Posted on 09/03/2004 7:15:01 AM PDT by Bob Hyneman
Cheney’s “five deferments.”
[b][color=orange]In the summer of 1967 D ick Cheney was a married 26 year old man with a daughter.[/color] [/b] Twenty-six year old men cannot be drafted but (gasp) he was married and had a daughter BEFORE he turned 26 and that means he had two deferments!!!
[b](Everyone who had a daughter in 1966 was draft dodger right?).[/b]
Anyway, a half-truth is as good as a truth to John Kerry, so all you need to know is the two deferments part right?
Except, that many many years before the draft, D ick Cheney had also - attended Community College - and then University. Since any slick lawyer-type can tell you transferring schools can legally be counted as two deferments, that brings the total to four. (Never mind that he acquired both of these [b][u]years[/u][/b] before Vietnam was a war, or had draft, or could even be found on the amp by most Americans).
So what is number 5? Well in 1965 the US sent its first contingent of 3,500 Marines to Vietnam. (The draft would begin in earnest in 1966-67), Only a few years earlier in 1964-65, that damn D ick Cheney began applying for graduate schools and grad school acceptance counts as another. (This time Mr. Kerry DID successfully count to five).
So, if you believe John Kerry’s version of events, D ick Cheney began dodging the Vietnam draft five (or six) years before troops were being drafted and sent there. (Look this is politics and ad hominem attacks are allowed but if that is the best you got then you ain't got ad hominems)
[b]The fact is that D ick Cheney: - was accepted to community college - was accepted to the U of Wyoming - was accepted to graduate school - was married - was an expectant father all MORE THAN A YEAR before the draft began.[/b]
I note here that Cheney was married and an expectant father both during grad school and after Kerry COULD count that as SEVEN deferments, (but that would imply the ability to count to seven).
I suppose a 26 year-old daddy with a graduate degree and a newborn daughter COULD have volunteered to go to Vietnam, but I don’t think it is altogether honest to portray him as a draft dodger, do you?
Deferments ? Oh, yeah, Kerry is familar with deferrments, he used them, actively sought them, used all that were available to him and only volunteered when he had no other options. Now, he opposes them.... hum, for/against... for/against. This is beginnning to sound familar.
So, now a legitimate deferral is a "refusal to serve" ? How can that be ? Neither Dick Cheney or George W Bush ever attempted to avoid service. Cheney exercised the same legitimate student deferrals that Kerry employed.
President Bush joined the Air National Guard and became a skilled pilot. By any definition, that is not a "refusal to serve", its military service, especially since units amd personel were called up on a "as needed" basis. Air National Guard service was a legitimate means of meeting and discharging one's military obligation. There were no guarantees. That he was not called up was a matter of fate and timing rather than an active effort to avoid service.
<< Thanks for that correction.
I'm sick of hearing how he "volunteered to go to Vietnam." >>
Me too! The truth is that Kerry volunteered nothing more than to manipulate and game the system in order to avoid going to Vietnam -- and, being the dangerously-dopey-dullard that he is, was out-manipulated, out-gamed and out-smarted BY the system.
Sorry about my profanity, too -- but that mongrel B%$#@^d really gives me the s*&^%%$$#ts!
Which is EXATLY what burns be about the idiot Left--they make it seem as if GHWB was some hotshot Washingtonite, but for all intents and purposes, he was a nobody.
Your husband is correct. No one was drafted from the 1953 year group for VN service.
I support the repairs on my street but I'm not about to go out and fix it.
Bush volunteered for Vietnam also. ANG pilots flew more than 50K combat hours.
Let's face it, we right-wingers are just too darn slick for those lefties! I have successfully avoided the upcoming draft that the Dems keep claiming is going to happen soon, by ensuring that I was born in the mid-1960s, ensuring that I have less-than 20/20 vision, going to college in the 1980s, and then in the most clever ruse, marrying a </gasp> woman and fathering two children. I must have dozens of deferments built up by now! Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to buy some Halliburton stock and then kick some elderly folks out of their homes and eat their food!
I'm thinking a bathhouse in San Francisco...
What were those "active" steps, besides going to college BEFORE the draft started? Clinton lied to his ROTC commander, and actively evaded the draft through shady means. Provide evidence of this comparison being valid.
”Guns Before Butter.”
Yes. All real Americans love Halliburton! In fact, owning its stock should be a requirement for voting!
That "draft issue" is about as bogus as they come, and only raised as an issue so as to scare IGNORANT yutes into believing Iraq is another budding Vietnam!! It simply ain't so...MUD
It must be true, since the Dems keep saying it!
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