Meet Charles Timothy Hagel

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[url="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02230/"]http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02230/[/url]

The site includes a 2002 interview with Hagel. I never realized he had been through so much. After reading the entire transcript I can see where some of his ideas might arise from. Regardless of what has been said, this man has been through the wringer on more than one occasion during his tie in service.

[url="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02230/transcript?ID=mv0001"]http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.02230/transcript?ID=mv0001[/url]

A lengthy read but interesting nonetheless.

Here are a few excerpts from that transcript:

[quote]Senator Charles Hagel: If someone was going to get seriously hurt -- now, there are situations where it had happened to me; it happened to my brother -- when guys would pick up loaded M16s and loaded .45s and start shooting at somebody's foot or shooting over the top -- in the -- in the tents, in base camp, at night after drinking a quart of vodka. I mean, it was a little bit like the Wild West. And that's when they'd step in, of course, and have to because somebody would get shot. Now, some guys did get shot. I mean, I saw some of that happen. I saw a grenade -- I didn't see the grenade go off. It happened in a -- a tent next to me one night.

Mike Perry: A fragging?

Senator Charles Hagel: A fragging. Yeah. Happened more than once in our unit. And so that was the kind of stuff that was going on, but I think just letting the guy have a fisticuff, go out and just get it out of your system. They didn't ever really -- if it was obvious they had to go break it up, they had to break it up, but they didn't -- they didn't do anything unless they thought it was going to get out of hand.[/quote]


[quote]And a lot of guys cracked up. A lot of guys were -- either hurt themselves or someone else or got others killed or got themselves killed because they weren't ready for it.[/quote]



[quote]And we -- we fought the Battle of Widow's Village where the VC had gotten into this area, little village set up for the widows of the South Vietnamese soldiers and their children. And they had used that, the VC, as a staging area. They'd gone in and killed the children and the wives, widows, and then prepared for the attack[/quote]

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[img]http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/02230/ph0002001r.jpg[/img]

Other than that you can read his other info on Wiki and get the bio there.


[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hagel"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hagel[/url]

One item that stood out;

[quote]CEO of American Information Systems Inc., a computerized voting machine manufacturer.[/quote]

[url="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm"]http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm[/url]

[quote]In 1996, Hagel became the first elected Republican Nebraska senator in 24 years when he did surprisingly well in an election where the votes were verified by the company he served as chairman and maintained a financial investment. In both the 1996 and 2002 elections, Hagel�s ES&S counted an estimated 80% of his winning votes. Due to the contracting out of services, confidentiality agreements between the State of Nebraska and the company kept this matter out of the public eye. Hagel�s first election victory was described as a �stunning upset� by one Nebraska newspaper.[/quote]