Sen. Hagel: "All of our Arab allies told us" Saddam didn't have weapons of mass destruction

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342136,00.html

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HANNITY: The Republicans with earmarks. I think the biggest disagreement we have is going to be on the war on terror and as I was reading the book, it was making me mad. You talked about the president and weapons of mass destruction. You had one paragraph in particular. I'm thinking, wait a minute, Hillary made that argument. Ted Kennedy made that argument. John Kerry, Bill Clinton in '98. And we have evidence that he used weapons of mass destruction with dead children, the Kurds in the north. Why shouldn't we have figured that he still was pursuing those programs in light of how he treated the inspectors?

HAGEL: Sean, if you read both of my chapters on Iraq in my book, I go into some considerable detail.

HANNITY: I read them.

HAGEL: Number one, we should have allowed the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to finish their job, which I was told by the president he was going to do that, by other senior officials and many of our members of Congress were told.

We didn't do that. They were the only ones in there. They were the only ones that really knew it. I was told as I mentioned in my book by former prime minister of Lebanon, the late Hariri, that he had no weapons of mass destruction. All of our Arab allies told us, including President Mubarak of Egypt.

ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Senator, when the president said he would let the IAEA finish and didn't, did he lie to you?

HAGEL: Well, lie is a tough word. I have always tried to be responsible with my language. And I have never accused the president of lying. I would say this, that his administration certainly misrepresented, starting with the fact when we were told, many of us, including me, that this administration had not made a decision to go to war. At the time of the resolution vote in October of 2002, in fact, now we know that that is just not true.

COLMES: You don't want to use the word lie, that is a strong word. But that's what you are implying?

HAGEL: You can take any meaning out of that that you want, but I think — almost six years now after this, we have a pretty clear record of what they said and what they didn't say.

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1. Day late and a dollar short Chuckie

As usual.

Don

[magellan]

2. Hagel, you coward

Repubs are only reluctant to use strong words against their own.

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3. We have no Arab allies

Only potential future enemies. Just wait til Saudi Arabia has outlasted it's usefulness.

[The Stranger]

4. They always -- ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS -- back down.

WHY CAN'T HAGEL SAY WHAT EVERYBODY FUCKING KNOWS?

BUSH LIED BUSH LIED BUSH LIED.

Why can't Democrats just fucking say it?

This, if anything, is why the Democrats fail.