I knew a lot of rich people who served in Nam and a lot of poor with educational deferments, this was not a rich poor thing, that’s the argument the Dems always use. The NG was then and is now an honorable way to serve this country.
The issue with Rudy, as with Clinton, isn’t so much that each of them avoided service in Vietnam. It is the circumstances surrounding their attempts to avoid service or to gain deferments. Clinton’s record is shot through with cowardice and deceit; Rudy’s deferment appears to to have been jury rigged.
“I knew a lot of rich people who served in Nam and a lot of poor with educational deferments,”.
True. In fact Colin Powell’s comments in the matter cited above by ‘ketsu’ are lib boilerplate. ( aka “Bullshit” for those of you in Rio Linda)