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McCain Hammers 'Dangerous' Hagel on Iraq

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February 1, 2013

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" The debate over the Iraq War was reignited on Thursday when Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took on Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel for his opposition to the surge of 2007.

McCain and then-Sen. Hagel (R-Neb.) were two of the most prominent voices debating the war at the time, with McCain backing the Bush administration and its neoconservative allies and Hagel part of the growing movement of dissent. And one of McCain's favorite parts of the Bush strategy was the surge, which sent 20,000 additional troops into Iraq."*

Chuck Hagel got the "talk radio treatment" when he was questioned by John McCain at his hearing to be the new Secretary of Defense under President Obama. His main qestioning was if the surge in Iraq worked. Did it? John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) and David Sirota (Salon.com) break it down.

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