What is a "Chickenhawk"?

[rpm]

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. The fact that they're almost all Republicans is ... well, curious, don't you think?"



Want to know who served and who didn't?

[Tarmac]

Bill Clinton served in the... oh wait.  

Pull up your pants, your bias is showing.

[rpm]

Read the list, then get back to me.

[john9001]

a chickenhawk  is a hawk that eats chickens, y'all city boys done kno nuttn.

[kappa]

links down rpm 8(

[majic]

Originally posted by rpm371
Read the list, then get back to me.

Don't have to.  I read the URL.  Try a credible source next time.

[GRUNHERZ]

Q:

What do you call a guy who votes to cut funding for nearly every major weapons sytem use by the army and Air Force today?

A:

John Kerry


I guess he wants all our troops to be purple heart heros like him and to get shot up and hurt by having inferior equipment. What a bastard... John Kerry wants US soldiers to be weak and defensless without advanced weapons, his voting record reflects a man who hates the military and who wants us soldiers to die by having inferior equipment. He may have recieved some medals but benedict arnold was once a hero too....  Kerry is a disgrace.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by rpm371
The fact that they're almost all Republicans is ... well, curious, don't you think?"


Want to know  

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[kappa]

Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
I guess he wants all our troops to be purple heart heros like him and to get shot up and hurt by having inferior equipment. What a bastard... John Kerry wants US soldiers to be weak and defensless without advanced weapons, his voting record reflects a man who hates the military and who wants us soldiers to die by having inferior equipment. He may have recieved some medals but benedict arnold was once a hero too....  Kerry is a disgrace. [/B]

Is that like Bush sending soldiers to Iraqi without the best in body armor? How about Bush sending american troops to die for a falsified cause?? Or perhaps Bush not funding local fire fighters or local response teams like he said he would? Or how about Bush not funding no child left behind.. How about Bush failing to back his promise for $10billion in aid to Africa for its AIDS epidimic..

Can you really believe what you typed? Kerry wants US souldiers to be weak? Can you actually believe this to be true? Hes a war veteren.. Can you possibly think anyone that had been in that situation would send troops ill-prepared? More so than Bush did? Do you think he would commit them on a lie?? common gh.....

[Saurdaukar]

http://www.awolbush.com

Bringing you unbiased news 24 hours a day.  Tune in next week when we examine Bush's claim that he is the Son of God.  Now a word from our sponsors...

...Here at MoveOn.org we pride ourselves in bringing you the truth.  As you are well aware, we have suffered over a trillion casualties in Iraq and...

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Saurdaukar
http://www.awolbush.com

Bringing you unbiased news 24 hours a day.  Tune in next week when we examine Bush's claim that he is the Son of God.  Now a word from our sponsors...

...Here at MoveOn.org we pride ourselves in bringing you the truth.  As you are well aware, we have suffered over a trillion casualties in Iraq and...

Moveon.org is a riot! We have Liberal faithfuls on our bimmer board that swear they're unbias. LMAO!

[Dune]

No, this is a chickenhawk  -->

[GRUNHERZ]

"Can you really believe what you typed? Kerry wants US souldiers to be weak? Can you actually believe this to be true? Hes a war veteren.. Can you possibly think anyone that had been in that situation would send troops ill-prepared? More so than Bush did? Do you think he would commit them on a lie?? common gh....."

Not really kappa but it was fun to write it, I guess in the great tradition of anti-bush attacks I suppse.

But still it does bother me that he now positions himself the great war hero national security candidate when he has such a terrible voting record on defense. For example he voted to cut funding for the M1 Abrams tank, that would leave the army with the old steel armor M60 - a capable old tank but far less advanced with far less protection or speed...

But how much does his veteran status protect him from his outrageous voting record?

[SunTracker]

All a soldier really needs is a gun and some boots.  The rest is just convience.

[Toad]

Originally posted by kappa
Is that like Bush sending soldiers to Iraqi without the best in body armor?  

Do some research on the Interceptor vest. It wasn't even approved for production and introduced until 1999. There aren't that many companies with the capability to make the plates. That situation is being rectified using the time honored tradition of throwing money at it.

"It's not a question of money, it's a question of capacity to manufacture these devices," the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Gen. Richard Myers, told a Senate committee last month. "We're making them as quickly as we can."


Of the American soldiers in Iraq who already have the body armor, some received it before arriving in Iraq and others after their deployment.


Nelson said the Army originally hired three companies to make the plates: Armor Works LLC of Tempe, Ariz.; Ceradyne Inc. of Costa Mesa, Calif; and Simula Inc. of Phoenix.


The Army recently added three more companies to make the inserts, Nelson said: Point Blank Body Armor Inc., a division of DHB Industries, of Carle Place, N.Y.; ProTech Armored Products, a subsidiary of Armor Holdings Inc., of Jacksonville, Fla.; and ForceOne LLC, of Spruce Pine, N.C.


To help meet the demand, all six companies also are making heavier versions of the bulletproof plates, which can be manufactured quicker and easier, Nelson said.

I suppose if we needed 300 F-22's, you guys would be beeching that Bush didn't build them in time. .