Some Comments by Chuck Hagel:Viet Nam veteran andRepublican Senator from Nebraska
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Track:I Ain't Marching Any More
Many of those who want to rush this country into war and think it would be so quick and easy don't know anything about war. They come at it from an intellectual perspective, versus having sat in jungles or foxholes and watched their friends get their heads blown off.--2002Look at the deficits that have been run up... And Republicans have been in charge... We've been adrift in a sea of incompetence, with no fiscal responsibility.--Fall 2004The tough questions were not asked when we sent young men and women into Vietnam. Where were our elected officials then? Eleven years and 58,000 deaths later, we lost. I don't want that to happen in Iraq.--Fall 2004I have a responsibility to do everything I can to assure our men and women who are serving in uniform and their families that America has a policy that is worthy of their sacrifices... The deadly struggle for Iraq is not a video game that can be turned off until Nov. 2. War is not an abstraction... I know. I've been to war.--Fall 2004I don't think the federal government has any business in dictating what constitutes a marriage.--May 2005To question your government is not unpatriotic - to *not* question your government is unpatriotic.--November 2005I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.--December 2005Well, I didn't like what Mr. Rove said, because it frames terrorism and the issue of terrorism and everything that goes with it, whether it's the renewal of the Patriot Act or the NSA wiretapping, in a political context.--January 2006National security is more important than the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. And to use it to try and get someone elected will ultimately end up in defeat and disaster for that political party.--January 2006If [Cheney]'d been in the military, he would have learned gun safety.
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