[the invisib1e hand]

Jimmy Carter's first official act as president was the signing of Executive Order 4483 --less than an hour after his inauguration on 21 January 1977. EO 4483 provided general amnesty for draft evaders, war protesters and other offenders of that era.

OMG. I'm too young to remember Carter's early years. Wow. I thought the Clinton era was deplorable! I'm glad I didn't understand things like this in Carter's day. Didn't the sane citizenry collectively shake their heads and moan, "what have we done" when he pulled things like this?

[EagleUSA]

Yes, Carter, another product of liberal mental illness, did exactly that, which was probably the mechanism that negated some of the impact of Kerry's behavior. The opinion I hear is that Kerry was "asked to resign" which did not produce an Honorable Discharge. And Carter turned that around yield some form of letter for Kerry's service record that "pardoned" the situation.

It is my opinion that if we were to fully open Kerry military record, you would find exactly that...and not a normal honorable discharge as the rest of us received.

Carter was/is a utopian liberal lout. Kerry is not much different other than Carter was not a traitor.

[Mike Fieschko]

EO 4483 provided general amnesty for draft evaders, war protesters and other offenders of that era.

Executive Order 4483 does not pardon "war protestors or other offenders of that era" unless they were convicted of violating the Selective Service Act.