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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (442)	7/5/1999 1:22:00 AM
From: chalu2	Respond to of 769670

I didn't join during peacetime, and I don't fault anyone who doesn't join up now. My best school friend joined the army, and I wouldn't vote for him for dog catcher either! What's bothering me is how many of our would-be leaders wound up in these coveted Guard slots--we all have to agree it's disproportionate. If these men knew special privileges were given them because of who their fathers were, this shows a lack of character. There are men who risked their lives despite wealth and privilege--I've named some--John Kennedy, George Bush, and I'll have to even say Al Gore (I guess his unit in Vietnam had a fair chance of seeing combat duty). Indeed, it's pretty unsettling to me as a Republican that there are pictures of Al Gore in uniform in Vietnam, but no candidate on the Republican side other than McCain can produce the same.