Quotation

Why We're Liberals

a Political Handbook for post-Bush America
" The list of right-wing "chickenhawks" --those who support the use of force as an instrument of policy but were unwilling to serve on active duty themselves---includes President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, top presidential adviser Karl Rove, Iraq War planners Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Elliot Abrams, I.Lewis Libby, and John Bolton, and many more. In the conservative congressional leadership, including the Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), third-ranking in the Senate Rick Santorum, and former majority leader Trent Lott;in the House, Speaker Dennis Hastert, House majority leader Tom Delay former speaker Newt Gingrich, House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, former house Majority leader Dick Armey,and virtually every other pro-war Republican. Among prominent political pundits who demanded war, almost none could claim the wisdom and experience that even a brief enlistment in the military might have provided."