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December 24, 2012

Chuck Hagel's Critics Are Living in Denial

Alon Pinkas, Al Monitor

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Even by the ugly and depressing standards of Washington's [un]civility and character assassination as a beltway hobby, the recent attacks on former Senator Chuck Hagel seem venomous and iniquitous.

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