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Politics : Err America: They Report, They Decide
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To: Bill who wrote (665)6/1/2006 11:44:56 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (1) of 1513
 
Kerry volunteered for combat and served two tours of duty. He could have used a multitude of tricks like Bush and Cheney and Delay did to avoid the draft, but he was ready to serve his country.

How could Kerry have dodged it? Easy. He had very powerful friends including the Kennedy family and more. His mother was a Forbes cousin (though not a moneyed one). He was a Yalie. All it would have taken were a few phonecalls.

The dirty secret of the 60's was that no rich or well-connected person needed to be drafted if he wanted to try and get out of it. Only the poor and workingclass had to go if they selected.
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