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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject	5/19/2001 2:36:47 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (3) of 769670

The National Guard argument is, at best, silly. Would anyone accuse someone who joined the Navy in anticipation of a draft notice, or joined the Air Force but never flew a plane (at least 98% of that service) of dodging anything. I know a guy who was drafted at the height of the war and spent his entire hitch driving a staff car in Seattle. Al Gore was kept out of harm's way even though he was in-country, but that couldn't have had anything to do with his father sitting on the committee appropriating money for the war effort, could it? Neither Al Gore, the guy in the staff car, nor the tens of thousands of sailors deserve the "coward" label (last positive thing you will hear me say about the Gore family). Those wise guys who ran away (Clinton) deserve that label, without a doubt. And it's human nature for them to attempt to justify their cowardice for the rest of their lives. We pity them for their weakness-both intellectual and personal-and TRY, not always successfully, not to elect them president. But it's also an American tradition to let such bygones be bygones after a conflict. Clinton's damage to his country was extensive and manifest, but happened decades after the war...

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