Say what you will about Chuck Hagel, and there's plenty of unflattering things to say about about the man, when he broke with Bush on Iraq, he broke with Bush on Iraq.
That included standing with Jim Webb today in support of his amendment requiring that active duty troops have at least the same time at home as the length of their previous tour of duty overseas, and setting a minimum floor for National Guard and Reserve mobilization and deployments.
That's a real break with Bush. The Webb amendment is the first marker of the "tough" talk by would-be Bush defectors. So Smith, Snowe, Collins, Domenici, Lugar, what are you going to do? Are you going to support the troops by correcting our troop-rotation policy? Are you going to break with the President when it really counts, or continue to rubberstamp his war?