QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 14, 2007 -> 12:41 PM)
This information is misleading to say the least...
One, if you want to quote those highlights form the article, let's show them all from that section you chose:
Two, the one-sentence quote you used about his conservative credentials is not reflective of that article as a whole. I advise people to read the whole thing and take it in. As the rest of the article makes clear, he is certainly a conservative, but he is not even in the vicinity of a party hard-liner.
Well, the point I was trying to make was that he makes plenty of public statements that the media loves to highlight saying that Bush is doing things wrong on Iraq, but then he still votes with the President. The reason I left off most of the parts about things Hagel said was that I sort of figured that everyone had already heard him talking about the war, but people might not have followed his votes, that I contend go in the opposite direction.
Hell, Hagel voted with the Republicans to filibuster his own compromise legislation in the Senate that would have allowed the Senate to even start to discuss the Iraq war, just a month ago.