Tam Dalyell Quotes
This is garbage from right-wing think-tanks stuffed with chicken hawks -- men who have never seen the horror of war but are in love with the idea of war.
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,
Tam Dalyell, Scottish Member of British Parliament (Labour), Quoted in London Sunday Herald, September 15th, 2002
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Gingrich, who avoided serving in the military throughout his life, was frequently opining on military matters, tactics and strategy in his speeches, media appearances and many writings. Generally, he was a Chicken Hawk {625110} urging military action and war although he had personally never experienced it. He spent much time in military meetings and conferences, and thought that he had developed some expertise from this and his extensive reading.
The three leading “hawks” of the administration and the architects of the Iraq War. However, not only had none of them ever been in combat, but none had ever served on active duty in the military. None of the three had been drafted or enlisted during the Vietnam war except for Bush who was accepted into the Texas Air National Guard; parts of his service record has been last, but he never was outside the United States. Murtha, John Kerry, John McCain and many of the administration's critics were all decorated war heroes who had been wounded in action.
Coughlin was a great admirer of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and the Fascists. He was one of the American “heroes” in Nazi Germany, receiving assistance from the Nazi government. Between his anti-Semitism and support for Hitler, Fascism and radical socialism, the Vatican ordered him off the air and shut down his political demagoguery.
Goldwater was the Republican Nominee for President and Kilpatrick a Journalist & Columnist. Both were leading conservatives of their time.
Agree resigned from the CIA in protest to its political positions.
Actually, there have been “paranoid” fear of opposition political viewpoints in America very often. In the early days of the Republic, the Federalists main concern was not England or other foreign enemies, but Jefferson’s Democratic Republicans. And those Jeffersonians were absolutely convinced that the greatest danger to America was the Federalists who would bring back a monarchy if they could. The Jacksonians triggered a similar polarization. The Civil War stemmed from this extreme. Even America’s most popular President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was elected to 4 successive terms, was perceived as the major “enemy” of America along with his wife Eleanor and the other New Dealers.
Over time, this has been a good description of the difference between the Democratic and Republican parties.
The Republican party had lurched so far to the right, that a Republican like Reagan could never win the nomination even though he could likely win a national election.
So far as he was concerned, Republican moderates—his own party members—were liberals. Anyone who did not support the extreme Conservative agenda, was an enemy and a liberal. He and the Tea Party drove almost all the moderate Republicans out of the party.
70 years after Fascism was defeated in Italy, there were still a number of right wing politicians who still espoused some of the Fascist principles. “Abjure” means to repudiate.
The Republicans in the previous decades had gone so far to the right and were so opposed to anything the government might do, that they could not support anything that might be constructive for the country if it might look like the Government was capable of something positive. They accomplished almost nothing as a result, and the nation was gridlocked.
- Born: August 9, 1932
- Died: January 26, 2017
- Nationality: Scottish
- Profession:
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.
