Republican Senator Blasts Bush
Nov. 16, ABC News: In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations on Tuesday (11/15/05), United States Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) criticized the Bush Administration for its recent pushback against Iraq war critics.
"The Bush Administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and elsewhere and should not be demonized for disagreeing with them. Suggesting that to challenge or criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democracy, nor what this country has stood for, for over 200 years," Hagel said.
During the question and answer period that followed his speech, Hagel warned that "there will be consequences . . . if the Bush Administration continues to demonize critics of the Iraq war . . . The American people will not put up with that," he said.
In a departure from Republican orthodoxy, Hagel said the United States "should begin drawing down forces in Iraq next year." # # #
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"The Bush Administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and elsewhere and should not be demonized for disagreeing with them. Suggesting that to challenge or criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democracy, nor what this country has stood for, for over 200 years," Hagel said.
During the question and answer period that followed his speech, Hagel warned that "there will be consequences . . . if the Bush Administration continues to demonize critics of the Iraq war . . . The American people will not put up with that," he said.
In a departure from Republican orthodoxy, Hagel said the United States "should begin drawing down forces in Iraq next year." # # #
