[Doc Savage]

Gosh, at last my hero, Chuck Hagel, has given me my marching orders. I don’t even go to the bathroom to drop a “Hagel” unless I contact him first.

[PerConPat]

I don’t even go to the bathroom to drop a “Hagel” unless I contact him first.

LOL! Yes, that Chuck is something less than a deep thinker. Vietnam and the WOT, of which Iraq is a campaign, do not lend themselves to comparisons. Poor Hagel, he has somehow managed to not grasp the fact that the former was about containing the spread of a pernicious threat to the freedom of millions while the latter is about the more immediate concern of keeping mushroom clouds from forming over heavily populated areas of the US. To quote a great American character, and like Chuck- a Looney Tune, "What a maroon..."