POTUS 45.30: "Stormy Weather...It Keeps on Rainin' all the Time..."

[GrinCDXX]

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A whole lot of my generation did the deferment thing. Some fled North, some protested, some went to jail, some blew up things, and most served.

Ok, but there's a relatively small subset of those people that now can't get enough of sending other peoples' kids to die in foreign countries. Those are the people that deserve to burn in hell.

[French Rage]

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It's ultimately about hypocrisy. One shouldn't be calling for preemptive war now, when he opposed preemptive war back when he was eligible to serve.

And now claims he totally would have used his awesome karate moves and won the war for us, you don't even know man!, but it was those libs' fault.

[joecct]

It's ultimately about hypocrisy. One shouldn't be calling for preemptive war now, when he opposed preemptive war back when he was eligible to serve.

Theory vs. the real thing. If we could trot every politician to a battlefield the day after so they can smell the stench of the decaying bodies and see the mangled remains of the dead, there would be less who want to send our troops off to a glorious endeavor.

[burd]

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A whole lot of my generation did the deferment thing. Some fled North, some protested, some went to jail, some blew up things, and most served.

My draft number was high enough to avoid being drafted, but I believe nobody from the 1955BY was drafted anyway.

I was '53 (high #), and some of my classmates got the call. I think they only called until '72. If I had been born three years earlier and been drafted, I honestly don't know what choice I would have made. Probably gone, but I certainly don't condemn those who chose CO, jail, or Canada--unless they turned into righteous hypocrites afterward.

My wife and I have been watching Ken Burns' Vietnam series. God what times those were.

[joecct]

I was '53 (high #), and some of my classmates got the call. I think they only called until '72. If I had been born three years earlier and been drafted, I honestly don't know what choice I would have made. Probably gone, but I certainly don't condemn those who chose CO, jail, or Canada--unless they turned into righteous hypocrites afterward.

My wife and I have been watching Ken Burns' Vietnam series. God what times those were.

In January 1942 my Dad knew his draft number was coming up and he had no use for mud, bad food, and people trying to kill him. He figured that by enlisting in the Navy he'd get a clean bunk, good food, and he would be on a ship where there was safety in numbers. If he didn't get that he'd be dead.

Ironically he spent most of the war Stateside but went ashore on Okinawa in June 1945.

[Slap Shot]

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Theory vs. the real thing. If we could trot every politician to a battlefield the day after so they can smell the stench of the decaying bodies and see the mangled remains of the dead, there would be less who want to send our troops off to a glorious endeavor.

It should not be necessary to show the 'remains' of a battlefield for a "dodger" to have enough integrity to not insist upon others that which they themselves would not honor.

[joecct]

It should not be necessary to show the 'remains' of a battlefield for a "dodger" to have enough integrity to not insist upon others that which they themselves would not honor.

Dodger or not, the people who love to blow the bugle rarely know what the consequences are. The last one who knew was Bush 41.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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It should not be necessary to show the 'remains' of a battlefield for a "dodger" to have enough integrity to not insist upon others that which they themselves would not honor.

Why put dodger in quotes? They dodged. Period.

[Slap Shot]

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Dodger or not, the people who love to blow the bugle rarely know what the consequences are. The last one who knew was Bush 41.

Name for me a time in history in which dodgers were so much in control of actually putting our sons/daughters in harms way?

[SonofSouthie]

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Looks like someone got their d*ck caught in their zipper.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/nat...rs_family_firm

[burd]

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Name for me a time in history in which dodgers were so much in control of actually putting our sons/daughters in harms way?

How many men and women have been killed in action in the 45 years since the last soldier died in 'Nam? Not a rhetorical question.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Looks like someone got their d*ck caught in their zipper.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/nat...rs_family_firm

Help me out. I know the Globe leans left. Is the Herald your right-leaning paper, or is it a tabloid like the NY Post?

[jerphisch]

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How many men and women have been killed in action in the 45 years since the last soldier died in 'Nam? Not a rhetorical question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...ualties_of_war

[burd]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...ualties_of_war

Good site. Thx jerpisch

[joecct]

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Obama Youth??

@FoxNews: Barack Obama Hopes for a 'Million Young Obamas' to Lead 'Human Progress' http://bit.ly/2IRpo6V https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/9...712193/photo/1