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To: one_less who wrote (144148)	8/26/2004 4:46:54 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

During the Viet-Nam war the National Guard was not a forced option as the draft was but an option for those who wanted to avoid Viet Nam service without the stigma of C.O. or draft dodger. If one were called to armed duty(where killing was necessary) in the National Guard and if one then decided to be a C.O. one risked jail. So it is logical that Bush II was pro Viet Nam war until it can be demonstrated that he said he wasn't(in such a way that it could be heard). Claiming that Bush II was not pro Viet Nam war is equivalent to claiming that Bush II was a hypocrite in that he took the chicken way out. As to your statement "...Many people were in the military who were anti-war and many were in who were neutral...." if you define many as 1, 2, many OK I agree, but your "many" is still a small number. Sneering about Clinton's social engineering experiments is a cheap shot. You mix primary and secondary objectives in your argument. The military has always been a way out of poverty(social engineering), a secondary objective which, by the way, didn't apply to Blacks during and after WWII.

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