[leadpenny]

Mass55th is right.

There was a draft prior, during and just after Vietnam, however there were only four so-called Vietnam Lotteries. Cheney would not have even come close to the first one, let alone the next three, of being considered.

http://www.sss.gov/lotter1.htm

[deport]

True, but he was still elgible for the draft prior to when the lotteries became the method of selecting for the draft.... He received student deferments up throug 65 I believe. He would have been 26 in 1967.... Vietnam was building up during the mid 60s so there's no reason to believe he would have served in Nam even had he been drafted....

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

There was a draft prior, during and just after Vietnam

Perhaps under some definition of "after Vietnam", but I'm confident that when Nixon discontinued the draft our troops were still engaged.