Now they hate Abe Lincoln?

Spending waaaay too much time at World o' Crap's brilliant site, but happenened to come across this tidbit of wingnuttery, as the "hottest young conservative writers on the internets" try to explain away their chickenhawkery.

Ben's words were a little more law schoolery-like:

The Constitution provides that civilians control the military. The president of the United States is commander-in-chief, whether or not he has served in the military. Congress controls the purse strings and declares war, no matter whether any of its members have served in the military or not. For foreign policy doves to high-handedly declare that military service is a prerequisite to a hawkish foreign policy mindset is not only dangerous, but directly conflicts with the Constitution itself.

Back to Jack:

Aside from decimating the entire idea of civilian control over the military, this concept would have precluded some rather important figures in American history from serving their country--President Lincoln, for example, would rank among the moral pygmies without the authority to support a war.

Oddly enough, VBen also mentioned Lincoln:

By the leftist logic, here are some other "chickenhawks": John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson and Bill Clinton.[emphasis, you know]

Hmmm. Abe Lincoln. Draft dodger?

Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. 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. His law partner said of him, "His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest."

Oddly, Lincoln as a Congressman, said of President Polk's little war of choice, the Mexican-American War -- which he opposed -- that the war was Polk's desire for "military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood."