If all the Republican and Democrat politicians are so gung-ho in their "support the troops" rhetoric, why has not one member of Congress objected or even commented on the Bush administration's cut of more than SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS from the Veterans' Administration annual budget?
If military operations in Iraq are NOT about oil, then why did Donald Rumsfeld continually deny Army and Marine commanding generals' requests over the past 28 months to pull TWO DIVISIONS OF TROOPS away from guard duty at Unocal oil fields?
Chickenhawk (also chicken hawk and chicken-hawk) is a political epithet used in the United States to criticize a politician, bureaucrat, or commentator who strongly supports a war or other military action, but has never personally been in a war, especially if that person is perceived to have actively avoided military service when of draft age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenhawk_%28politics%29
2007-05-23 10:44:59 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
You are just including the cuts in this years Bush budget, not 2006!
You are the only one on here, besides me, who have commented, especially when he is giving tax-cuts to the rich.
They are treating 105,000 Iraqi Veterans and Bush is cutting their budget! You saw what happened to Walter Reed!
Iraq has always been about oil! They weren't terrorist, they had nothing to do with 9/11, they never attacked us, nor did they intend to attack us, and Bush KNEW he didn't have what he claimed he had. Hans Blix told the UN that! And the documents he had were forged!
I love the Chicken-hawks as well! Always ready to send someone elses kid off to die and then armchair quarterback a war they know nothing about!
2007-05-23 10:54:17 · answer #1 · answered by cantcu 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-05 04:03:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually that would kind on negate the current budget they has as puny as it is! LOL
2007-05-23 10:51:06 · answer #3 · answered by Angry EX-DEM 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Returning soldiers are not as important as deploying soldiers.
H ell, everyone knows that.
2007-05-23 10:52:54 · answer #4 · answered by sarcasm_generator 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because it would dip into their three-foot pockets with their two-foot arms. War profitering is the key to this answer.
2007-05-23 10:49:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
But they put yellow magnetic ribbons on their cars?!! What do you mean they don't support veterans?
2007-05-23 10:49:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Along with it's 'DON'T ASK DON'T TELL' policy , the Pentagon has a policy of ''USE'M THEN LOSE'M'' !
2007-05-23 10:52:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
wow
you support the death penelty for illegal parking too?
2007-05-23 10:49:07 · answer #8 · answered by q6656303 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋