need to be out.
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The second question here is: Who is doing all of the fighting? This is also a societal issue. Should we continue to burden the middle class, who represents most all of our soldiers, and the lower-middle class?
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We should start figuring out how we get out of there. But with this understanding, we cannot leave a vacuum that further destabilizes the Middle East,
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Is this good news today? I think it is. But we have a long way to go,
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It's in the best interests of this country that we continue to keep some common sense and sanity in the process here, and we've got to remember that not only is all of America looking and hoping and wondering about the future of this country and our ability to govern, but so is the world.
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It's definitely in their interest -- certainly in the interest of this country, ... Americans and our allies across the globe must have confidence in our leadership. They must trust our processes. And that certainly includes our intelligence community's results.
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What's going to be critically important is this election coming up in December, which will, in fact, elect a permanent Iraqi government, a government that was not installed by the United States or outside forces, but the Iraqi people will elect that government,
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And you just don't go around doing the things that he's done and saying the things that he said and thinking that the Senate or the chairman with the jurisdiction of his confirmation is going to open up a hearing automatically. So he has to do some work himself and that work should be done directly with Chairman Helms,
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during a time when in fact we had a policy that was losing. And the members of Congress were interestingly silent and absent in asking tough questions. As long as I'm a United States senator, I will do everything I can to ensure that we have a policy worthy of these brave young men and women who are sacrificing their lives and doing the things that they do for this country. I don't think that policy is there today.
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To question your government is not unpatriotic -- to not question your government is unpatriotic, ... America owes its men and women in uniform a policy worthy of their sacrifices.
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To not question . . . is unpatriotic.
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Every ground squirrel in this country knows that it's going to be $50 billion to $75 billion in additional money required to sustain us in Iraq for this year,
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was a national tragedy partly because members of Congress failed their country, remained silent and lacked the courage to challenge the administrations in power until it was too late.