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Votes against d. Executive Departments of the United States. Chuck Hagel incumbent. Total Votes. By Dan De Luce. December 18, , AM. Deferring decisions While Hagel preferred smaller meetings and one-on-one phone calls, the White House often summoned him to large Situation Room sessions with last-minute agendas sent out overnight or on the morning of the meeting.

But events have vindicated his remarks, he said. The White House grew deeply frustrated with Hagel over the delays. November 11, , PM. Blame Brussels. Trending 1. Fiona Hill: U. The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan Stalin Did Shares. Latest Analysis. Andrew Connelly. Or are they? The Month in World Photos.

Trending Fiona Hill: U. Analysis Jeffrey Wilson. Argument Ward Wilson. Morning Brief Colm Quinn. You can support Foreign Policy by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe Today. They're inconsequential. And that's not the way the Constitution is supposed to work.

That's not the way it does work. Article 1 of the Constitution is the Congress is supposed to be three co-equal branches of government. Now, the United Nations has said it was a violation of human rights.

He was a member of a standing foreign nation, sovereign nation's government. And so the United Nations already said it was illegal and that it was a hit that violated human rights. He's an enemy of the United States. I mean, there is a strong case to be made for that. But the point is that it was a targeted hit, very targeted. Plus, the other part of this, it doesn't get a lot of attention, it's getting attention in Iraq, and that is the other general that was killed alongside Soleimani, [was] an Iraqi.

And he was killed on Iraqi soil. The United States is supposed to abide by the agreement it has with the Iraqi government that the Iraqi government would sign off on any combat actions and missions that the United States would take. Well, that obviously didn't occur. On the Trump administration saying it wants to de-escalate the situation. I see nothing but escalation. I mean, you're sending more than 4, more troops over there. Since the turn of the century, Hagel has followed a curvy path of political alliances that puts his endorsements all over the map.

Hagel's record of picking politically unpopular positions could be a large part of why Obama is naming him for the job, as Slate's Fred Kaplan surmises the next Defense secretary will be faced with tough choices. In , he was one of few Republican senators to back Sen. John McCain over then-presidential-candidate George W. After that election, Hagel fiercely criticized Bush for adding 30, surge troops to Iraq, in place of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group's proposal of a draw-down and regional diplomacy, which Hagel preferred.

When Bush instead announced that more troops would go to Iraq, Hagel co-sponsored a nonbinding resolution to oppose it, along with then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. You can impeach him, and before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment. I don't know. It depends how this goes. Hagel's fierce opposition to America's involvement in Iraq — he called it one of the five monumental blunders of history, on par with the Trojan War — will be of substantial importance as the Obama administration charts our course out of Afghanistan, deciding how to withdraw the last of the troops in and how much of a presence to leave behind.