And in the case of Romney, you know, if you're a war hawk, what about your sons, you know?

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Mr. Powell's war-hawk foes seemed to me both bullying and unrealistic.

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He worked alongside British director Ridley Scott on the war movie Black Hawk Down, describing him as "an unbelieveably cool person".

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He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit of courts for many years.

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The Predator, however, may be supplanted in any Gulf war by the Global Hawk, which can loiter for more than 24 hours at high altitude over a battlefield.

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Now he is closely associated with those policies that the Democrats, and (more worryingly) some unaligned voters, most despise, including the Iraq war (Mr Cheney has been an unabashed hawk) and America's gigantic deficit.

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Cardinal Martino is not a hawk by any means, and he harshly opposed the war to liberate Iraq.

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Anti-war activists, who rallied round him in the Democratic primaries because he was the only top-tier candidate to have opposed the Iraq war from the outset, now see worrying signs that their hero is a closet hawk.

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Murtha is a former hawk who has become a national symbol of the Democrats' anger over the war in Iraq, a view that Pelosi shares.

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