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Chuck Hagel is 'willfully blind' about Iran

On March 2, 2007, Sen. Chuck Hagel delivered a speech at Rutgers University that has attracted more than its share of controversy. First, Hagel allegedly accused the State Department of being controlled by the Israeli Foreign Ministry in the Q&A after the speech (he disavows and does not recall those remarks). Next, the Daily Caller reported that Hagel was invited by Hooshang Amirahmadi, a candidate for the Iranian presidency approved by Iran's radical Guardian Council. While the source of the invitation and the allegations regarding the unrecorded question- and-answer session are certainly interesting, they're less interesting than the text of the speech itself , which demonstrates that Hagel is simply wrong about Iran. He's worse than wrong. To borrow a phrase from my friend Andrew McCarthy, he's willfully blind .In the speech, in which he supposedly demonstrates his grasp on the "complexities" of the Middle East, he says the following:Iran has cooperated with the United States on Af...

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