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APRIL 28--Despite Donald Trump’s claim this week that he avoided serving in the Vietnam War solely due to a high draft number, Selective Service records show that the purported presidential aspirant actually received a series of student deferments while in college and then topped those off with a medical deferment after graduation that helped spare him from fighting for his country, The Smoking Gun has learned. During a TV interview Tuesday morning, Trump--who spent his high school years enrolled at the New York Military Academy--said, “I actually got lucky because I had a very high draft number. I’ll never forget,...

As the New York Times has reported, Connecticut Attorney General and Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal remained stateside during the Vietnam War thanks to five deferments he obtained, the last of which enabled him to take a job in the Nixon White House. During research for my book The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate (Doubleday 2008), I uncovered some documents that showed Blumenthal, then a staff lawyer for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a key domestic policy adviser to the president, had aroused the suspicions of Attorney General Mitchell. The year was 1969, and the country was wracked by...

Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Senate Candidate From Connecticut, Misstated Service Record Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat who is running for the United States Senate from Connecticut, never served in Vietnam, despite statements to the contrary. The Times has found that he obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war. “We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008. “And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it...

Anyone know how Biden got out of the draft during the Vietnam War?

Sunday, August 24, 2008 OBAMA-BIDEN: FIRST TIME IN 68 YEARS A TICKET WITH NO MILITARY EXPERIENCE Posted by: Michael Medved at 2:18 AM THE OBAMA-BIDEN TICKET IS THE FIRST TICKET OF EITHER MAJOR PARTY IN SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS IN WHICH NEITHER THE CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT EVER SERVED IN THE MILITARY! At a time of war, the Democrats give us something the nation hasn't seen in more than two generations: a ticket where neither of the the running mates ever wore a uniform of any kind. Shouldn't Republicans make a big deal of this? Consider the history-- 2004 -- GOP -- Bush...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Eugene J. Holmes, a retired Army colonel who accused Bill Clinton (news - web sites) of deceiving him in order to dodge the Vietnam War draft, has died at age 88. Holmes, who survived the Bataan Death March during World War II, died Saturday at his Fayetteville home, Moore's Chapel funeral home said. Holmes was director of the University of Arkansas Reserve Officers' Training Corps program in 1969 when Clinton — then a Rhodes scholar attending Oxford University in England — applied to the program to satisfy draft deferments. He never actually enrolled in the program. In...

Does anyone besides Dan Rather and Terry McAuliffe think there is a story in the big blockbuster now threatening to bring down CBS, Dan Rather, the DNC, the Kerry campaign, and every other sleazy liberal sludge slinger? A young George W. Bush, (eldest son of Sr. statesmen George H. Bush) may have gotten special treatment in the Guard 30 years ago, and this is “news”? What is it about this story that is so potentially damning towards Bush, that Democrats were willing to forge documents in order to level the charge? Only in this 2004 election, where Presidential candidate George...

LINK post #19BTW - Today on CSpan2 John O'Neill mentioned that JFK got 4 deferments before being turned down for Paris study. He then joined the Navy. So his remark about Cheney's 5 deferments takes on a new twist.LINK post #47I keep hearing that Cheney got 5 deferments. Didn't everyone who went straight through college get 4 deferments, one for each year? Can someone from that era clear that up for me, please.

Despite Clinton's advice to drop the Vietnam topic, Kerry and his subordinates continue to hammer away at GW's ANG service. They need to drop this, because a comparison of Bush and Kerry on this topic is not flattering to Kerry. This is what one voter has learned from digging around a bit on this issue. Please check this over and contribute corrections and suggestions. Bush Kerry Not available in WW-II, college deferments began during the Korea War, along with deferments for other situations. The Selective Service even admitted during the Vietnam War that this was intentional, in an infamous document...

As Democratic hopeful John Kerry whines about the Swift Boat Veterans questioning his Vietnam “war service,” more revelations have surfaced which challenge the legitimacy of his first Purple Heart. The Senator claims that that medal was received because of enemy fire he took, but his own personal diary contradicts that assertion. While the Senator’s supporters tried unsuccessfully to portray President Bush as being “AWOL” during the Vietnam War, they won’t address the fact that Kerry tried to defer his military service at that time for 12 months. And what would Kerry and his friends say about the fact that his...

Hurray, Brit Hume really layed it on the line, including audio from Kerry on capital hill. Bravo FNC!!!

Senator John Kerry, the presumed Democratic presidential candidate who is trading on his Vietnam war record to campaign against President George W Bush, tried to defer his military service for a year, according to a newly rediscovered article in a Harvard University newspaper. He wrote to his local recruitment board seeking permission to spend a further 12 months studying in Paris, after completing his degree course at Yale University in the mid-1960s.The revelation appears to undercut Sen Kerry's carefully-cultivated image as a man who willingly served his country in a dangerous war - in supposed contrast to President Bush, who...

Revealed: how 'war hero' Kerry tried to put off Vietnam military duty By Charles Laurence in New York (Filed: 07/03/2004) Senator John Kerry, the presumed Democratic presidential candidate who is trading on his Vietnam war record to campaign against President George W Bush, tried to defer his military service for a year, according to a newly rediscovered article in a Harvard University newspaper. He wrote to his local recruitment board seeking permission to spend a further 12 months studying in Paris, after completing his degree course at Yale University in the mid-1960s. The revelation appears to undercut Sen Kerry's carefully-cultivated...