Hubris: Selling the Iraq War MSNBC Documentary Proves SecDef Nominee Chuck Hagel was Right on Iraq

"Powell walked into my office, and without so much as a fare thee well, he walked over to the window and said I wonder what will happen when we put 500,000 troops into the Iraq and come the country from one end to the other and find nothing. And he turned around and walked back into his office. "  -- Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell

As I was doing the background research for this article I ran across the Senator Hagel questioning of Condi Rice to be Secretary of State after General Powell resigned which shows one of the reasons some Republicans got in a snit at Hagel:  
After the questioning of Rice to be Secretary of State, Senator Hagel comments about voting for her confirmation:

But even after all of his disagreements with Dr. Rice, Senator Hagel told Gwen Ifill of PBS, ” I will support the nomination of Dr. Rice. She’s eminently qualified, well prepared. And I think she’ll be an excellent secretary of state.” Yes, this was after Dr. Rice lied to the American people about the weapons of mass destruction, which makes the Republican obstruction of Hagel even more ridiculous. 

In that same PBS interview, then Senator Russ Feingold said of Hagel, “I’m sitting here with a Republican, who had the integrity at hearings from the very beginning to ask the right questions… And you know what, we never got a good answer then. Senator Hagel tried; Senator Lugar tried; it was a bipartisan effort.” 

Hagel represents the truth about the unconscionable Republican foreign policy disaster of the Iraq war; the lie that must not be discussed — the lie the mainstream media whitewashed and ignored, while busily chasing after Benghazi conspiracy theories as if that will rehabilitate them for their failures. 

Hagel is the integrity and morality missing in the values bankrupt modern day Republican Party. 

His existence is a constant rebuke of their own failures. And that is why they hate him.
We do not have a Secretary of Defense right now because the Republican Party refuses to face their own failures and instead chooses to punish all reminders.

Transcript of video is available at Politicus

In the small minds of McCain, Graham, and Inhofe, Hagel had the audacity along with Lugar to question the Bush Administration on taking us into Iraq.  Hagel did not run for reelection in Nebraska in 2008 and Senator Lugar who also questioned what the Administration had done to get us into Iraq lost his reelection bid in Indiana in 2012 to a Tea Party hard right, loony, social conservative Mourdock who lost to Democrat Joe Donnelly who now represents Indiana in the Senate.  That should tell you all you need to know about Mourdock who was the twin to Akins from MO.

Turns out Hagel and Lugar were right which has earned them the disdain of Republicans and why we see so many lies against Hagel that can be easily refuted.  This one sentence from the article sums up the Republican Party:

Hagel is the integrity and morality missing in the values bankrupt modern day Republican Party. 

When you have so many Republicans willing to speak out against the war in Iraq as you see in the video from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, it makes you stop and think.  After reflecting on the outstanding documentary by Maddow, thoughts I had at the time of the Iraq War come back.  My husband who was part of the government/defense industry complex at the time wasn't sure we made the right decision as we were already fighting in Afghanistan and had brought Saddam to his knees due to the no-fly zone and embargo.  Can remember him saying as an Marine forward air controller which went back years, it was a mistake.  Turns he was right.  So many people we knew at the time didn't understand why at that point in time we were going into Iraq and ignoring Aghanistan for the most part.

Why didn't the Bush Administration pursue Bin Laden to kill him as the head of the snake known as the Taliban?  Instead they chose to go into Iraq?  Why?  Cheney went from being against taking out Saddam after the 1st Gulf War, to going to work for Halliburton, to becoming VP and a hawk along with Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz to take out Saddam.  Connect the dots.

The key point to all of this is why do you forge documents, get info from the CIA which Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz changed to fit their narrative to go into Iraq and take out Saddam immediately not wait him out?  What was going through the heads?  Is this the neocon way that our soon to be new Secretary of Defense Hagel warns about their desire for perpetual war?

Hagel represents the truth about the unconscionable Republican foreign policy disaster of the Iraq war; the lie that must not be discussed — the lie the mainstream media whitewashed and ignored, while busily chasing after Benghazi conspiracy theories as if that will rehabilitate them for their failures.

After this documentary, would bet more information will be forthcoming over time on why we went into Iraq while we were fighting the war in Afghanistan against the Taliban.  IMHO further information will only serve to back up even more what Chuck Hagel, Richard Lugar, and others have been saying about the scam that was the Iraq Invasion.