Nary a word in the English language can make Republicans so apoplectically insane as this one:
chickenhawk
Of course, they don’t like it because it’s an underhanded way of calling them cowards. And nobody likes to be called a coward.
Strictly defined, "chickenhawk" is a term "meant to indicate that the person in question is cowardly or hypocritical for personally avoiding combat in the past while advocating that others go to war in the present." We all know who some of the most obnoxiously belligerent offenders are, like Bush, Cheney, Fred Thompson, Giuliani, O’Reilly, Hannity, Coulter, Limbaugh, Perle, Kristol, Feith, Wolfowitz, Rove, Snow, and Ted Nugent.
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