Viet Nam Military Draft

Viet Nam Military Draft

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John Edwards, who is also running for president, didn’t get many questions about his military record when he was Kerry’s running mate in 2004, thanks to all the focus being on Kerry and Bush.

“And because of the time I came along and graduated from high school and then went to college, I was not drafted. “During that time, he did spend several years as a missionary for his church in France.
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“A younger Mitt Romney became eligible for the draft in 1970, but his number was not called in the military draft,” Romney spokesman Kevin Madden said. The son and grandson of admirals, McCain graduated from the Naval Academy and served 22 years in the Navy, including five and a half as a prisoner of war in Hanoi.
. Giuliani, on the other hand — who had a 2-to-1 advantage over McCain in an ABC poll of Republicans this week — could find his record subjected to the sort of intense scrutiny that Bush experienced in 2004. Barack Obama broadband mobile pdf system was only 14 when the Vietnam War ended. “Who knows?” he told The Examiner.
said: Giuliani is just another chickenhawk who is all to eager to ask others to make sacrifices he wouldn't.
John McCain and Ron Paul are the only candidates I would trust in that position.
By contrast, McCain has long been feted as a bona fide war hero for his harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison. Feb 28, 2007 9:04 PM (295 days ago) by Bill Sammon, The Examiner WASHINGTON (Map, News) - If this presidential campaign is anything like the last, John McCain’s Vietnam service will inevitably be contrasted with GOP rival Rudy Giuliani’s avoidance of a war that he opposed. “I did not serve in the military,” Edwards said in an April 2004 interview with Katie Couric, who then asked if he had a high lottery number. I guess he thinks his politically expedient photo-op walk thru Manhattan during 9-11 qualifies him as a tough leader against our enemies but that is not the case. ” But the senator from Massachusetts later dropped out of the race. Although critics say such deferments were rare, the Giuliani campaign disagrees.

”The “false modesty” remark was an allusion to the Arizona senator’s extensive military background. a draft dodger that wants to "protect" anyone when he avoided it when it was his turn.
Kerry spokeswoman Amy Brundage said this week that “2008 should be a choice between candidates’ visions on ending the war in Iraq. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as a woman, was not subject to the draft that would complicate her future husband’s White House bid.
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Giuliani fits that same mold, he seems eager to prove that he can protect me.

That he uses that staged performance to promote his candidacy confirms he is weak in conviction, lacking of moral fiber, bereft of ideas and nothing more then a political hack who will use anyone's pain, blood or sorrow to further his own ambitions. It was the least he should have done since he did little else to protect the city, a known target of terrorists, in the 8 years following the first failed attack on the WTC.

Good thing we avoided (gasp) socialized medicine. ”During the Vietnam War, Romney divided his time between college and overseas work for the Mormon church.

That status eluded Kerry when his combat record was challenged by Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth, who also denounced the Democrat for accusing fellow Vietnam veterans of war crimes. “Giuliani received special treatment from a friendly federal judge to avoid military service during the Vietnam war, when thousands of less fortunate people were dying,” they wrote. . ” She added: “That conversation must not be stolen by partisan front groups that use lying, despicable attack ads to smear the records of those who have served in uniform.
Bush, Dick Cheney all took paths to avoid military service that would have placed themselves in any kind of dangerous duty, yet are/were willing to put others in that same situation.