Hagel is echoing what the bulk of the nation feels in the gut about Bush and what has happened under his administration. It feels like Hagel is winding up for some type of run and hopefully it's with Bloomberg. This country needs an honest and fair three party system to keep the two parties we have now more honest and focused on who they really are instead of attacking the other side.

I have to say I think George Bush has been one of our best presidents ever.

Support the troops!

Keep them there, wherever--Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran-- as long as it takes to win.

And support the defense of the U.S.

Stop democratic efforts to cut back on missle defense and leave us vulnerable to

subway bombers!

Susan Wood, you mentioned me, here in the War Room... I looked at your old posts... I think I love you!

Can I buy you a fair-trade chocolate soda over at How the World Works? Or a stiff, realistic Martini from Sidney B? Howz 'bout a Lutefisk at G. Keillor's?

Love me or flame me! [sigh...]

My dad grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, so I tend to listen when the Senator from Nebraska talks. It reassures me that Sen. Hagel has a firm grasp on reality. It doesn't win him any points with his current party, but he earns my respect. I only hope that he will see his way clear to support impeachment, before the clock runs out.

Why did Chuck Hagel vote for George Bush's program's 87% of the time-more than anyother republican? He sounds like a hypocrite to me.

It can't help in the "legacy" department when your own party has this to say about you. This gives me hope that history will be very truthful and very hard on the Bushies as we enter a new age.

I've seen many conservatives on CSPAN lately making negative statements concerning the current administration. These statements would have carried more weight 6 years ago. Coming now, during a lame duck presidency, they appear to be a Republican strategy of distancing themselves from the failing administration. Every effort should me made to force these people from their lifeboats and back onto the sinking ship. I will credit senator Hagel as a vocal critic of the war.

My God, did Rove really say that? (That Congress "forced" Bush into the Iraq war?) If so, it's worse than a ridiculous lie, it's a recycled lie that didn't work the first time, when George H.W. Bush whined that Congress "forced" him to raise taxes. Truth is, he was practically on his knees begging them to suggest the idea, so that he wouldn't have to take the blame for it. And the Democrats, trusting as always, did suggest it, and he then blamed them. But having promised to stand up heroically to them no matter how hard they pushed, President Read My Lips didn't look very heroic no matter how hard he tried to pass the buck. It won't work for Little George either.

Then why aren't you and your colleagues impeaching the Son of a Bush???? Huh Senator? Huh?

three years ago, more than half the electorate thought king g the w was 'our great war-leader, el maximo decider.' there were no mass rallies, calling for impeachment. still aren't, in fact. which means not only are the washington politocracy corrupt to their teeny toes, but the electorate are debased beyond participation in civic life.

the course of the (new) roman empire will parallel the old, fools succeeding monsters succeeding fools, with occasional generals bringing sanity to the management of the nation at whatever cost to personal freedoms.

can america return to the path of virtue? of course not. you were never on it.

Where were you when the members of this administration were in the trenches, bravely defending your freedom, anyway?

Two Purple whats? Bronze St...? Huh?

Oh well, I'm sure the NEXT Republican administration will be much, much better.

Hagel has been consistent in his criticism of the Bush/Cheney conduct of war and foreign policy for several years, more so than many Democrats. He was critical of the war before criticizing it was cool. The only recent change is that Hagel is now writing off the Bush Presidency as a whole. He's late to that party, but better late than never.

Sad to say, georgejr had plenty of "aiding & abetting" from Chuck Hagel as well as the rest of the Federal government. After having spent the past six years voting in favor the very policies he now deplores, "glass houses" becomes a fairly apt metaphor. Unfortunately, the same goes for many, many others (inclding the current Democratic congressional leadership), who have criticized, but complied....

Yet the current crop of Republican presidential candidates are running on continuing the Bush administration's policies.

What's that flushing sound I hear?

...would have been nice if he could made it a little clearer at the time. He sure didn't mind his policies that much, or at least not until very recently.

or his foreign-policy adventures, and has probably wanted to say this for a while, so this is no surprise. Still, it's always nice to hear the truth, even if it's a "duh" for the rest of us.

Yesterday or so, did you hear Karl Rove publicly blaming the Congress for pushing G.W. Bush into the Iraq war before G.W.B. really wanted to go?!

A bald-faced lie. In case you do not remember that far back, Bob Woodward documented the whole situation years ago, in one of his books. No doubt at all. The idea of Congress pushing Bush never even arose. And Bush let all the info out.

Hooray for Hagel! But most Republicans do not care about simple truth anymore. Simple lies serve them much better.

I thought the Council on Foriegn Relations was a body determined to form a North American Union? Perhaps Honorable Chuck Hagel is gunning for a job with the Illuminati?

better late then never?? doesnt work this time these people did not choose the best and brightest, they chose the loyalist and scared.