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	Chickenhawk (politics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Although also a name for a type of bird, in political usage chickenhawk is a compound of chicken (meaning coward) and hawk (meaning someone who advocates war, first used to describe "War Hawks" in the War of 1812).
		The "chickenhawk" idea implies that a military class is superior to civilian authorities in times of war, which is a dangerously militaristic (and reactionary) attitude.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chickenhawk_(politics) (2283 words)

	Chickenhawk - Libertarian Wiki
		Chickenhawk is an epithet used in United States politics to criticize a politician, bureaucrat, or commentator who votes for war, supports war, commands a war, or develops war policy, but has not personally served in the military, especially one who opted out of a previous war on dubious grounds.
		Chickenhawk is a compound of "chicken" as in "coward" and "hawk", a supporter of militaristic foreign policy.
		If it focuses on the experience of the chickenhawk, then a person could be opposed to war on the grounds that they are not confident that we could sucessfully wage the war, due to inexperience.
	libertarianwiki.org /Chickenhawk (866 words)

	Chickenhawk - dKosopedia
		This is usually argued to be the case because of the "chickenhawk's" lack of experience with the true costs of war, or the "chickenhawk's" perceived hypocrisy and lack of moral standing to force others to risk death or injury when they were not willing to risk their own life and limb when given the chance.
		Chickenhawk is a compound of "chicken" as in "coward" and "hawk" as in "pro-war," thus a chickenhawk is someone who is in favor of a war as long as someone else does the fighting and dying.
		Many point to the fact that use of the term is applied hypocritically and not equally by political liberals, notably as to Bill Clinton who avoided the draft during the Vietnam War by literally leaving the Western Hemisphere but ordered US soldiers to fight in numerous armed conflicts.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Chickenhawk (767 words)

	Chickenhawk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chickenhawk (bird), a common name for three different species of bird
		Chickenhawk (band), a rock band from Leeds, UK This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chickenhawk (88 words)

	American Politics Journal -- Another Vietnam
		If nothing else, it might serve as a much needed cautionary tale, and a reminder of the one valuable lesson that was learned from Vietnam: it was a horrible, tragic, terrible, godawful mistake that was begun on a fake pretext (Gulf of Tonkin "incident") and compounded across four presidential administrations (Republican and Democratic).
		Consider this, as well: Among those who are rattling their sabers for war with Saddam at the moment, most if not all were of age during the Vietnam War to serve in the military.
		The only member of his inner circle-whose influence is waning as does his political career for every day longer he remains in Bush's employ-is Colin Powell, and he is conspicuously tight-lipped about his feelings toward attacking Iraq.
	www.americanpolitics.com /20020731Bisbort.html (766 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Let's Bury the Chickenhawk Rhetoric
		The "chickenhawk" epithet may be somewhat accurate to describe those who eagerly press for war after actively evading meaningful military service during previous times of war, especially if they did so when the law required them to serve.
		I don't know; in a way, 'chickenhawk' is a pretty brilliant, very succinct assessment of the character of those labelled such: someone only too glad to avoid danger to themselves, while only too eager to see bloodshed as long as it's carried out by others at a distance from and no danger to themselves.
		"Chickenhawk" is less a way to silence anyone, IMO, than to make pointed reference to them that they are fooling no one, and that at least some of their audience are well aware of the discrepancy between what they say and what they do, i.e.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2006/07/24/163507.php (7889 words)

	COMMENTS
		Those who shout 'Chickenhawk' have of course probably also never served in the military - with a volunteer army for the last 30 years very few have served - but they feel that their choice is vindicated because they also didn't support the war or even support our troops who fought in it.
		Those who call others 'Chickenhawks' should immediately be looked at with skepticism, because in addition to being childish name-callers, they're either being deliberately disingenuous or they are fools who don't understand the realities of modern war, how it is fought and how it fits into society as a whole.
		No one is a 'Chickenhawk' who works hard and provides for a family, supports our soldiers, votes in local and national elections to give us the best leadership we can get, and is constantly vigilant to preserve our rights and our Constitution.
	www.fontcraft.com /csa/politicscomments.php?id=156_0_7_0_C (1420 words)

	Chickenhawk - SourceWatch
		The Online Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chickenhawk) defines a chickenhawk as "A politician or other person who promotes war without having had any personal experience of it; especially those who have avoided the experience." Another reference to chickenhawks is that "the closest they have come to a tank is a think-tank."
		The term 'chickenhawk' is thought to have been coined by Ralph Nader.
		Thus, the position of your average campus chickenhawk (see, e.g., Cheney, Dick) was that we ought to fight this war, and, indeed, people ought to be coerced into fighting this war, but my well-born friends and I ought not to be coerced and, indeed, ought not to fight at all.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Chickenhawk (1264 words)

	Toys in the Attic » Blog Archive » Chickenhawk
		I want to address the whole “chickenhawk” argument, the gist of which, I gather, is “if you don’t serve in the Armed Forces, you cannot comment on the War in Iraq.
		Generation Chickenhawk, an article in “The Nation” about the author (any relation to Sid “Vicious” Blumenthal I wonder?) and his experience with a group of college Republicans, so he claims.
		Without a doubt, one of the dumbest offshoots of the “chickenhawk” idea is encapsulated by an ambushing of MA governor Mitt Romney by a reporter from the Boston Herald, who asked him if any of his five sons were joining the military, since he supports the war in Iraq.
	blog.rjwest.com /?p=2583 (4215 words)

	What does the political term Chickenhawk mean? - Answerbag.com
		A Chickenhawk is someone who is politically Hawkish (meaning someone who wishs to wage war) but has never served in any of the armed forces or seen combat first hand.
		The term is generally used in the ad hominem circumstantial context: since a so-called "chickenhawk" has not served in war, and may have actively avoided service, the implication is that that person is ill-equipped to support a war.
		Chickenhawk is a compound of "chicken" as in "coward" and "hawk" as in "pro-war," thus a chickenhawk is someone who is alleged to be in favor of a war as long as someone else does the fighting and dying.
	www.answerbag.com /q_view.php/8414 (505 words)

	Gay Patriot » More thoughts on the chickenhawk slur
		The chickenhawk slur is a way for lefties to try and silence debate before the emptiness and vacuity of their positions can be revealed in detail.
		Instead, the term “chickenhawks” is nothing more than a succinct characterization of a site full of men (mainly) who avidly support the War On Iraq (calling it “a noble cause”), but who would not for a moment consider joining that war — even though that war needs their participation.
		A direct attack on Saddam would no doubt be politically risky — the president, concerned about his place in history, would be torn between the desire to get rid of a bully and the worry that an assassination plan gone awry would embarrass him late in his term.
	gaypatriot.net /?p=461 (10407 words)

	The Indepundit
		Politics is about MY agenda and YOUR agenda and who can pull the most votes with favors and promises and courtside tickets to some fuckin' NBA game.
		Silly thing about using the phrase "chickenhawk" at all is that it's not a matter of respect for the military or honor for their service on the part of Democrats, but simply an attempt to squash debate all around.
		The constituents of one district, for instance, aren't to be rendered voiceless en masse in debates simply because their particular elected representative is a "chickenhawk"; that "chickenhawk" is the elected representative of countless citizens, including civilians and military.
	www.indepundit.com /archive2/2005/12/chickenhawk_sma.html (6561 words)

	POLITICS-U.S.: Chickenhawk Groupthink?
		Hence the moniker ''chickenhawks'', defined as individuals who favour military solutions to political problems but who themselves avoided military service during wartime.
		The notion that the chickenhawks were morally superior, not just to Saddam Hussein or the ''terrorists'' or ''Ba'athist dead-enders'' whom they've been fighting since the war ended, extended even to the ''realists'', who were denounced in internal battles as ''appeasers'' or worse.
		As Cheney was recently quoted as declaring with regard to State Department proposals to engage North Korea, ''We don't negotiate with evil; we defeat it''.
	ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=23698 (929 words)

	http://www.qando.net/ - A variation on the chickenhawk theme
		All of this reminds me of the lame "chickenhawk" argument used by the left where they essentially state that if you're not willing to serve in the military to support a war you back, you really have no right to speak up about it.
		I think the rule, in practice, is that the chickenhawk epithet is applied at, and solely at, the convenience of the applier, irrespective of the content or the context of the argument at hand.
		The absurdity of the validity of the chickenhawk meme does need to be made more apparent, to larger numbers of folks.
	www.qando.net /details.aspx?Entry=2420 (2004 words)

	DECK OF REPUBLICAN CHICKENHAWKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.
		According to The New Hampshire Gazette, "a "chickenhawk" has three qualities: bellicosity (a warlike manner or temperament), public prominence, and a curious lack of wartime service when others their age had no trouble finding the fight.
		Each Chickenhawk scammed their way out of Vietnam and other conflicts not because of noble ideals that the war was a misguided tragedy, but because they were just plain cowards looking to save their skins.
	www.chickenhawkcards.com (663 words)

	Donklephant » Blog Archive » Chickenhawk Meme
		To my mind the so called chickenhawk thing was originally a lampooning of the lack of scarifice made by the general public and many in the leadership, especially those who are most vociferous in support of the current misadventure in Iraq.
		I think the call for the “chickenhawks” to serve in the military and Michael Moore’s stunt in Fahrenheit 9/11 was pretty damn silly in the end.
		On a similar tangent, political satirist Barry Crimmins, who was done his share of skewing American politics, would get the hecklers and others shouting at him “If you don’t like it here, why don’t you leave” … Crimmins had a simply reply.
	donklephant.com /2005/07/19/317 (2257 words)

	Donklephant » Blog Archive » The problem with “chickenhawk” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		This entry was posted on Monday, July 24th, 2006 and is filed under War, The War On Terrorism, General Politics, Foreign Policy, Military.
		I’ve never liked Jeff Jacoby’s writing but I agree with his general point here, that throwing around the term “chickenhawk” is pointless.
		What he fails to call attention to though is how often terms like “unpatriotic” have been thrown around at any one who opposes the war effort.
	donklephant.com /2006/07/24/the-problem-with-chickenhawk (506 words)

	BLACKFIVE: Atrios - All Chicken And No Hawk
		Attaching the chickenhawk label to those that see no other viable option implies that advocates of force are cowardly, dumb cheerleaders who do not share in the ugliness and pain of war.
		If "chickenhawks", a group of which I am a member, can legitimately be pro-war, then a citizen who has never served also has a legitimate right to criticize when he thinks the military is wrong or when they are just being a bunch of jerks.
		Given a passionate war advocate, "chickenhawk" basically is a very useful gauge to the honesty of the advocate's expressed opinion of the importance of waging this war.
	www.blackfive.net /main/2005/07/chickenhawks.html (13319 words)

	Jonah Goldberg on Casey Sheehan on National Review Online
		Various definitions of chickenhawk are out there, but the gist — as if you didn't know — is "coward" or "unpatriotic hypocrite." The accusation is less an argument than an insult.
		We hear this logic most often from adherents of identity politics, who give more weight to the statements of women, fls, Jews, and others for the sole reason that they were uttered by people born female, fl, Jewish or whatever.
		The chickenhawk charge is the misapplication of the same faulty logic.
	www.nationalreview.com /goldberg/goldberg200508170759.asp (872 words)

	http://www.qando.net/ - Chickenhawk II
		Not only that people are continuing to defend this bankrupt pseudo-argument but that Neil of all people — who is not a dumbass by any stretch, though one could be forgiven for thinking so based only on this weird post — is the one doing it.
		The response to those making the chickenhawk argument is to ask if they have opinons on things they have no stake in....
		What "chickenhawk" truly means is that Neil can oppose the war (Chickenhawk doesn’t apply to HIM), but I can’t support it...As we say here, "Good work if you can get it." I just don’t allow Neil or others to get away with it.
	www.qando.net /details.aspx?entry=3800 (5403 words)

	Ben Tripp: Chickenhawk a la Mode
		chickenhawk, dear readers, is one of two things: either a voting-age pedophile, or a warmonger who has never gone to war.
		Most of today's chickenhawks not only haven't been to war, but studiously avoided it by any means available.
		The problem with today's chickenhawks is that they're so used to having everything done for them, they think by sending other people off to war, they will make themselves into men by proxy.
	www.counterpunch.org /tripp1015.html (1777 words)

	The Chickenhawk War :: Intervention Magazine :: War, Politics, Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Having perfected the skill of avoiding the reality of war during Vietnam, Chickenhawks are now blindly leading this country into another major, bloody fiasco.
		For chickenhawks, todayâs bloody battle that killed 12 Marines and wounded at least 25 was simply a âfire-fight,â as a Republican Congressman said on Fox, and those 12 body bags headed back to Dover Air Force Base are just a âtemporary set back.â
		Chickenhawks know how to fight bloody wars against tough guerrillas in distant lands.
	www.interventionmag.com /cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=702 (1576 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Chickenhawk, Chickenhawk, Nyah Nyah Nyah!
		Actually the term is used more to point out the hypocrisy and phoniness of the so-called "paper" patriots, who, although having never served themselves, espouse the use of military force...as long as someone else has to go over and fight and die overseas in their place while they remain safely at home, pontificating military strategy.
		And I'm surprised nobody mentioned the origin of the blowhard idiot image of "chickenhawk" which is of course in a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon where a little chicken hawk goes out to prove his manhood by hunting the fearsome Loud-mouth Schnook when he finds out his father only scares chickens by going "muhahhahhaha".
		Calling someone a chickenhawk is saying that they are not a citizen, that they have no basic rights, that their voice is worthless because they can't or choose not to actually fight on the front lines.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/02/26/231028.php (11945 words)

	The Chickenhawk Vs. The Veteran :: Intervention Magazine :: War, Politics, Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		A Chickenhawk wins in Georgia and other states; Chickenhawks, such as William Bennett, are considered a moral voice by conservative Americans.
		Tom Delay wins the prize for the wildest Chickenhawk excuse; he said he did not go because they were âonly taking minorities.â The Republican Chickenhawks have an endless litany of excuses for why they couldnât make it to Vietnam--a war they ardently supported.
		And now MoveOn.orghas jumped into this fight between the Chickenhawks and the military veterans with a new television ad that âcontrasts Kerryâs courageous service in Vietnam with George Bushâs spotty record in the National Guard.â The ad concludes: âThis election is about character.
	www.interventionmag.com /cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=723 (1806 words)

	Connecticut Local Politics: Not so Swift
		I suggest there is now a new political species, the chickendove, who make loud noises about topics they know nothing about and then squawk loudly when people with a real interest in a topic dare to challenge their opinions
		However, just because Jepsen, or Lamont for that matter, is supporting something they believe in, its difficult for me to understand how you can make sweeping generalizations about either of their lives and/or any decisions they've had to make.
		Look, the chickenhawk stuff is B.S. FDR never really wore the uniform, (he was a WWI Navy undersecretary) but he beat the drum for war, and rightfully so.
	connecticutlocalpolitics.blogspot.com /2006/08/not-so-swift.html (2539 words)

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