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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 08, 2008 09:56pm |
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| Category | Interview |
| Media | Magazine - Newsweek |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 9, 2008 03:55:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sen. Chuck Hagel on the war, the campaign-and his new book
By Seth Colter Walls | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Apr 8, 2008
When politicians write books, they usually provide the view from 30,000 feet: painting in broad strokes about American greatness, and writing in a reassuring tone about the challenges ahead. Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel is different. In his new book, "America: Our Next Chapter," Hagel not only takes a level view of the nation's toughest domestic and foreign policy problems, he suggests it may be time to scrap the two-party system altogether. Hagel doesn't just talk a post-partisan game, either: he's yet to endorse his party's candidate for president, John McCain, with whom he has disagreed over Iraq since 2005 (when Hagel compared it to Vietnam), and, more recently, over the issue of increasing troop levels. While preparing his questions for this week's congressional testimony on Iraq by General David Petraeus, the commander of that eventual surge in troop numbers, and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, America's point man for political progress in Iraq, Sen. Hagel spoke to Newsweek's Seth Colter Walls about the war, the purpose of hope in politics, and the unforgiving straitjacket of partisanship. Excerpts: |
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