Quote:....Draft dodging coward? I assume you're talking about Bill Clinton...
Sorry, asswipe. Wrong draft-dodging coward.
Get your head out of your ass.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_...ckenha.htm
Quote:Vice President Dick Cheney used every trick he could to evade the draft and military service altogether during the Vietnam War. His evasion of service has significant ramifications in his execution of the Iraq War. Americans should demand more in their vice president.
There doesn't seem to be much that Cheney wouldn't do to avoid service in Vietnam. Cheney applied for and received four draft deferments for being a student at Casper College and University of Wyoming between 1963 and 1965. On August 7, 1964, Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which greatly increased Cheney's chance of being drafted, but 22 days later, he married Lynne. At the time, married men were exempt from being drafted. Hence if student deferments were to become disallowed, his marriage might still decrease his chances of being drafted. But the war kept demanding more troops, and the number of people eligible for the draft rapidly expanded. On May 19, 1965, Cheney was reclassified with the most dangerous draft status. On July 28, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson announced that the number of people drafted would double. Then on October 26, 1965, the Selective Service announced that it would start drafting married men with no children. Married men with children were still exempt from the draft. Exactly nine months and two days later, Cheney's first daughter, Elizabeth, was born. During the first trimester of Lynne's pregnancy, Cheney applied for and received another draft deferment. Altogether, Cheney finagled five draft deferments.
This isn't what Cheney recalled in 1989 during a Senate confirmation hearing to be secretary of defense to the first President Bush. Cheney was questioned about his failure to serve and responded, "I would have obviously been happy to serve had I been called." Cheney admitted in the same year to a Washington Post reporter that he "had other priorities in the 60s than military service." Cheney said he had "other priorities" than military service, but many brave men from Cheney's hometown of Casper, Wyoming, such as Specialist 4 Richard Sweeney, Gunnery Sergeant Robert Grove, and Captain Carlton Holland, served instead of Cheney and died in Vietnam. Cheney was busy with his "other priorities" while supporting the war in which he was too lily-livered to fight.
Chickenhawkism is rampant among republicunts.
If you don't like "Chickenhawk" maybe you prefer "War Wimp?"
Quote:a war wimp as "someone who is all too willing to send others to war, but never got 'round to going himself".
