Generation Chickenhawk: the Unauthorized College Republican Convention Tour

[Cypress]

On July 13, 2007, I visited Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, where the bodies of American soldiers killed in Iraq were freshly interred. Afterwards, I headed across the street to the Sheraton National Hotel, owned by right-wing Korean cult leader Sun Myung-Moon, to meet some of the war's most fervent supporters at the College Republican National Convention.

In conversations with at least twenty College Republicans about the war in Iraq, I listened as they lip-synched discredited cant about "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here." Many of the young GOP cadres I met described the so-called "war on terror" as nothing less than the cause of their time.

Yet when I asked these College Repulicans why they were not participating in this historical cause, they immediately went into contortions. Asthma. Bad knees from playing catcher in high school. "Medical reasons." "It's not for me." These were some of the excuses College Republicans offered for why they could not fight them "over there." Like the current Republican leaders who skipped out on Vietnam, the GOP's next generation would rather cheerlead from the sidelines for the war in Iraq while other, less privileged young men and women fight and die.

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[Onceler]

There are a few future Dick Cheney's in there.

 

[evince]

Lies and more lies.

What is it the makes these young people find lies more enthralling than truth.

They are seen the same way as the Young Rs we used to make fun of back in Veitnam era.

Now they have created two generations deep of Americans that equate the R party with opertunist, lying scumbags.

Good job R party!

 

[Battleborne]

Huffington Post..oh yeah baby...

 

[ib1yysguy]

Those guys are going to grow up and run against and smear an actual vet who did serve in Iraq.

 

[Cancel7]

There are a few future Dick Cheney's in there.

Don't you love the one who is explaining that "everybody" feels attracted to the same sex, you just have to pray and it will pass?

That's a future Ted Haggard.

 

[Cancel7]

Those guys are going to grow up and run against and smear an actual vet who did serve in Iraq.

You know what, that is so true.

 

[Thorn]

Those guys are going to grow up and run against and smear an actual vet who did serve in Iraq.

I especially "liked" the quote from the person who said "It's not for me." You're right, sadly!

 

[Onceler]

"It's not for me"...yeah, as though there are people whose "thing" it is to nervously patrol foreign, desert roads, wondering if an IED is going to blow their legs off at any second. It's a real fetish.

 

[uscitizen]

It was not for me either, but the draft board said differently....

 

[Cancel5]

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They follow the leaders, Bush, Cheney and Co!

 

[Cancel5]

You know what, that is so true.

Sadly and sickingly so!

 

[Cancel5]

It was not for me either, but the draft board said differently....

I am sorry, that is way it was with my hubby, not enough money to go to school, so he went to war.

 

[blackascoal]

The good news was how few of them there were, which had to be disheartening to the likes Tom Delay (R-Money Laundering) and others who put this charade together.