An inclusive list of those who endlessly advocate for war, but have done everything possible to avoid being in one.
Republican chickenhawks in the U.S. Senate:
- Old Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott : avoided the draft, did not serve.
- New Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist: did not serve.
- John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments, to teach business.
- Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. “Bad knee” He defeated tripelegic Democratic war hero Max Cleland by questioning his patriotism!
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- Don Nickles: did not serve.
- Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
- Rick Santorum: did not serve.
- Richard Shelby: did not serve.
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Phil Gramm: did not serve.
Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
Jon Kyl: did not serve.
John Engler: did not serve.
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Republican chickenhawks in the U.S. House :
- Newt Gingrich — sought graduate school deferment, (too smart to die).
- Majority Leader Dick Armey – avoided the draft, did not serve.
- Majority Leader Tom Delay – avoided the draft, did not serve.
- Majority Leader John A. Boehner – did not serve.
- Jack Kemp: did not serve. “Knee problem,” although continued in NFL for 8 years.
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- G.O.P. Leader Roy Blunt: did not serve.
- Bob Ney: did not serve.
- David Dreier: did not serve.
- Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
- Christopher Cox: did not serve.
- Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
- John M. McHugh: did not serve.
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JC Watts: did not serve.
Vin Weber: did not serve.
Bob Barr: did not serve.
Mark Souder: did not serve.
Walter Jones: did not serve.
Katherine Harris: did not serve. .
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Republican chickenhawks in the Executive & Judicial branches:
- Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
- Kenneth Starr : sought deferment (for psoriasis).
- Bill Bennett : sought graduate school deferment, (too smart to die).
- Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.
- Ted Olson, (Starr’s assistand, and since Solictor General)
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- Karl Rove: did not serve.
- Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
- Richard Perle: did not serve.
- Douglas Feith: did not serve.
- Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
- Ari Fleischer: did not serve.
- Andrew Card: did not serve.
- Ken Adelman: did not serve.
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Don Evans: did not serve.
Michael Ledeen: did not serve.
Elliott Abrams: did not serve.
John Bolton: did not serve.
Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
George Pataki: did not serve.
Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
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| Supreme Court: |
- John G. Roberts, Jr.: did not serve.
- Samuel Alito: did not serve.
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Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
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- The LIBERAL John Paul Stevens is the only current justice who DID serve, (in the Navy during the 3 worst years of WW II).
Republican chickenhawk Mouthpieces :
- Rush Limbaugh — sought deferment (because of a cyst on his tail end).
- George Will — sought graduate school deferment, (too smart to die).
- Pat Buchanan — sought deferment (for bad knee).
- Pat Robertson — his US Senator father got him out of Korea as soon as the shooting began.
- John Wayne — sought deferment (to further acting career).
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- Sean Hannity: did not serve.
- Bill O’Reilly: did not serve.
- Chris Matthews: did not serve.
- Matt Drudge: did not serve.
- Steve Forbes: did not serve.
- Tony Snow: did not serve.
- Michael “Savage” Weiner: did not serve.
- Brit Hume: did not serve.
- Roger Ailes: did not serve.
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Paul Gigot: did not serve.
Bill Kristol: did not serve.
Ralph Reed: did not serve.
Michael Medved: did not serve.
Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
Anne Coulter: did not serve.
Jerry Falwell: did not serve.
Alan Keyes : did not serve.
Ted Nugent: did not serve.
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