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To: brushwud who wrote (201025)	9/11/2012 11:16:35 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 542009

I have no problems with Vietnam draft dodgers - I AM one. But, I was also totally against the Vietnam war, protested and worked to end it, as did Bill Clinton. Mitt Romney was FOR the war, as was Dick Cheney, but they both dodged serving in the war they supported - they let other young men die. Apples and oranges. My father, who served in WWII, at first thought my actions were shameful and cowardly. Years later, he admitted I had done the right thing, and that was a war we never should have entered, a CRIMINAL war.

To: brushwud who wrote (201025)	9/12/2012 1:04:37 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 542009

<<That sign Romney's carrying says, "Speak Out, Don't Sit In". It doesn't say Bomb Vietnam back to the Stone Age, or Support the Draft. I can imagine giving a student similar advice -- go ahead and demonstrate, burn your draft card, even cut class to demonstrate and burn your draft card, but why obstruct other students in their pursuit of partial differential equations or romantic poetry?>. I am sure Romney carried that sign of his own volition, not at his fathers direction. Like when he got the long hair down and cut his hair. The reason for the protests being active, is that our country, our society, was killing innocent people! Maybe a bit more important than romantic poetry.