Chuck Hagel: Two purple hearts later, he still has no honor.

To see what an opportunistic scumbag looks like, click here.

To see why he is, click here. The key notion in the article is that Hagel is running for President in '08. By declaring that Iraq is akin to Vietnam (which is a ridiculous assertion on far too many levels to describe well here (see Christopher Hitchens for a general idea), Hagel is trying to distance himself from Bush's foreign policy. By having been a supporter of the war early, then a critic later, he hopes to position himself as a "tough on terror" Republican, but one who Democrats should like too because he wouldn't be 'irresponsible' like those pro-Bush hawks.

In short, Hagel acts in the hope of having it both ways to capture the centrist voting bloc for '08. As the article shows, he's not above screwing over the troops in Iraq by cutting out their legs on the homefront (the only way it's possible for us to lose in Iraq).

The irony of it all I suppose, is that the only way that Iraq has similarity to Vietnam, is that you have politically calculating weasels in Washington, D.C. doing all they can to lose the war for us.

From this point forward, Hagel won't have my vote for anything, least of all President.