Subj : Re: Ethics test
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 13:11:05

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John Iwaniszek wrote:

> Trouble wrote:

>> I find it HARD to equate someone who dodged the draft by signing a
>> piece of paper committing them to service, and then getting out of
>> said agreememnt without serving a single day to be of far less
>> valuable service to his country than the guy who put in 5+ years of
>> service and then left AFTER the US ceased combat operations in
>> Vietnam. 
 
>> http://www.hillnews.com/york/090904.aspx

> Nothing about Bush's "service" was hard.  He flew for approximately two 
> years, 

Just two years? John he was in training for almost two years, and served 
for 5 years. Read the article.

> skipped aprox. five months, lost his flight status, then quit 
> before his original commitment was up.

Which was just as acceptable at the time in the National Guard as some 
guy keeping Clinton's Draft notice in his desk for a few months while 
Clinton went to Oxford.

> He supported the war, but explicitly refused to seve in Vietnam.

And other than a lack of 'total' comittment to his beliefs, which few 
people are 'actually' willing to die for, its not illegal. What's the 
problem. 
 
> Clinton did not suport the war and did everything in his power to 
> legally avoid being drafted.

And then once he got drafted he did everyting he could do to get out of 
that.

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

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