Posted on 09/03/2004 7:15:01 AM PDT by Bob Hyneman
Cheney’s “five deferments.”
[b][color=orange]In the summer of 1967 D ick Cheney was a married 26 year old man with a daughter.[/color] [/b] Twenty-six year old men cannot be drafted but (gasp) he was married and had a daughter BEFORE he turned 26 and that means he had two deferments!!!
[b](Everyone who had a daughter in 1966 was draft dodger right?).[/b]
Anyway, a half-truth is as good as a truth to John Kerry, so all you need to know is the two deferments part right?
Except, that many many years before the draft, D ick Cheney had also - attended Community College - and then University. Since any slick lawyer-type can tell you transferring schools can legally be counted as two deferments, that brings the total to four. (Never mind that he acquired both of these [b][u]years[/u][/b] before Vietnam was a war, or had draft, or could even be found on the amp by most Americans).
So what is number 5? Well in 1965 the US sent its first contingent of 3,500 Marines to Vietnam. (The draft would begin in earnest in 1966-67), Only a few years earlier in 1964-65, that damn D ick Cheney began applying for graduate schools and grad school acceptance counts as another. (This time Mr. Kerry DID successfully count to five).
So, if you believe John Kerry’s version of events, D ick Cheney began dodging the Vietnam draft five (or six) years before troops were being drafted and sent there. (Look this is politics and ad hominem attacks are allowed but if that is the best you got then you ain't got ad hominems)
[b]The fact is that D ick Cheney: - was accepted to community college - was accepted to the U of Wyoming - was accepted to graduate school - was married - was an expectant father all MORE THAN A YEAR before the draft began.[/b]
I note here that Cheney was married and an expectant father both during grad school and after Kerry COULD count that as SEVEN deferments, (but that would imply the ability to count to seven).
I suppose a 26 year-old daddy with a graduate degree and a newborn daughter COULD have volunteered to go to Vietnam, but I don’t think it is altogether honest to portray him as a draft dodger, do you?
He was born the same year as I was and there was no-one from my class who was my age who was drafted. There were a few older guys in our class who were but none our age. So I think he is in the same place as Cheney only on the other side.
Wasn't he busy in college '70 - '74 getting some degree or the other so he could go on and become a great ambulance chaser? Actually, I guess he COULD have gone on to Vietnam, if he hadn't had to preserve his litigation viability.
Please post some info on this. I was not aware that Clinton was drafted and then left the USA.
Kerry's a democrat.
My mistake, I thought he was 54, even so, he should have still been able to go in the draft.
Nobody also seems to "get it", that when his student derferment ran out, he joined. Thats what you had to do to avoid the draft. His choices were to be drafted as a private, or join the branch he wanted as an officer. Course there was also the Clinton chice,.....Moscow!
I keep saying to myself he has to get off this VN stuff because it will kill him, but he just hangs on it. Where is the Paris mtg with commies "bullet"? How about the Let's kill some senators "bullet"? If he doesn't want to talk about his senate record, that's fine, lets talk about the VN era record.
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Either you are a liar or your husband dosen't know what he is talking about. I was born in 1953 and I WAS drafted.
Cool. Then John Edwards is a draft dodger! Doesn't surprise me one bit. What'd he do, hide behind his wife's prodigious ass?
Your profile page says Canada. Could it be....??
LOL! Garbage in, garbage out.
Pick up.
Yo, mushhead, you do realize, don't you, that John Kerry had FOUR DEFERMENTS and asked for the FIFTH one to go "study" in Paris, right?
Strange way to spell Arabelle. ;D
No you are a typical misinformed,spreading misinformation.
The funny thing is you are letting yourself be a tool for a privileged slug. Gee I wonder how did Kerry arrive into the Navy and onto Vietnam. He volunteered, thats how. He didn't seek help for admittance to schools he was not qualified to attend (then drop out for low grades)He didn't get married, he didn't knock up his wife.Volunteered to serve his country.
Born Mitchell Airfield,Long Island.
Raised Newark, New Jersey.
Corporate shuffle brought me to Canada.
Hear about being a yankee every other day from Canadians.
To call me a Canadian is a low blow.
Hardly.
The funny thing is you are letting yourself be a tool for a privileged slug.
The privileged slug is John Forbes Kerry.
Gee I wonder how did Kerry arrive into the Navy
He didn't get the fifth deferment he asked for so he could go study with his commie friends in Paris, so he enlisted in the NAVAL RESERVE -- that's right, NOT THE NAVY -- the Naval Reserve
He volunteered, thats how.
He enlisted so he wouldn't be drafted into the Army, dunce.
He didn't seek help for admittance to schools he was not qualified to attend (then drop out for low grades)
Yes, he did; he got in on his family name -- FORBES; and his own father didn't even have the money to pay for it -- his uncles paid for poor little Johnny to be a pretender.
He didn't get married, he didn't knock up his wife.
Neither did George W. Bush.
Volunteered to serve his country.
Face it, he was going to be drafted.
No wonder nobody likes liberals -- people can't stand the ill-informed.
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