Posted on 03/01/2007 10:56:15 PM PST by George W. Bush
I am not necessarily disagreeing with your premise, but the times and circumstances were much different. I would never choose McCain over any other candidate just because he served in Nam. By your logic, you must have voted for Kerry.
Virtually everyone knew enough about military tactics to know that the way Johnson and Nixon were running things from Washington was wrong.
Mr. Hildabeast (the Masterbaiter) overcame true Draft Dodging, and enough idiots voted him in twice! ! !
A country that doesn't have the b@lls to prosecute people like Jane Fonda and Bill Clinton has no business sending young men into combat halfway around the world.
I can assure you that "military tactics" were the furthest thing from Rudy Giuliani's mind when he got that deferment.
Not an issue. Cheney did about the same. Heck, a lot of navy joiners then, including a lot of people close to me, chose to be 'safe'.. But still serve.
I think Rudy might even be able to use this as an advantage and claim that Vietnam should never have been a draft. It clearly was started with WW2 thinking.
I wonder how this will play out.
McCain raising it is a cheap shot, like what really hurt the Kerry campaign with the lesbian comment.
I know some side liners that went Bush in 04 cause of how Cheney just said 'thank you' and how it was a low blow.
McCain's a war hero, he needs to use that as an asset, never as something to put another candidate down as. That should be below him.
LOL. He really made that assinine statement? Or, rather, his handlers made the obedient lapdog say that.
As Borat indicated to Rolling Stone, "You can tell those dumb Christians anything, and they'll believe it."
Tactical and strategic in Rudyspeak means this lisping liberal twit's "military strategy" will employ the same "tactical expertise" he used to rid NYC of squeegee men.
Get off the public stage, Rudy, your time is up. Your attempts to feed your massive ego have become laughable.
That'll leave a mark.
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...as far back as 1993, when he ran for mayor of New York City, Giuliani was dogged by accusations that he pulled strings to avoid the draft. In fact, Rudy wangled a rare occupational deferment from serving in the Vietnam war in 1969, when he was a law clerk.
However, scheming to get an occupational deferment is a far cry from present-day Rudy's assertions, that he opposed the Viet war on "tactical and strategic grounds."
Egocentric Rudy's "tactical and strategic grounds" blather is nothing but a naked attempt to pump his resume in the the absence of solid military credentials.
In a Kerryesque-like statement, Giuliani once said of the Vietnam war, "I disagreed with it."
Anyone who dismisses the significance of Vietnam as a potential issue in the 2008 campaign is forgetting how surprisingly potent it proved in 2004, when there was enormous interest in the military records of both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
Hope so---that was the intent.
Maybe he had "other priorities".
Its funny how the media gets interested in military service when it negatively affects a Republican ,where was the interest for Bill Clinton, and for that matter Hillary Or Barrack Obama
I do get tired of this spin.
How about "the network used documents that were shown to almost certainly be forgeries."
The spin this article uses makes it sound as if the documents might indeed be genuine. Few except Dan Rather try to make such arguments.
Identifying a problem, then developing and implementing a method for solving it is the essence of tactics. Rudy demonstrated brilliantly as mayor his ability to do this, almost always against the desperate resistance of the elite of the city.
Many of the greatest military leaders of history have been amateurs. I suspect Rudy would be able to function quite effectively in a military leadership role.
You could carry your argument a little further and say that the dumbest of the smart (the ones who went to college) were education majors and ended up teaching their liberal principals to our kids.
BTTT
Which Democrat candidate do you expect to raise this issue?
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