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It is going to occur sooner than you think. He has glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive brain tumor that almost never is completely resected surgically. Or treatable with radiotherapy or chemotherapy enough to cure it.
It is harsh to say it but the reality is he wont be around with us for long.
”One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest-income level of America and the highest-income level found a doctor that would say they had a bone spur.
“That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.”
The college deferments were a disgusting trick to protect the middle classes and the wealthy. and the medical should have only been allowed with a panel, that allowed our doctor to provide input and or a vote.
trump with 4 school and 1 medical should have been barred from public office for life. He was a traitor as bad as anyone one who fled across the border.
McCain is a mess. The ethics of draft deferrals aside, if you're now the POTUS, you shouldn't be allowed to institute a draft for national security purposes because you never served??? That is about the most loony rationale that I've come across recently (I think Johnny has been talking to Aunt Maxine recently) and one that threatens to leave us all less safe.
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I love it! Calling out Trump for the coward he is. Donald Trump's rich daddy was able to get little Donnie multiple deferments to avoid serving in Vietnam.
Trump had the same student deferment that all full time college students had, and the he had a 1-Y medical, which made him "qualified for service only in time of war or national emergency." He had a lottery number in 1969, it was just a high number. And even if he had been drafted, he likely would have been a REMF because of the prior deferment and because his family had political connections.
Only 25% of the troops used in the entire Southeast Asia theater were conscripted, and of that number, only 38% saw service inside Vietnam.
And oh by the way, there has never been, nor is there currently a prior "military service with direct combat experience" requirement for being an elected official in the United States. Ask Bill Clinton and Barack Obama...nether of them served, and I seem to recall both of them being POTUS as well. Should we go into the rather long and sordid history of Bill Clinton and the Vietnam draft?
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Pres. Bone Spurs and Vietnam
