The warmongering cabal called themselves “The Vulcans” in honor of their belligerent brand of US imperialism. Their members included Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, Elliott Abrams, John Bolton, and Rumsfeld’s advisers Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz. Critics called them the “Chicken Hawks” because ironically, each one of them had draft-dodged the Vietnam War.
