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Why the War Party Fears Hagel

wpqr Wrote: Dec 28, 2012 12:54 PM

Here is a further excerpt from the article. "Because computer modeling work is normally accompanied by physical tests of the components that go into a nuclear weapon, it would also buttress IAEA fears outlined in detail in November that Tehran is advancing its weapons research on multiple fronts". The question is, what is Iran trying to accomplish? What is their end game? Are they rational actors or a fanatical regime of "12th imamers" who are trying to bring on an armageddon? A war with Iran could have dire consequences, but a nuclear armed Iran could be catastrophic.

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Why the War Party Fears Hagel

In the fortnight since Chuck Hagel's name was floated for secretary of defense, we have witnessed Washington at its worst.

Who is Chuck Hagel?

Born in North Platte, Neb., he was a squad leader in Vietnam, twice wounded, who came home to work in Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign, was twice elected U.S. senator, and is chairman of the Atlantic Council and co-chair of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

To The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol, however, Hagel is a man "out on the fringes," who has a decade-long record of "hostility to Israel" and is "pro-appeasement-of-Iran."

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