Colin Powell Says Hagel Is ‘Superbly Qualified’
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Former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel, a twice-wounded Vietnam War veteran, is “superbly qualified” to run the Pentagon, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said today in a television interview.
Powell, a Republican like Hagel, appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program, rejecting criticism from other party members over a comment the former Nebraska lawmaker made about the “Jewish lobby” and a 2007 vote opposing designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist group.