Who You Callin' A Chickenhawk?

It's so funny how these backseat drivers who want to dictate the rules of war but don't have a license to drive or a even car get so offended when you call them on it.

Cindy Sheehan has returned to Crawford, Texas, and brought back with her all the questions she's raised about the Bush administration's war in Iraq. One issue that's clearly ruffled the feathers of conservatives is the word 'chickenhawk,' which has risen in prominence since Sheehan began to demand that those who are gung-ho about the war should pick up a gun and replace a grunt in the midst of his third rotation.

Fresh-faced pundit Ben Shapiro and Jonah Goldberg of the National Review are among the conservative commentators who have pecked angrily at the 'chickenhawk' assertion, arguing that just because they're not fighting in the war doesn't mean they can't support it. Goldberg clucked last week that 'arguments must stand on their own merits, regardless of who delivers them,' while in a two-part series titled, 'Why the 'chickenhawk' argument is un-American,' Shapiro squawked that for liberals to mock supporters of the war who haven't served in the military 'undermines fundamental values of representative democracy.'
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Chickenhawk, chickenshit or just plain chicken. People of age who feel so strongly about the war should enlist and serve! Period!