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" The last time I talked to Senator Chuck Hagel was on February 8, shortly after the Senate of the United States had tried and failed for the first time to bring up a nonbinding resolution condemning the surge while expressing support for the soldiers sent to do it, effectively tying itself in knots trying to decide how hard it would gum President Bush around the ankles. Hagel had been criticized by some of his newfound fans for not finding a way to hit the president harder. &amp;quot;I think I&amp;#039;m pretty well invested,&amp;quot; he said, a rueful chuckle giving his words a grace note. &amp;quot;Nobody has been out there as far as I have.&amp;quot; And we talked, again, of how every part of a democracy, especially its citizens, has a responsibility to demand accountability from the leaders of its government, and how every part of this democracy, including its citizens, had failed in that duty over the past six years. &amp;quot;And, as I said, the ultimate sanction would be the impeachment process,&amp;quot; he mused. It was not a prediction, and Lord knows, it was not a course he was advocating. It was merely what could happen, after things went terribly wrong, and if everything worked the way it should. Read Charles P. Pierce&amp;#039;s April 2007 cover story on Chuck Hagel. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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