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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (148390)10/20/2004 5:28:25 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
<< He was of age, and managed to ensure that he wasn't available to the draft board. Not once, not twice but SIX times.>>

<<1962 NOVEMBER 19: Cheney is arrested for drunk driving. (see the police court docket on the Smoking Gun website )>>

WOW, he got a DUI 42 years ago, that's important today.

<<1967 JANUARY: Cheney turns 26 and is no longer eligible for the draft.>>

What? Did you quit aging at 25?



To: Michael Watkins who wrote (148390)10/20/2004 5:55:22 PM
From: Bill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
The only reason Kerry didn't get his extra deferrments, like Cheney, is that DEMOCRAT President LBJ escalated the war in 1967. Prior to then, educational and hardship deferments were standard practice and easily obtained.

Of course, Kerry figured he could avoid Nam by joining the reserves. But even he didn't expect LBJ to escalate so much that he had to activate the reserves. But he did.

Too bad Kerry wasn't born two years earlier, eh?



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