[The Great RJ]

Gee, our last president lied to avoid the draft and then went to Europe and lead anti-US protests there. Nooo... problem nothing to see here.

Bush did what a lot of people did in the early 1970's --served in the National Guard rather than be drafted and go to Viet Nam. Many of my friends did the same particularly those whose draft lottery numbers were low. Did he use family connections to get a more cushy Guard assignment?--probably, but so did anyone else who had connections. No one seems to mind that Al Gore used his connections to get a relatively cushy journalists assignment in 'Nam.

The hypocracy of the media on this issue just screams.

[laconic]

For every one that used his "connections" to get in the NG and avoid Vietnam service, someone else went in their stead. It wasn't a decision without implications, often deadly, for others. I hope those that did use their connections to save their own tails spend a minute or two thinking about it sometime, in the quiet of their family homes that their replacements never had.