Chickenhawk (also chicken hawk and chicken-hawk) is a political epithet used in the United States to criticize a politician, bureaucrat, or commentator who strongly supports a war or other military action, but has never personally been in a war, especially if that person is perceived to have actively avoided military service when of draft age.
- Wikipedia

does Dick Cheney like twinks or is there another definition of chickenhawk?

Yup..Chickenhawks of a feather, flock together.

"I don't remember"...sure sounds familiar. It'll be the lasting refrain of the Bush administration as they try to hide their crimes.

What comes around goes around..nuf said.

QM- Kerry is a good man and a war hero. Not a chickenhawk like your boy Dubya and his cronies. So he married a gal with money? Good on him.

Fake Sulu starts with the same old liberal garbage ("Bush lied") and gets no better.

Instead of taking a swipe at so-called chickenhawks, he should point his uncalibrated phasers of perception at his own party, which actively hates the military and wants us to lose in Iraq.

Don't forget how we got into this mess ("Bring 'em on"). The very definition of a modern major chickenhawk.

Here is what waterboarding really is. The US used to persecute countries using this as a war crime. Chickenhawk Cheney thinks it's a good idea.

The problem with torture is that it produces bad intelligence. People will say anything.

Enzo, I hear what you're saying. But something is badly broken. Bush lied to the American people and lost their trust. Rumsfeld is incompetent and Bush won't fire him -- it'd be an admission of failure. This is a stubborn inept administration led by chickenhawks.

These guys are going through established procedures.. it's not like they're going AWOL. The system is broken and it's important that everyone speak up and not accept the lies like "stay the course". I'm sure this guy expects his career to be destroyed- at least. Kudos to him for speaking up.

Please pay no attention to the man behind the hurtin'.

Ya know, I could see the value in only electing people who have served in the military - not these chickenhawks. Reagan got his ideas from movies. This Administration gets them from 24.

Excuse me while I wipe a tear at the beauty of both my original statements and ripostes...


Ivory tower eggheads divorced from reality are even less credible than so-called chickenhawks."

- Ah! That's such a ridiculous statement to make. Tell that to all the families that lost sons, daughters, wives, husbands, fathers and mothers.

>>>>>> Which ones? The widows of 9-11? Or all the infidels murdered by islamist wackjobs?


If America were truly an empire, we would've kept all that territory we conquered in WW2 as our own.

- This is so stupid I can't even formulate a reply.

>>>>>> Well, no one said a liberal would have an easy time with the obvious...


But it didn't happen: instead we used our money to rebuild former enemy nations.

- O rly? So... who equppied both Iran and Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war? Ohhhh it's your republican idols! Wooo!

>>>>>> I'm going to be pissed to find out you're a 22-year-old poli-sci major, aren't I? Fortunately I have milk on hand to quell all desires.

Most of the folks in that video have seen combat time. "Ivory tower eggheads divorced from reality" - that's Rumsfeld, the biggest chickenhawk of em all.

Anthony Zinni
The former Marine general said Secretary Rumsfeld should be held accountable for "throwing away ten years' worth of planning, plans that had taken into account what we would face in an occupation of Iraq."

Paul Eaton
The retired major general, who oversaw the training of Iraqi troops until 2004, wrote in The New York Times that "Rumsfeld has put the Pentagon at the mercy of his ego, his Cold Warrior's view of the world and his unrealistic confidence in technology to replace manpower."

Charles Swannack Jr.
The former commander of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq told the New York Times, "I do not believe Secretary Rumsfeld is the right person to fight that war based on his absolute failures in managing the war against Saddam in Iraq."

Gregory Newbold
The former Marine general, writing in Time magazine, declared, “I now regret that I did not more openly challenge those who were determined to invade a country whose actions were peripheral to the real threat--Al Qaeda.”

John M. Riggs
In an interview with National Public Radio, retired Gen. Riggs alleged an atmosphere of ''arrogance" among top civilian leaders at the Pentagon. Rumsfeld ''should step aside and let someone step in who can be more realistic," he said.

John Batiste
The retired major general, who led a division in Iraq, told CNN, "We need leadership up there that respects the military as they expect the military to respect them. And that leadership needs to understand teamwork."

"Ivory tower eggheads divorced from reality are even less credible than so-called chickenhawks."

- Ah! That's such a ridiculous statement to make. Tell that to all the families that lost sons, daughters, wives, husbands, fathers and mothers.

If America were truly an empire, we would've kept all that territory we conquered in WW2 as our own.

- This is so stupid I can't even formulate a reply.

But it didn't happen: instead we used our money to rebuild former enemy nations.

- O rly? So... who equppied both Iran and Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war? Ohhhh it's your republican idols! Wooo!

Try again, Chomskysift.

- That's just soft.

Ivory tower eggheads divorced from reality are even less credible than so-called chickenhawks.

If America were truly an empire, we would've kept all that territory we conquered in WW2 as our own.

But it didn't happen: instead we used our money to rebuild former enemy nations.

Try again, Chomskysift.

qm - so wise.

How is that fiscal responsibility movement going for the Bush Administration? Have they thought about balancing a budget yet or is permanent war an excuse against doing that as well?

Thank Jesus that President Cheney is in command, scouring central Lebanon for Iraqi WMD, demanding that Sri Lanka be searched for nuclear materials that may or may not be located in North Korea.

If you knowingly elect the gang that couldn't shoot straight, you had better be prepared to eat some chickenhawk shot.

Rush says "Our generation will not disappoint".

My response "YOUR generation already has. So often, so thoroughly, and so completely".

Chickenhawk.