I’m almost completely speechless.  If Chuck Hagel isn’t a man deserving of an “Exit Strategy,” I don’t know who is:

Think Progress ? Hagel: White House Originally Wanted 2002 Iraq War Resolution to Cover Entire Middle East

In an interview in GQ Magazine, Hagel reveals that the Bush administration tried to get Congress to approve military action anywhere in the Middle East ? not just in Iraq ? in the fall of 2002. At the time, Hagel says, the Bush administration presented Congress with a resolution that would have authorized the use of force anywhere in the region

Read the whole thing on Think Progress before continuing, it’s really short and fact-filled.  Crazy, no?  And here’s the piece de resistance:

Hagel: Still More:

Asked about his vote in support of the final Iraq war resolution, Hagel told GQ, ?Do I regret that vote? Yes, I do regret that vote.?

So, let me get this straight. 

1. The White House had balls enough to present a resolution before Congress stating that they had unlimited power to go to war with anyone in the region.
2. Knowing this was their ambition, you went ahead and rewrote the resolution to strip it of that language, only letting the rest of us in on the big joke just now.
3. You voted for this resolution knowing full-well their intention to widen the war if possible
4. Now, you say regret the vote.

You regret the vote? Where the hell do you get off saying something like that to us now, like that’s going to make anything better?  Anyone at all other than the three of you (Hagel, Joe Biden and Dick Lugar) can say they regret their votes and only seem foolish.  Your freinds and you are as morally culpable for the Iraq War and anything else that comes next as anyone sitting in the White House.

Joe Biden is dead to me.  Any other Democratic candidate I can either support or at least shut my mouth about.  But Joe Biden, that bastard that has continually shown up on news program after news program, acting like some “loyal opposition” politician, citing a need for oversight, all the while knowing that the president had a lot more on his plate than Iraq and telling no one. . . .  I will work my utmost to discredit him as a candidate.  I plead with any other bloggers who read this and care at all about justice for the folly of Iraq to do the same.  Google-bomb Joe Biden!

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