Harry Reid Files For Cloture On Hagel Nomination

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21. It's partly about Hagel. If the neoconservative movement which still rules the GOP's foreign policy

manages to send Hagel to defeat, they'll keep from power one of the few Repubs who says openly that the Iraq war was a terrible mistake and that spreading freedom-n-democracy in the middle east is a bad idea. This way, opposition to war becomes just a political and purely Democratic position, not a true national-interest position. They'll also make him a permanent ugly example of what happens when you disagree with the tactics or demands of certain...lobbies. Think anyone will ever step out of line again, even in the most mild ways? Also, of course, the war machine wants its $$$, and Hagel is a threat to that--he was known to be a pretty effective businessman. But hurting Obama is also a nice two-fer.