The same charge has been laid against Cheney. Given that virtually all the children the national elites avoided service during that war—a relative handful of Ivy league graduates were commisioned, compared with the thousands during WWII—I can’t single out Guilani for special blame. But, of course, sentiment sentiment, unique to all of us and in this matter none is more correct than another.
Cheney hasn’t actively campaigned for the job of President, but at least he did serve as a congressman, a Defense Secretary, and Vice President, which certainly gives him more qualifications than a freaking mayor to comment on Vietnam.