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From Lisa:

Chickenhawk n. A person enthusiastic about war, provided someone else fights it; particularly when that enthusiasm is undimmed by personal experience with war; most emphatically when that lack of experience came in spite of ample opportunity in that person's youth.

In a demonstration of why New Hampshire was the destination of choice for the Free State Project, the New Hampshire Gazette has compiled the Chickenhawk Database. It's amazing how many of these folks had "bad knees", yet are to this day engaging their middle-aged bodies in such weight-bearing activities as running!

Quoted from the Chickenhawk Database:
The alleged "gentlemen" [guess they couldn't in good conscience call Ann Coulter a "lady"? –L.] listed in this database are here because they share 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. (Sorry, Dan and George W. and Dan Q. — your safe, cushy National Guard slots won't help you now.) The fact that they's almost all Republicans is . . . well, curious, don't you think? No doubt this list is incomplete. Readers are encouraged to nominate their favorite overlooked chickenhawks.


The Gazette has divided the (sadly lengthy) list into groups with something in common (besides being chickenhawks!). Some highlights:

• Chickenhawk Headquarters
  (the Head Chickenhawks associated with the Bush White House)
  
• Barking Head Brigade
  (media bigmouths who, oddly, don't want to talk about their lack of service)
  
• Bureaucratic Battalion
  (some repeats here, but worth a look to see those not previously listed)
  
• Chaplain Corps
  (Never pass up an opportunity to read about the hypocrisy of the pious!)
  
• Politicians Platoon
  (Check here for your favorite — or least favorite! — local politico. This also includes national-scale Repug hacks who haven't been mentioned elsewhere. I couldn't have been more delighted to find Rep. Roscoe 'women-should-be-barefoot-and-pregnant' Bartlett on this list!)
  
• Propaganda Platoon
  (Mostly media and entertainment types — lots of repeats — but fresh pokes at Brit Hume and Lee Greenwood(!))
  
• Sui Generis
  (An entire page devoted to Ted Nugent... wonder where they got that disgusting toon?!)
  
• The Legal Department
  (A must visit... the opening salvo is aimed at Ashcroft. Need I say more?)

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