I've always liked this man.

He's dashing. Newsroom ladies I worked with in Omaha kept press pictures of him on their cubicles, sometimes signing with fake romantic salutations, 'luv Chuck.'

He's daring, if the puts his party affiliation where his mouth is in the above article.

And he's ready to stop the war.

from the The Hill article:

The senator criticized the administration for continuing to say that Iraq is the central front of the war on terror. “This is a civil sectarian war,” Hagel said. “Yes, al Qaeda is there. Yes, terrorists are there, but they are not the predominant aspect of this.”