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I'm not saying Cheney did a thing wrong or that any accusations that the dems will raise will even make headlines.... They raised them in 2000 along with the President Guard duty and they didn't work.

Cheney didn't graduate in four years... He started at Yale and basically flunked out after two years.... Came back to Casper got a job as a lineman and finally reentered college and graduated in 1965....... During that time he had student deferments which most had that were around during that period and attending college or a deferment as a registrant with a child.... Nothing wrong with that...

The thing they will try again is the same thing from 2000 which is a statement he supposedly made..... It didn't fly then and won't this time either, imo. But the point of this article is they will bring it up most likely as a diversionary tactic just to see what sticks.... But Kerry will have to have a clean VP candidate if they do.

..........“I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service,” Cheney told a reporter in 1989, according to the Washington Post. However, in his Senate confirmation hearing, Cheney said he “would have been obviously happy to serve had I been called.”.......

Basically, I do not see anything wrong with his response. Anyone that had the money to go to Yale obviously had more choices than the majority of those who went into the military. In my 18+ years in the Navy, I did not meet too many guys or gals who had an upper or basic middle class background that joined. The vast majority of those who enlisted had nothing else. Not to say that they were not smart or anything. This just did not have the resources to continue with school - even if they wanted to. I think a wife and kid is considered high priority and I respect Cheney more for his honesty. Also, I do not want you to think I am jumping on your case.