WTF Is It Now?!?

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Ho ho! The 'chickenhawk' label returns!
Iraq war advocates didn’t fight

'Strangely, many conservative Washington “hawks” who are strong advocates of war contrived to duck combat duty when they were young. The label “chickenhawk” is applied to such leaders. At that time, columnist Jan Russell noted that Vice President Dick Cheney, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, adviser Karl Rove, Attorney General John Ashcroft, war adviser Richard Perle and various other Republican war advocates personally had arranged to avoid military service.

'The New Hampshire Gazette {See link at left - Ed.}, America’s oldest newspaper, and other groups {Such as this site!} have posted GOP chickenhawk lists on the Internet. Newt Gingrich, Dan Quayle, Trent Lott, Tom DeLay, William Bennett, Elliott Abrams, George Will, Rush Limbaugh, Kenneth Starr, Bob Barr, Ari Fleischer, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Bill O’Reilly, Phil Gramm, Jeb Bush, Steve Forbes, Jerry Falwell — these and many others are cited for ducking wars.

'[E]veryone should ponder the disturbing pattern of Washington hawks - leaders eager to send young soldiers into killing fields - who wriggled out of that dangerous duty themselves.' - - from an editorial in the WV Gazette.