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[quote]zecarlo wrote:
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[quote]angry chicken wrote:
MOST victims of bullies have weak, liberal parents [/quote]
Yeah, this, just like everything else, is about political affiliation.
Jesus.[/quote]
Al Gore, John Kerry: Vietnam vets.
Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh: Draft dodgers.
Muhammad Ali: Conscientious objector.
One of my “liberal” English professors: Vietnam vet.
My Grandfather, the English professor: WW2 vet.
The Chinese protestor: who stood up to a tank.
Who exactly among the above are the cowards? [/quote]
You are.
Why did you call Muhammad Ali a “conscientious objector” while Rush, Rove, and Cheney are “draft dodgers” ?
Are they not guilty of the same thing, except that one of them is a brotha ? [/quote]
No. The difference is, on the one hand, saying you won’t fight, outright and in public and with given reasons as to why, and on the other hand, trying to get away with not fighting without anybody noticing while ostensibly supporting the war.
Another difference would be that one of them didn’t want anything to do with war when he was young and still felt that same way when he was old, whereas they others didn’t want anything to do with war when they were young and then didn’t seem to mind the whole war thing when they got older and were too fat and decrepit to even be considered for military service.
For the record, none of those mentioned were actually “draft dodgers.” But they did all finds way to get out of combat service, as did many other men.[/quote]
Just like all the liberals in College. Guys the rules are the rules. My Father-in-law chose not to go to college and he was drafted and went to Vietnam.
You guys are saying Cheney, Limbaugh, etc got the rules changed just for them. This is a LIE. The Draft was a lottery, and the way to get your name lower in the lottery was to do certain things.
Zecarlo LIED and he has been called on his LIE. Get over it.
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What are you talking about? “You guys are saying [they] got the rules changed just for them.” I never said anything of the sort. I said exactly, and I mean exactly what happened. I literally wrote that none of the people mentioned had been draft dodgers.
The point is that, no, it’s not the same thing to come out and say you’re not fighting in some war that you think is fucking stupid, and these are the reasons why, and fuck you if you don’t like it; and it’s another thing to use the rules that exist to avoid combat, and then turn around and orchestrate wars later in your life. This is not a legal assessment, it’s a moral one.[/quote]
I am with him on this one.
Chicken hawks disgust me.
Teddy Roosevelts reaction to “rich guys dont fight in wars” was “fuck you, I am going”.
And he went.[/quote]
I see yalls point. But lets look at this from my perspective.
My Father did not go to Vietnam nor was he even eligible for the draft. My father was an only child, and his father died from a WWII related injury when he was 11 years old. So if what you are saying is true, my father was a chicken shit because he decided not to volunteer to go to Vietnam. My father picked up his friends from the airport when the libtards were spitting on the vets that were coming home.
Sorry guys it is more of a chicken shit to stay at home and spit on and call vets baby killers, than to orchestrate a war because the US including the entire Congress (Republicans and Democrats) voted for said war.[/quote]
But thats not what Bush or Clinton did, or is it?
Now Gore went.
He did not have too, but he did on the grounds that if he would not go, someone else would.
So did Kerry who was smeared by people who did their very best to avoid service.
I am not saying that they should have gone, or that Vietnam was a war worth fighting, but both have the moral authority to send troops.
You cannot puss out and later in life tell people to risk their lives for even less.
At least you should not be able too. [/quote]
George W Bush went into the National Guard. Clinton went to school and got his Law Degree. I do not know about Cheney, but I would suspect he got a degree. Isn’t cheney 20 years older than W?
If it is about money then Muhammad Ali should of been able to get out of it. Draft Dodgers ran to Canada. Zecarlo you stated “Draft Avoiders” that would encompass everyone that went to college. W joined the National Guard and went to college. Isn’t that what people of means do? Go to College. There were people in College that were drafted, so College was not a full proof way of getting out of service. It just decreases your chance. If you are an only son then your chances drop, so people that only had one son are “Draft Avoiders?” Also if your father died from war you are excluded from the draft if you are an only son.
I did not know this but the Korean War also had a draft. My best friend’s father was drafted and went to Korea.
We all have to sign up for Service at 18 or you lose a lot of benefits in the future.