Juan Cole - Top Ten Reasons Chuck Hagel Should be Secretary of Defense

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1. Chuck spoke the truth

4. Hagel opposed George W. Bush’s and the Neoconservatives’ ‘muscular Wilsonianism,” the idea that the US should invade countries like Iraq and impose democracy on them: Hagel said in 2006, “You cannot in my opinion just impose a democratic form of government on a country with no history and no culture and no tradition of democracy… We have not always connected those fundamentals to our efforts.” (- International Herald Tribune, March 17, 2006) Chuck spoke the truth about the iraq war and the right wingers will not forgive him.