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Freddy Kagan didn't go! Bobby Kagan didn't go!

Hell, no! Hell, no! (Clap! Clap Clap! Clap!)

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Georgie Dubya didn't go! Dickie Cheney didn't go!

Hell, no! Hell, no! (Clap! Clap Clap! Clap!)

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Karly Rove, he didn't go! Freddy Thompson didn't go

Hell, no! Hell, no! (Clap! Clap Clap! Clap!)

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Mittsy Romney didn't go! Giuliani didn't go!

Hell, no! Hell, no! (Clap! Clap Clap! Clap!)

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Hey! It's the Mighty 'Strap-on' Warriors!

Watch them wave their flags!

Follow the Mighty 'Strap-on' Warriors!

Support the war, you hippie fags!

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Ronnie Reagan didn't go! Johnny Wayne he didn't go!

Hell, no! Hell, no! (Clap! Clap Clap! Clap!)

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Billy Frist he didn't go! Newtie Gingrich didn't go!

Hell, no! Hell, no! (Clap! Clap Clap! Clap!)

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Rushie Limbaugh didn't go! Bill O'Reilly didn't go!

Hell, no! Hell, no! (Clap! Clap Clap! Clap!)

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Johnny Boehner didn't go! Joey Lieberman didn't go!

Hell, no! Hell, no! (Clap! Clap Clap! Clap!)

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Hey! It's the Mighty 'Strap-on' Warriors!

Watch them wave their flags!

Follow the Mighty 'Strap-on' Warriors!

Support the war, you hippie fags!

Oh really?

You can have opinions about the military without having served but you can not lead the military without having served. Nor can you send others to die without risking anything yourself in the cause.-- Denning

How does that square with Bill Clinton as Commander in Chief, and Hillary Clinton as aspiring Commander in Chief? Neither served.

I should have clarified what I meant by "leading" the military. By "leading", I meant developing the strategies and tactics to achieve an objective set by the commander-in-chief, e.g. Gen. petraeus, commander MNF-I.

No one is arguing that the presidency, a civilian post, should only go to veterans.

Here are a couple more quotes from dubya the greatest orator of our time.

"Actually, I -- this may sound a little West Texan to you,

but I like it. When I'm talking about -- when I'm talking about myself,

and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me."

Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."

Reuters, May 5, 2000

"I think we agree, the past is over."

On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News,

May 10, 2000

"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is

sometimes until we get an objective analysis."

Meet the Press, April 15, 2000

"I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty

close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close

to California."

Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000

"We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the

obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how

to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure

there's not this kind of federal cufflink."

Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000

"The fact that he relies on facts -- says things that are not

factual -- are going to undermine his campaign."

New YorkTimes, March 4, 2000

"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton

in nature."

Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000

"I understand small business growth. I was one."

New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000

"The senator has got to understand if he's going to have he

can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the

low road."

To reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb. 17, 2000

"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls

and principles, come and join this campaign."

Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000

"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a

system that simply suckles kids through?"

Explaining the need for educational accountability,

Beaufort, S.C.,

Feb. 16, 2000

"We ought to make the pie higher."

South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000

"I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less I

pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm

more interacting with people."

Meet The Press, Feb. 13, 2000

"I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the

middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth."

Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins, New York

Times, Feb. 1, 2000

"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady

in my case."

Pella, Iowa, as quoted in the San Antonio Express News,

Jan. 30, 2000

"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"

Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000

"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's

what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."

Speaking during Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds

Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los

Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."

Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen

and uncertainty and potential mental losses."

At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the

Financial Times, Jan. 14, 2000

"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor

just like you like to be liked yourself."

At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the

Financial Times, Jan.14, 2000

"There needs to be debates, like we're going through.

There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge

country."

Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999

"The important question is, How many hands have shaked?"

Answering a question about why he hasn't spent more

time in NewHampshire, In the New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999

"Keep good relations with the Grecians."

Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999

Bennett is a strong supporter of the Iraq War and recently Slots Bennett described his son's and his son's teammates fascination with the movie 300 in these terms:

They're young men. This kind of thing touches them and moves them. They want something to live for and even, if they have to, to die for.

(There's no word yet on whether his son, a senior in high school, has decided to enlist in the military. )

This thread put me in the mood for Roy Zimmerman's "Chickenhawk" too:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SsktNLgpCs8

The {bawk} stops here.