This is the article from the San Francisco Examiner that Rush
read a portion of on today's (2/19) show.  Too bad he didn't read
the entire article, the closing line illustrates a shift in the
opinions of a growing group of liberals.
Special Note to R. Andrew Hooten I:
       Rush did not write this material.  It appeared in the San
       Francisco Examiner.  Note that the quoted material is
       separated from my words by dashed lines.  Kapeesh!
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San Francisco Examiner
Bill & Scud's excellent adventure
Rob Mirse, Examiner Columnist
Feb. 18, 1998
THE NATION'S leading draft dodger is about to lead the nation
into war.
You could put it that way, but a lot of kids back in the '60s
were avoiding a rotten war by any means they could. So let's be
more charitable to President Clinton.  This guy got the best
deferment of all during the Vietnam War. Sure, he wheedled his
way into ROTC after he got his draft notice, and then wormed his
way out of ROTC when the draft lottery gave better odds to avoid
the quagmire. But that was a minor game of draft-card monte. 
Clinton's military service was deferred 30 years so he could
enter as commander-in-chief and bomb the Third World country of
his choice.
Be all you can be. B.S. all you can B.S.
You've got to admit, Clinton is slicker than the rest of us
baby-boomers. All I got was a six-month delayed enlistment to
recover from mononucleosis before reporting to Parris Island to
have my head shaved.  Having heard Clinton's speech on Tuesday
steeling the American people for war with Iraq, it's interesting
to look back at the letter he wrote Col. Eugene Holmes, director
of the University of Arkansas ROTC program, on Dec. 3, 1969.
It was a time when the U.S. was bombing another recalcitrant
little country, but the letter is mostly about the anguish of
ambitious young Bill Clinton.  The letter is alternately whining,
confessional, principled, self-pitying and misleading. In a way,
it's more a preview of how Clinton would deal with issues of
sodomy than issues of Saddam.
At one point, young Bill ended a passage on his commitment to
public service with:  "But the particulars of my personal life
are not nearly as important to me as the principles involved."
Enough about Bill, what about his principled angst? He wrote of
his pain at getting a deferment for joining ROTC after receiving
his draft notice.  "(T)he anguish and loss of my self-regard and
self-confidence really set in.  I hardly slept for weeks and kept
going by eating compulsively . . ."
That sounds believable.
Then Clinton told how he stayed up all night writing a letter to
the head of his draft board  "stating that I couldn't do ROTC
after all and would he please draft me as soon as possible."
Then El Schmucko wrote:
"I never mailed that letter, but I did carry it on me every day
until I got on the plane to return to England. I didn't mail the
letter because I didn't see, in the end, how my going in the Army
and maybe going to Vietnam would achieve anything except a
feeling that I had punished myself and gotten what I deserved. So
I came back to England to try to make something of this second
year of my Rhodes scholarship."
Aww. Pity poor Bill. Feel the pain he felt at Oxford.  The
sufferings of Bill Clinton weren't for naught. He maintained his
"political viability,"  as he said in his letter, and became
president. Now, like Lyndon Johnson before him, he has learned to
love moving model aircraft carriers around a board.
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