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The Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and elsewhere, and should not be demonized or condemned for disagreeing with them, ... Suggesting that to challenge and criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democratic, nor what this country has stood for over 200 years.Chuck Hagel
The law says you can do this and not do this, and so you just technically interpret every dynamic of that, and everything between going to jail and staying out of jail is free game, ... I don't think that's the answer.
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