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Rudy and Romney: Artful dodgers
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When the most belligerent Republicans start to beat the war drums, it's important to look at what they're trying to hide.
Both Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani have draft dodging as part of their political resume. From Salon.com: Nothing unites the Republican candidates for president or excites the conservative base more than their bellicose barking about war and confrontation. The GOP presidential debates often sound like a tough-man competition, with Rudolph Giuliani denouncing the "cut-and-run" Democrats, Mitt Romney demanding a double-size Guantánamo detention camp, and the rest of the pack struggling to keep pace with the snarling alpha dogs. Yet while their rhetoric is invariably loud and aggressive, none of these martial orators has seen a day of military service. The Republican party seems to prefer its hawks to be of the chicken variety. Consider Giuliani, the former New York mayor who has remained among the most vocal supporters of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. He never hesitates to suggest that politicians with differing opinions simply lack guts. When he spoke at the 2004 Republican convention, he gleefully insinuated that Democratic nominee John Kerry lacked the fortitude to combat terrorism. Now he denigrates the supposedly spineless Democrats running for president in 2008. But he has always confined his enthusiasm for war to podium speeches and position papers. Born in 1944, young Rudy was highly eligible for military service when he reached his 20s during the Vietnam War. He did not volunteer for combat -- as Kerry did -- and instead found a highly creative way to dodge the draft. |
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Any distinction between the
Any distinction between the draft record of President Clinton and that
of Governor Romney is one basically one without a difference. Both utilized legitimate deferments and then ended up with high lottery numbers in the first 69 draft lottery (Romney at 300, Clinton at 3l8 out of a maximum of 366). They never received an order for induction.
On the other hand, unlike President Clinton who agreed to enter to ROTC
at U Arkansas Law School but, getting a high lottery number before he hand to be sworn in, backed out of this agreement which would have given him further deferment, Governor Romney never said he would do something to avoid induction and then failed to follow through due to a fortuitious.
And do not, please do not tell me, President Clinton did not have any combat KIA or WIA during his term in office. President Clinton did lie
about, and US Soldiers died in Somalia October l983. President Clinton told the American people that those US Soldiers had all of the weapons they had asked for and needed to execute the mission he has tasked them with. The truth was he had refused to deploy the Abrams Ml Main Battle Tanks General Hoar, CINC USCENTCOM, asked for and told the President he needed to execute the new mission with which President Clinton had tasked USCENTCOM in Somalia.
And US military personnel deployed by President Clinton died in the Balkans protecting islamofacists.
The only nice thing to say about President Clinton, who also let military pay and benefits take a serious cut in terms of actual dollars during his administration, and what happened in Somalia is that a lot less US military personnel died that died ten years earlier under that brain dead
rectal orifice reagan.
The way things are going we will next read from your ilk that Senator John McCain, III, sat out the Vietnam War in comforts provided by the NVA enemy. That would be as plausible as the racist apoplexy of the US left over PFC Jessica Lynch's rescue when, all of sudden a medical system it has complained about being destroyed by a decade plus of UN sanctions, became a wonderful medical system capable of providing the best possible medical care available for PFC Lynch.
Grow up and get your facts straight.
they should both go to iraq
they should both go to iraq together to fight the enemy. the last thing we need are more cowards from the republican party.