Speaking of HUBRIS, This is the Reason WHY Republicans HATE Chuck Hagel

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17. That article claims he opposed the war at the start, but he supported it and voted for it...

That article says "Speaking of Republican hubris, Chuck Hagel was one of the few elected officials on either side of the aisle who had the courage and conviction to speak his mind in the lead up to the Iraq invasion and after it."

23 US Senators and 150 US House Members actually voted NO on the Iraq War Resolution, it was those No voters who had the courage to speak up and to take the right action, who had the discernment to say No to the invasion. Hagel voted Yes. How that makes him 'one of the few' I don't know, he was with the majority, a Yes vote on the war, thought there were WMDs.
He also voted to confirm Condi Rice. There was some rhetoric, then he voted that he thought in his wisdom that she should be Sec of State.
His actual voting record and actual actions do not fit the narrative his boosters want to push. Hagel did not criticize the war he voted for until years of horrors made the error obvious to many other Republicans, such as Andy Sullivan, who called war protestors every name in the book then later muttered 'they were right'. When it mattered, Chuck was with his Party, the Republican Party, in every way and on every issue.