The growing number of republicans who are either voicing their outright disapproval of the President’s new strategy in Iraq or voicing caution is growing. The conclusion that some have labeled as “unpatriotic” if congressmen show their lack of support for the president in a time of war is absolutely hogwash. The last time I heard, this country is still a democracy in which we have the right to sensible debates. It seems as though republicans have lost the will and to some degree common sense when it comes to foreign policy.
However, there are those republicans whether it be those who are running in the next presidential election or those that actually common sense who are voicing their disapproval for Mr. Bush’s policy in Iraq. One of those congressmen is Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) who gave a very good assessment/remark during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting on the resolution against the surge of troops.
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I don’t think we’ve ever had a coherent strategy. In fact, I would even challenge the administration today to show us the plan that the president talked about the other night. There is no plan. I happen to know that Pentagon planners were on their way to Central Com over the weekend — they haven’t even Team B’ed this plan…. There is no strategy. This is a ping-pong game with American lives…. We’d better be damned sure what we’re doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more lives into that grinder…. and I want every one of you, every one of us, 100 senators to look in that camera, and you tell your people back home what you think. Don’t hide any more, none of us.”
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