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To: WOSG
It backfired cuz it reminded the voters that Webb was the real deal a Marine who saw combat and other bizarre stuff in a hell zone while Allen was back in the US chasing sorority girls
71 posted on 11/09/2006 4:35:52 PM PST by Blackirish
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To: Blackirish
Webb's a couple of years younger than me. Unless he went to Nam BEFORE attending the Navy Academy, he got as many draft deferments as just about anybody, but he missed the main year and the greatest battle ~ Tet 68.

Allen, though, is 14 years younger than Webb. He'd have barely made it into the draft, and then only at the tailend of the war.

He ended up getting fewer years of draft deferment than Webb, or me for that matter.

And your point on hanging around with sorority girls was what? Certainly Webb got his share, and probably girls you knew, or wished you knew (back when he was sane) ~ but now he's on his third known wife.

You simply can't win this one. Allen didn't dodge the draft. I didn't dodge the draft. Webb could have exposed himself to greater risk by joining the Marines earlier, but he didn't.

It was a very long war, with many different phases, and the Democrats were totally responsible for it and made all the mistakes anyone could ever make. No one who served in the military in that period could possibly be a patriot and a Democrat today.

73 posted on 11/09/2006 5:27:14 PM PST by muawiyah
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