(Video) Hagel calls Iraq a "grinder"

Earlier today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution that was sponsored by senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Ben Nelson (D-NE), which condemns the President's troop escalation proposal.  It will now head to the Senate floor for a full vote.

But before the resolution was cleared, Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), a member of that committee, gave one of the fiercest rebukes of Bush's war policy that any Republican has given to this day.  Watch this:

At the risk of hurting Senator Hagel by writing this, he might make the perfect Democratic vice presidential candidate in 2008 -- especially if McCain picks Lieberman, as it is rumored.

Comments

[The Mexican]

Yeah, Hagel had an almost Huey Long-esque aura about him when talking--one-part flamboyant with the arms moving all around; two-parts straightforward; and one-part populist demeanor.