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Cheney’s “five deferments.”
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| Sept 3
| Bob Hyneman
Posted on 09/03/2004 7:15:01 AM PDT by Bob Hyneman
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To: xzins
I'm not sure. I'll look into it.
101
posted on
09/03/2004 8:03:32 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: nuconvert
Not like he ran off to Oxford, or anything......
Then he wrote a letter stating that he "LOATHES" the military. Can't remember to whom.
To: jwpjr
Better read your history a bit more closely. George Herbert Walker Bush was a first term congressman from Texas when his son enlisted in the ANG. He did not serve as CIA director until 1976.
103
posted on
09/03/2004 8:04:33 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: doug from upland
so let me understand this...
kerry say the war is wrong, says people behaved like savages, and we should pull out and NOW
he is NOW saying cheney should have went...
can some one explain this to me...
104
posted on
09/03/2004 8:04:36 AM PDT
by
Irishguy
(John Kerry Speak: I didnt not throw anything i threw, but i did.., Yes i dont agree but i dont ...)
To: Congressman Billybob
How DARE you! You sir, are not only a DRAFT-DODGER CHICKENHAWK who received 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6.... yeah.... SIX deferments, but you have absolutely no right to call John Kerry a putz. You did NOT serve ON John Kerry's boat in Vietnam. Only those people who served ON John Kerry's boat in Vietnam can speak to his character! And even if you served on his boat, you are unfit to speak about John Kerry unless your comments are cleared with Kerry-Edwards 2004 first! Ask Steve Gardner!
How DARE you question John Kerry's patriotism!!!!!
/sarcasm
To: vin-one
"...doesn't two tours usually mean that person was actually in country..."
This has been answered many times here on FR. For those in the Navy, serving in the waters off Vietnam (Gridley) was a tour of duty & considered to be 'in country'. The 2 tour item is factual.
106
posted on
09/03/2004 8:05:19 AM PDT
by
familyofman
(people think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time)
To: wideawake
In 1969 troop deployment held steady and in 1972 when Bush was in the National Guard troops were being brought home. I think it was 1973 when it all began to wind down. Chances of Bush or anyone being sent were almost nil at that time.
To: Congressman Billybob
"Honest Joe" (as they call Lieberman in his home state) seems like a pretty good guy. Except for his stand on abortion, he seems to bepretty conservative with his politics.
108
posted on
09/03/2004 8:06:32 AM PDT
by
Big Guy and Rusty 99
("It Takes A Zippo To Raze A Village: The John Kerry Story")
To: Baynative
I'm looking for substantiation ... "When he approached his draft board for permission to study for a year in Paris [deferment], the draft board refused and Kerry decided to enlist in the Navy." Harvard Crimson, February 18, 1970.
109
posted on
09/03/2004 8:08:27 AM PDT
by
Use It Or Lose It
(Swift Boat Veterans for TRUTH...www.swiftvets.com...Donate now!)
To: Austin Willard Wright
Do you mean the Serbian genocide?
To: familyofman
NOT intended as slur on NAVY, but on Kerrycritter's motivation,OK?
To: xzins
College deferments ended with the lottery, unless you had a defense related major or a defense contractor internship. Here many guys got hired at McDonnell Aircraft and stayed out that way.
To: silverleaf
And the Bush's weren't really that connected in terms of old money. Great Grandpappa Bush had some kind of parts manufacturing in Ohio in the late 1800's if I remember correctly. He did all right, but no better than a successful small businessman of today.
113
posted on
09/03/2004 8:12:02 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army and Supporting Bush/Cheney 2004!)
To: xzins; wideawake
Please see the link in my post #35. The draft lottery was most certainly still in effect in early 1973. If Edwards was born in 1953 and not deferred, he was eligible.
114
posted on
09/03/2004 8:12:33 AM PDT
by
LisaFab
To: truthkeeper
Well, what do you expect? This is the same man who served two tours of Vietnam duty in four months."Two tours in Vietnam in 1968 and '69" is the way Kerry was accustomed to putting it, giving the impression he had served two years in combat.
115
posted on
09/03/2004 8:12:37 AM PDT
by
sphinx
To: Austin Willard Wright
Cheney enthusiastically supported the war (he wasn't just neutral) and took *active* steps (much like Clinton did) to stay out of harm's way. Name one active step Cheney took that was designed specifically for the purpose of not being drafted.
And to compare it to Clinton who did just that? Absurd.
To: LisaFab; steve8714
I was born in 1952, so Edward's is just a year younger. Yes...he WAS eligible for the draft. That's what my memory says.
But he was in the LOTTERY era, and someone just said that the deferments ended when the LOTTERY began in 1969.
117
posted on
09/03/2004 8:15:27 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army and Supporting Bush/Cheney 2004!)
To: Austin Willard Wright
Cheney stayed home with 250,000,000 other Americans while we went to war.
1/8th inf 4th ID, 67-68
118
posted on
09/03/2004 8:16:52 AM PDT
by
Ace the Biker
(I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could.)
To: litehaus
At this point, John Kerry would say: "How dare you question my patriotism!?"
*I* question his patriotism. Yep. Every chance I get. I consider him a Communist sympathizer. If people do NOT consider them such, then they are ill-informed. He was part of the Veterans Against the Viet Nam war, a group which wanted to assassinate Senators. He hangs around (or did anyway) with Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda IS a Commie. All you have to do is read some of her remarks to know it.
The people who protested the war in the 1960s and 1970s are some of the same Liberal hate-mongers that are out there spewing their crap (still) and are part and parcel of the "Kerry" movement (Or should I say "Hate Bush Crowd, since they are the same people).
As far as I am concerned, Kerry is a Commie in a Senator's clothing. He voted against weapons systems and support of our troops. That makes him one of the biggest ANTI-PATRIOTS of them all.
119
posted on
09/03/2004 8:18:25 AM PDT
by
Rick.Donaldson
(There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.)
To: xzins
To be perfectly frank, I'm tired of the "Bush avoided serving..." mantra. It is a slap in the face of, and a calumniation of, all the National Guardsmen, both Army and Air Force, as well as Coast Guardsmen who served during that era.
120
posted on
09/03/2004 8:18:33 AM PDT
by
ThomasMore
(Pax et bonum!)
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