Mitt Romney got four deferrals to get out of fighting in Vietnam (president, Clinton)
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As a Vet who served during the VN war & had friends who did not return from VN, I care.
Unlike "Bubba", Mittens cheered on the war & supported the draft. He found time to protest against those who protested against the war & yet was to chicken **** to serve. He's just another chicken hawk who's gun ho about sending others to fight more wars for the rich.
As for the economy. In that the repuqs have fought against all proposals by the President to create jobs, the economy is in their lap. Remember no lip, rat face McConnell's proclamation that his number one priority was to deny President Obama a second term, even if it meant bringing down the country. Only Idiots would blame President Obama for an economy that was brought about by his predecessor.
As a Vet who served during the VN war & had friends who did not return from VN, I care. Unlike "Bubba", Mittens cheered on the war & supported the draft. He found time to protest against those who protested against the war & yet was to chicken **** to serve. He's just another chicken hawk who's gun ho about sending others to fight more wars for the rich.
As for the economy. In that the repuqs have fought against all proposals by the President to create jobs, the economy is in their lap. Remember no lip, rat face McConnell's proclamation that his number one priority was to deny President Obama a second term, even if it meant bringing down the country. Only Idiots would blame President Obama for an economy that was brought about by his predecessor.
That's precisely it.
Bill Clinton didn't think anybody should be dying in Vietnam.
Mitt Romney did -- and he wanted the law to require people to go serve and, inevitably in some cases, die. Other people, of course. Not him.
I guess Mitt had 'other priorities', too.
"I had otherpriorities in the 60s than military service."
--Dick Cheney
Newsflash, Mitt and Dick -- every draftee who got shipped to Southeast Asia had other priorities, too. Conveniently, you two supported laws forcing those draftees to serve -- laws you two had the means to avoid. The fact that you did so legally doesn't mean you're not morally culpable hypocrites.
Oh, and what were Mitt Romney's pressing priorities? Living in Paris, trying to convince the French that Joseph Smith was a prophet. Nice priorities, Mitt...
Anyone tried to get out of going to Vietnam. Only those who had no alternatives went. I remember the lottery system....and they called the numbers during the nightly news....you had to live during that time...no one can judge him on that....
Saying only those with no alternatives went is doing a HUGE disservice (and is a slap in the face) to those men and women who enlisted knowing they would be sent to Vietnam.
Please tell the class what a deferral is and why they're given. Thanks.
Deferrals were given for having a strongly held religious belief in the immorality of war, or considered it a sin to kill or pacificism. You also could get a deferment if you did mission work, were a religious leader or a minister or priest or monk.( the Mittster could have taken one of these) You also got them for mental or physical disability or if you were a convicted felon (People who got this one include Rushbo and Arlo Gutherie) . Another ground was you were a student in a higher school because virtually all majors were considered national security related.(Romney coul have taken this one too) There was a deferment for people who were married (a real incntive for getting hitched the earliest moment you could (Leroy Newton Gingrich married his high school teacher the days after graduation, Dick Cheney took this way out as well). There was the old man deferral. If your Dad or Grandaddy had some pull with the Draft Board (Draft Boards were local and made up of distinguished citizens in you community) one could be arrainged for no reason at all as a courtesy by the Board. If you served in ROTC (You just didn't take the ROTC schoarship and bailed out or washed out before it was too late) Guard or Reserves that kept you out of the Draft ad often got you a nice state side slot like Dan Quayle or George W Bush.
Anyone tried to get out of going to Vietnam. Only those who had no alternatives went. I remember the lottery system....and they called the numbers during the nightly news....you had to live during that time...no one can judge him on that....
Well, I enlisted at 17 in 1966 ... and volunteered specifically for a hazardous duty specialty and volunteered to go to Vietnam.
Got what I asked for too.
Was home from my first tour before my 19th birthday.
Three I served with came home in boxes ... and two of my pilots are still there unrecovered.
But I'll tell you one duty I'd never volunteer for: President of the United States.
Just plain haven't got the sack for it myself.
Minister of religion and Missionary Work, and academic deferrments.
He then drew a high lottery number in the draft lottery after the deferrments ran out.
So, Mittens didn't serve partially because of deferrments, and partially because he was one lucky s.o.b.
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