“I got called a chickenhawk the other day,”
By on May 4th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
“I got called a chickenhawk the other day,”
National Review’s Greg Pollowitz says. “I think one of the greatest missed opportunities since 9/11 is that the govt. didn’t create a way for 30+ year old guys who want to help, but really can’t, to serve.” Actually, they did: “Welcome to the National Guard, where all citizens between the ages of 17 and 40 are eligible for service.”
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goddamn do I need to post the operation yellow elephant link again?
May 4th, 2006 at 5:35 pmAny chance they can take Rumsfled as a new recruit? Kinda old, but always ready to fight.
May 4th, 2006 at 5:39 pmChickenhawk or chickensh*t?
May 4th, 2006 at 5:41 pmOops. We’ll all now see that he is actually a CHICKENhawk. There’s a difference ya know.
May 4th, 2006 at 5:41 pmIts easy to type the ‘Talk’
and do the Bush Swagger Walk.
Right George? Tell em to Bring it on George, you bug hunkie brush clearing wimp.
May 4th, 2006 at 5:43 pmIf they don’t want to serve, I wonder if any of them give blood? The military just announced a shortage of blood, and so I wonder why none of them have mentioned donating? Is it because it would be an acknowledgement that their cause is failing?
May 4th, 2006 at 5:44 pmI’ve been to quite a few right wing sites lately, and there’s always a few who say “well, am I a chicken hawk because I’m too old and crippled to serve?” I have yet to read any of them posting that they have given blood, or have even thought about it. And it’s too bad really, because it would be a way of saying, “at least a PART of me is in the “war on terror.”
yes, darn it all. if only I, as a 30 year old in good health, could sign up to fight for my country. what? I can? Well, darn, if only I didn’t have so much responsibility, you know, other priorities. Darn these deferments!
But I’m with you troops in spirit, cheering you on, really I am.
May 4th, 2006 at 5:45 pmThey didn’t like it when I told them “Chickenhawk” is the street slang for someone who hangs around bus terminals and train stations looking for desperate kids who’ve run away from home and are looking to “make it in the big city” – in essence a pimp.
May 4th, 2006 at 5:48 pmThe GOP is recruiting there own kids for Iraq. Currently their are over 153 Congressional and Senators Kids that want to go to Iraq and fight For George, they Want to show America the Patriotic Spirit and have asked the GOP, To help the Re-election effort of the Pioneers, and the Bush Friends for War, A Bill into Congress so we the Sons Of Congress can go to IRAQ.
Thank you, Please Support The Sons of Congress for Iraq War. The GOP needs Congresses Blood.
Please Help them to Help US.
GOP
May 4th, 2006 at 5:50 pmSONS FOR WAR [and VOTES]
PACMEN
I have approximately 1,000,000 National Guard pamphlets my son isn’t going to use. I think I’ll send them to him.
May 4th, 2006 at 5:56 pmThe only folks that can’t join are the “grannies” from NY.
May 4th, 2006 at 5:56 pmWasn’t this from an e-mail? Who gives a rat’s ass about what someone wanked about in an e-mail. Aren’t people allowed to say stupid incriminating things in their electronic mail? If the Bush administration has ridiculed WRITTEN LAW by ignoring it as semantical banter why should any thing anyone says in an artificial, semi private medium such as E-Mail be held accountable for accuracy, logic or substance?
May 4th, 2006 at 6:04 pmFrom the National Guard’s website:
For 100 HOOAH Points, answer the following quiz question!
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To join the Guard you must be between the ages of 17 and 40.
TRUE
FALSE
The HOOAH Points Program is endorsed by the National Guard. Some substitutions and limits may apply. All rights reserved.
May 4th, 2006 at 6:21 pmVisit the HOOAH Points Page for complete details
Can someone please tell how and why 60 mil can vote for Bush and they still can’t get enough people to join the army . I guess it’s not so scarey marching on an abortion clinic or a Marilyn Manson concert .
May 4th, 2006 at 6:31 pmI’m 11 years past the age when the Guard would still take me, not that I would sign up with Rummy’s gun runners anyways….
I’ve gone one better, just returned from my first fire fighting experience as a wildland firefighter.
Turns out that not only can I keep up with the young bucks, I’m actually quite knowledgable, talented, and of course, humble………….
Looks like we’ll be quite busy this year, what with the acceleration of climate change, storms, droughts, etc……..
Who’d a thunk I’d ever get a government job!!!!!!!
May 4th, 2006 at 6:51 pmMy husband, a former Marine, recently got a letter from the Army National Guard asking him to join up. He’s 45 and deaf in 1 ear. If they are begging middle aged former military to join up I am sure Greg Pollowitz would be accepted!
May 4th, 2006 at 6:54 pmGreg, you can help blow up ballons at the wonderful partys the have in Bagdad.
May 4th, 2006 at 7:00 pmThe Guard!?!?! pffffffft!
He wants to se a Navy Seal Sniper tracking Zarqhawi from the gulleys at the side of the road.
That’s the job they won’t let him take. Don’t you get it?
May 4th, 2006 at 7:09 pmanother opportunity for these silly red-neck facists is to join one of those mercenery outfits that bush is hiring… i don’t think they do much in terms of background checks…it looks like they don’t get a dental exam either. just bullets….
May 4th, 2006 at 7:14 pmThese guys are more braindead than a bag of rocks and their only reference material is Fox News WGOP. They have to shut the flark up. This dumb jackass can certainly get his lily white ass over to Bagdad any way he pleases.
May 4th, 2006 at 7:22 pmThe No Child Left Behind Act is simply an inventory of every child reaching recruiting age. It has zero to do with education.
May 4th, 2006 at 7:40 pmI’ve seen it in action.
Military set up in LUNCHROOMS, watching, checking out the “promising”ones.
The form you have to fill out at the beginning of each school year, handed over to the Federal Gvt.
Thank God my daughter has Epilepsy.
I didn’t say that years ago when she developed it, but since King George decided on WWIII, I think it was whatever Higher Power intervening to help my child escape this madness. Now I write here to help curtail this madman’s “mission.”
I wonder if Pollwitz bothered to read the either the Iraq or Afganistan consitution and how they are each explicit in its establishment as the Koran as the source for law in each respective country. I wonder if he did.
I’ll fight for this country, but not for a theocracy.
May 4th, 2006 at 7:58 pmHaving served in the army. What could possibly make you think that I would want to serve with these people. Most of the people I served with wouldn’t want to serve with them because they would see that they were utterly useless and were better suited to being KEY BOARD COMMANDOS busily criticizing those who question why were at war.
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As long as the Bu$h twins are’nt needed, our country won’t need Pillowatch to join up. “Nuff with the hypocrisy!
May 4th, 2006 at 9:46 pm“Want to help, but really can’t.” What the devil is THAT supposed to mean? More pointless gum-flapping, what a surprise! Whatever, mister.
May 4th, 2006 at 10:59 pmwhen i was growing up / aging, we called chickenhawks ” pussies ” which unfortunately slandered one of my favorite female attributes. did chickenhawk replace pussie so that we would no longer slander that wonderful female attribute ? was there a word after pussie but before chickenhawk, maybe coward ? does chickenhawk equate to ‘ cowardly piece of cowardly sh*t ‘ ?
May 4th, 2006 at 11:44 pm#27 I like to use the good ol fashion term “sissy’s”.
May 5th, 2006 at 12:04 amI forwarded him all the relevant recruitment info along with links on how to sign up and thanked him for his enthusiam. I also asked him to post a copy of the info on his website so like minded patriots can sign up, too. I’m thinking the enlistment gap will be filled quite quickly now.
May 5th, 2006 at 12:21 amThis is one of the best clips I’ve seen you guys do yet. Leave the First Lady alone, she’s no policy wonk. But that guy at the National Review, he’s fair game.
May 5th, 2006 at 12:57 am…He that overcometh,the same
May 5th, 2006 at 12:58 amshall be clothed in white raiment;
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I want to sign up to serve my country, but after all my blind support of the Bush administration and heartless cheering for war, I would get fragged my first week there.
May 5th, 2006 at 8:49 amAn acquiantance of mine joined after 911 and he was 34 at the time. When I was in basic training we had a guy who was in his late thrities in our troop.
May 5th, 2006 at 8:58 amI think loyal Bush supporters should go, lest they be mere ‘keyboard commandos,’ like me.
May 5th, 2006 at 8:35 pm#32. I would be the first one to frag your sorry f*cked-up ass. From a Vietnam vet.
May 5th, 2006 at 8:41 pmJoin the Guard/Reserves, Travel to exotic locations and meet strange new people, and kill them(but only on weekends).
May 5th, 2006 at 8:44 pmOperation Yellow Elephant is a nonpartisan grass roots citizens initiative to Support Our President by encouraging his strongest supporters, if qualified, to consider military service. Because only healthy heterosexuals under 40 are eligible, we are concentrating on College and Young Republicans. If a particular patriot is not accepted for enlistment, Your Country Thanks You for stepping forward.
After all, if President Bush cannot convince even his strongest supporters to volunteer, how can he possibly lead our nation, and the international Coalition of the Willing, to a successful outcome in the Global War on Terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere?
May 6th, 2006 at 5:32 am