New York Times Magazine profile of Chuck Hagel

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/magaz ... DpODi2uyMg

With a bluntness that seems habitual — and more than occasionally strikes fellow Republicans as disloyal — Senator Chuck Hagel started voicing skepticism about the Bush administration's fixation on Iraq as a place to fight the Global War on Terror more than half a year before the president gave the go-ahead for the assault.

It's really long, but quite interesting.