OMG: Novak Gets It Right In Interview With Hagel: "Iraq Is Coming Undone-Regime Weaker By The Day"

[kpete]

Over a dozen years, I have had many such conversations with Hagel, but not for quotation. This time, I asked him to go on the record about his assessment of what the "surge" has accomplished. In language more blunt than his prepared speeches and articles, he described Iraq as "coming undone," with its regime "weaker by the day." He deplored the Bush administration's failure to craft a coherent Middle East policy, blaming the influence of deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams.

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What about claims by proponents of the Iraqi intervention that failure to stop the terrorists in Iraq will open the door to them in the American homeland?

"That's nonsense," Hagel replied. "I've never believed that. That's the same kind of rhetoric and thinking that neocons used to get us into this mess and everything that Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith and the vice president all said. Nothing turned out the way they said it would."

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"So," said Hagel, "when I hear people say, 'Well, if we leave them to that, it will be chaos' -- what do you think is going on now? Scaring the American people into this blind alley is so dangerous."

more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/29/AR2007042901562.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

[Rosemary2205]

1. Novak can go lick a dog's butt for all I care.

That douchebag helped us get into this mess.

[Atman]

2. Novak IS a dog's butt.

Sorry...that sub line shows insensitivity to dog's butts. My bad.

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[Toots]

3. So what did Novak get right? The quotes were from Hagel

The Bush* Cabal has been wrong on every single thing they have said and done, why should we believe anything they say now?

[TwilightGardener]

4. "Scaring the American people into this blind alley is so dangerous"--

Well said, Chuck! I am impressed that he is calling out the neocons BY NAME, especially Cheney--he is basically saying Cheney has been discredited. Hope my Senator stays off of small planes and checks his brakes every day...