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

To: tejek who wrote (643382)	10/12/2004 7:21:56 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

stolenhonor.com

To: tejek who wrote (643382)	10/12/2004 8:02:04 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

kerry the liar, the racist candidate... richmond.edu john kerry: "We saw that many people in this country had a one-sided idea of who was kept free by our flag, as blacks provided the highest percentage of casualties." All a lie. And the same myth of the poor being repeated today.. vietnam-war.info Myth: A disproportionate number of blacks were killed in the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Colonel Edward P. Drummond, Jr.86% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasians, 12.5% were black, 1.2% were other races. Sociologists Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler, in their recently published book "All That We Can Be," said they analyzed the claim that blacks were used like cannon fodder during Vietnam "and can report definitely that this charge is untrue. Black fatalities amounted to 12 percent of all Americans killed in Southeast Asia - a figure proportional to the number of blacks in the U.S. population at the time and slightly lower than the proportion of blacks in the Army at the close of the war." Myth: The war was fought largely by the poor and uneducated. Servicemen who went to Vietnam from well-to-do areas had a slightly elevated risk of dying because they were more likely to be pilots or infantry officers.

To: tejek who wrote (643382)	10/12/2004 9:02:01 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 769670

too bad terry mcauliffe isn't on the list.... or robert byrd or jesse jackson or al sharpton or john edwards or al franken or howard stern or peter jennings or tom brokaw or dan rather

To: tejek who wrote (643382)	10/12/2004 10:00:24 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

That proves conclusively that you don't have to serve to be a great leader, even in wartime. You left someone off your list who I consider to be very important: FDR: Did not serve. Isn't it more interesting to see what the record is of Presidents, since that's what we're electing? Bill Cli'ton did not serve (in the military, anyway). Funny how Bush and his father's military records BOTH exceed those of Cli'ton and FDR, isn't it? Really ironic for all you new warhawks. Here's the whole scoop: 12 presidents did not serve in the military---John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, Polk, , Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR and Clinton. Cleveland actually paid someone to fight in his place during the Civil War which was legal and not all that unusual at the time--a kind of pay as you go family deferment). For an interesting chart of all of them, go to geocities.com