JustanObserver wrote:Finn d'Abuzz wrote:Yeah man! Let's go kick their rightie butts!
Right On!
Say Truth to The Power!
Gotta admit...
5 deferments for Cheney certainly doesn't look good. He sends our boys to war but didn't answer the call(s) himself.
He sent our boys to war?
You obviously are confusing the Vice President for the President.
I suspect, for some reason, that you are a relatively young man. Perhaps I'm wrong, but if you came of age during the Vietnam War you would know that it was not uncommon for young men to seek any deferment that might be available. I didn't then and I don't know think that this was a sign of their cowardice. I was lucky, the draft was ended a year before I turned 19, many of my friends were not so lucky. When we came along, deferments were gone. If they called your number, you were going.
The interesting thing is that during those days, Liberals would
never criticize anyone for seeking a deferment. In fact, how many today would criticize another Liberal for doing so? Remember Billy Clinton? He sent our boys to war -- didn't he?
For some reason though Liberals have become ultra-patriotic warriors when it comes to conservative politicians who sought the same deferments in their youth as did liberals.
Of course the suggestion could be that the Cheney's of the world are hypocrites who in their youth avoided war but in their dotage, fomented it.
Again, I don't know how old you are, but my bet is that 40 years from now you will not want to be judged on the actions and decisions of your youth. I know that there are numerous actions and positions which I took in my youth of which I am proud, but which I would not agree with now. There are also numerous actions and positions which I took in my youth of which I am now somewhat embarrassed.
If the country made me president when I was 18 I would be quite a different chief executive than if it granted me the position now when I am 52.
Currently we have an all volunteer military; back then we relied upon the draft. Clearly this is a major distinction.
Sending our boys who signed up to fight for their country to war and sending our boys who would be doing anything else possible is quite different. I have great respect for our volunteer army, but I don't have any ill regard for those who sought to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. Who knows what they would have done in the case of a different war and at a different time?
In any case it is a specious argument that the politicians who send young men and women into combat need to have experienced it themselves.
Be against the war in Iraq. There are plenty of reasons to find yourself in such a position without having to manufacture a plethora of inconsequential arguments.