TAM DALYELL
(Sir Thomas Dalyell, 11th Baronet)
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The term “Chicken Hawk” was also used by Ron Paul in the Republican Presidential Nomination Debates in 2012. Of the 8 candidates in the debate, he was the only one opposed to military intervention abroad and he was the only candidate who had served in the military. Many Chicken Hawks not only never served but applied for deferments and used other techniques to avoid military service. The origin of the term is uncertain but it entered print in the late 1980s and was applies to Vice President Dan Quayle why was a strong war supporter but had used family connections to gain admission to the Indiana National Guard and thus avoid service in the Vietnam War,
The Blair Administration issued a "Report" they had "obtained" supporting the American.
Sir Thomas Dalyell, 11th Baronet, known as Tam Dalyell, was a Scottish Labour Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005. He represented West Lothian from 1962 to 1983, then Linlithgow from 1983 to 2005. He is particularly well known for his formulation of what came to be known as the "West Lothian question", on whether non-English MPs should be able to vote upon English-only matters after political devolution. He was also known for his anti-war, anti-imperialist views, opposing the Falklands War, the Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War.
