Chickenhawk (politics)

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• "We know who the chicken hawks are. They talk tough on national defense and military issues and cast aspersions on others," he said. "When it was their turn to serve where were they? AWOL, that's where they were...the lead chickenhawk against Sen. Kerry [is] the vice president of the United States, Vice President Cheney."

• United States Senator Frank Lautenberg, on the floor of the Senate, April 28, 2004 [1]

• "Many of those who want to rush this country into war and think it would be so quick and easy don't know anything about war. They come at it from an intellectual perspective, versus having sat in jungles or foxholes and watched their friends get their heads blown off."

• United States Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska- 2002