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Article: [ Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska... ]
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 26, 2002
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Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, having just returned from
a weeklong fact-finding trip to the Middle East, addressed the
Chicago Council of Foreign Relations Dec. 16 and said out loud what
is whispered on Capitol Hill: "The road to Arab-Israeli peace will
not likely go through Baghdad, as some may claim."
The "some" are led by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. In
private conversation with Hagel and many other members of Congress,
the former general leaves no doubt that the greatest U.S. assistance
to Israel would be to overthrow Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime. That
view is widely shared inside the Bush administration, and is a major
reason U.S. forces today are assembling for war.