GOP Sen. Hagel: “Yes, I Do Regret” Voting To Authorize War In Iraq...

Eat The Press Rachel Sklar January 24, 2007 03:32 PM

In its first draft, the resolution the White House sent to the Senate when seeking Congressional approval for the war in Iraq would have given Bush the authority to send troops anywhere in the Middle East, Nebraska's Republican senator Chuck Hagel told GQ for its March issue....
Hagel:

Yep. He said, "That's what we're going to do." But the more I look back on it, the more I think that the administration knew there was some real hard question whether he really had any WMD. In January of 2003, if you recall, the inspectors at the IAEA, who knew more about what Saddam had than anybody, said, "Give us two more months before you go to war, because we don't think there's anything in there." They were the only ones in Iraq. We hadn't been in there. We didn't know what the hell was in there. And the president wouldn't do it! So to answer your question--Do I regret that vote? Yes, I do regret that vote.

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