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Former Reagan administration Secretary of State Alexander Haig said Sunday that President Bush shouldn't let advice from members of his father's administration interfere with his decision to attack Iraq. "I think he has to be careful of the old gang," Haig told Fox News Sunday. "These are the people that created the problems in the first place by not handling Saddam Hussein correctly." The former Reagan and Nixon official didn't hesitate naming names: "I'm talking about the previous administration and their spokesmen: Jim Baker, [Brent] Skowcroft and a very wise daddy who's not talking at all and he shouldn't." Haig...

Over two years ago, Gen. Alexander Haig was speaking about "Deep Throat” with NewsMax editor Christopher Ruddy. Gen. Haig told Ruddy bluntly who the likely suspect was: Mark Felt. "It didn’t come as a surprise to me at all,” Gen. Haig told NewsMax.com Tuesday evening. "The only good news is that it was revealed by the individual himself so that it deprived the Washington Post of another profit windfall,” he said with a chuckle. As President Nixon’s chief of staff during the Watergate episode, few know the inside details of how the White House dealt with the scandal and a...

BOSTON --Former Nixon adviser Alexander Haig said military leaders in Iraq are repeating a mistake made in Vietnam by not applying the full force of the military to win the war. "Every asset of the nation must be applied to the conflict to bring about a quick and successful outcome, or don't do it," Haig said. "We're in the midst of another struggle where it appears to me we haven't learned very much." The comments by Haig, also a Secretary of State under Reagan, came at a conference at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum examining the Vietnam...