Former U.S. Ambassadors Declare Unqualified Support for Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense

"And this is the backstory of the neocon lobby's pre-emptive strike on
Chuck Hagel. Their real target isn't Hagel. Their real target is
Obama. They want to bully Obama into backing off of any plans to
engage in serious diplomacy with Iran, and to effect this bullying
they want to make an example of Hagel."

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