Subj : Re: Ethics test
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 12:14:16

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John Iwaniszek wrote:

> Trouble wrote:
>> John Iwaniszek wrote:
 
>>> Clinton had an academic deferrment.  He didn't dodge the draft any
>>> more that Cheney did with his family deferrment, he was never drafted
>>> to begin with.  He was studying abroad.   What's magic about using a 
>>> deferrment at a US school?
 
>> Try getting the story straight, his educational S-2 status ended in
>> 1968 when he became 1-A available for service, he used family
>> connections to get a much desired slot in the reserves (Navy), then
>> failed to comply with the terms of that committment, sound familiar
 
> "Failed" does not fairly characterize it.  It sounds like 
> contemporaries judged it less harshly then you are judging it now.

I'm not judging it harshly, what I'm trying to get you to realize is that 
the exact same thing is true for Bush.

If you read the Hill article Bush contemporaries judged him less harshly 
than you do now...

http://www.hillnews.com/york/090904.aspx
 
>> John; 
 
>> http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/politics/clintondraft.asp
  
>> Clinton recieved his induction notice, and jouned ROTC to get a 1-D 
>> reservist deferrement. There was much maneuvering used to get this 
>> deferrment and then Clinton still balked at his obligation.
 
> All perfectly legal and apparently part of a widely understood system.  
> Something you can't say about Bush' s performance.

Wrong Again, people of the time say that's exactly what happened, we 
didn't need Combat pilots to go to Vietnam in 1973, there were National 
Guard pilots all over the place with nothing to do.

-- 
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought."
--Basho

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