No kidding. I saw that tripe too, and just had to respond. Hesiod's use of the terms chickenhawk, chickenblogger coop, etc. is wide spread and indiscriminate. He uses it to apply to all those who think war with Iraq might be a necessity.

He is a disgusting sleazy jerk.

From the "mind" of Heesey:
"HOW DO YOU SPELL IRONY?: Today, President Bush scoffed at the vote by Iraq's parliament. He called it, now get this, "nothing but a rubber stamp for Saddam Hussein."

Well, he should know. He's an expert on "rubber stamp" legislative bodies."

I'd call him a dumbass, but I wouldn't want to insult the dumbasses.

I was in the Australian Army during the Vietnam war and volunteered for service there and I think we should wipe Saddam off the face of the earth. But so what?

Well, that answered the question I asked over at Steve's -- Hesiod has NEVER bothered to determine the ability to serve of those he calls "chickenhawks".

What a (s)tool.

Addlepatted (Hesiod) has comments up on his blog. Go have some fun.

Besides the fact that the chickenhawk argument is inherently sexist, as women are not allowed to serve in combat positions.

But I digress: Doc, when Hesiod linked to one of my Hulk posts (for which I called him a poseur for mentioning the tv show instead of the comic book), I got over 100 hits, fairly quickly. A lot of people read his site.

Don't stop. They need to know what a liar and hypocrite he is.

Don't forget that "chickenhawk" is also is a homophobic slur, insofar as openly gay people who support the war cannot serve.

I guess to be consistent, Hesiod must either be a policeman or else refrain from opposing crime. And I presume he either spent time in the peace corps or else refuses, on moral grounds, to oppose world hunger. Wouldn't want to be a hypocrite here.

I also seem to recall that "Chickenhawk" is a pejorative term for older men that cruise for young male prostitutes. MOre homophobia.

The thing I find most offensive about the whole "chickenhawk" argument (Hesiod being but one of the many who mouth it) is that the same people who now claim that only those who've served are qualified to call for it:

1. Proposed and supported the nuclear freeze movement, despite the overwhelming OBJECTION of the military;
2. Ignore the military when it calls for things like increased funding (since, presumably, they have some idea of what they need and what the shortfalls are);
3. Backed Albright (who's never served) against Powell (who was in 'Nam) on the subject of use-of-force against Serbia, both in Bosnia AND Kosovo.

I also wonder just how many military people those who use the term know? Because it's my experience that most political opinions within society (albeit very few of the Hesiod type) are actually reflected within the military. I've met extreme liberals who tend to oppose the use of force, middle-of-the-roaders, raving conservatives, NRA and NARAL types, etc.

Finally, on the specific issue of Iraq, there's been, AFAIK, NO scientific poll of the military to determine what most people in the military, or even military retirees, think. The closest was a poll of readers of Defense News/Army Times/Navy Times/Etc. I don't have the URL anymore, but the results were strikingly slanted IN FAVOR of war w/ Iraq, beyond the general public. Not sure what that means (readers of these newspapers tend to be officers, usually fairly to very senior ones), but it certainly does NOT suggest that the military, as a whole, is different from the stance of "warbloggers".

If you think Hesiod's bad, check on some of the other crapweasels Alterman links to. Here's a link to a post on my blog about one of the worst, at "Bush Watch":

http://baseballcrank.blogspot.com/2002_10_13_baseballcrank_archive.html#82987644

(Sorry, not sure how to turn that into a working link).

As far as I'm concerned, the best answer to Hesiod is from the WB: "I'm a chicken hawk and you're my victim - are you gonna come quiet, or do I have to muss ya up?"

Meryl,

Instapundit had a link to hezzzzzzod's site that day, as well as someone else (don't recall), so he had a highly increased amount of traffic that day, pointing folks to that hulk reference which in turn had a link to your site. I know because that's how *I* read about it.

When hezzzzzzod had your basic slam with a link to my site, I got about 20 hits (total), or what I get from Henry Hanks in about two hours.

I dare say that if folks to the right of Jim Jeffords stopped going to his site, he'd lose the vast majority of his linkage.

Ricky,

Oh. In that case, then Doc, keep on doing it because it's fucking hilarious.

;-)

Well, fwiw, Hesiod appears to have decided to just stop talking about the state of the Chinese banking system and state-owned enterprises. I was never very clear about what he was getting at, especially when he linked it (somehow) to the Bush Administration.

But the pity of it is that it really IS an important issue, one that deserves more attention, from all sides of the spectrum.