From: "Gary Britt" 

I never said it was.  I said he didn't volunteer and he didn't.  If one has
a chance to legally avoid being drafted then it takes a CHOICE to decide to
not take the opportunity to avoid service.  By choosing NOT to avoid
service he was making EXACTLY the same decision as the majority of men and
women today when they choose not to volunteer.  He made the CHOICE not to
volunteer by choosing to legally avoid service.

Gary

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:439a1a99{at}w3.nls.net...
> Twasn't a volunteer army back then - nice try - Cheney still a neo-con
punk.
> He's got great timing though - see below
> .
>
> http://www.discourse.net/archives/2004/10/short_dick_cheney.html
>
> Between 1963 and '65, Cheney used his student status at Casper College and
> the University of Wyoming to apply for and receive four 2-S draft
> deferments. As the war in Vietnam heated up, Cheney fought to defend and
> expand his deferments. Twenty-two days after Congress approved the Gulf of
> Tonkin resolution in August 1964, raising the prospect of a rapid
expansion
> of the draft, he "coincidentally"-in the words of a Washington Post
> profile-married Lynne. The advantage was that even if his student
deferment
> was lifted, his married status might carry some weight with his draft
board.
>
> But the Vietnamese were not cooperating with Cheney's schemes. The war
kept
> demanding more and more young American men, and the range of those who
were
> eligible for the draft expanded rapidly. On May 19, 1965, Cheney was
> reclassified with the most dangerous draft status: 1-A, "available for
> military service." Soon afterward, Lyndon Johnson announced that draft
> call-ups would double, and on October 26, Selective Service constraints on
> the drafting of childless married men were lifted. Danang was calling. And
> it didn't look like Dick had any excuses left.
> But there was one way for ambitious young men to avoid serving their
country
> while maintaining their political viability. If Cheney had a child, he'd
be
> reclassified 3-A, removing him from the pool of those likely to be
drafted.
> Cheney needed a kid-quick. And he got one. Precisely nine months and two
> days after the Selective Service eliminated special protections for
> childless married men, Cheney was no longer childless. His daughter
> Elizabeth was born on July 28, 1966. Convenient? Coincidence?
>
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:439a17d7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Nope.  He just didn't volunteer.  Their are a majority of young men and
> > women today that aren't volunteering today, last year, next year, etc to
> > serve their country at a time of war.  None of them will be properly
> > classified as neo-con punks.  Nor should they be.  Just like Cheney.
They
> > are absolutely no different than what Cheney did.
> >
> > There are plenty of people who did serve that should never be allowed
> > anywhere near command and authority.  Kerry is one.  Murtha is another.
> > My
> > Brother would be a third.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> > news:4399f2a4{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> Yeah right  Neo-con patriotism at it's finest.  Cheney punked out.  Not
> >> enough heart to be either a protestor or to serve.
> >>
> >> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
> >> news:4399eee9{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> > An all time record high majority of voting citizens disagreed with
your
> >> > assessment below.
> >> >
> >> > I say Cheney was a lot more honest about his Vietnam
service than was
> >> > Kerry.
> >> > Kerry tried to puff up 4 months of cowardice under fire and three
> >> > scratches
> >> > into a heroic military career, and then lied every time somebody
asked
> > him
> >> > about his traitorous actions after having returned to the USA.
> >> >
> >> > Recently he's been trying to do a reprise of these
traitorous actions
> >> > by
> >> > accusing the men and women fighting in Iraq of war crimes.
> >> >
> >> > He is a self-admitted war criminal, so that sort of outweighs
Cheney's
> >> > legal
> >> > use of means to avoid service.
> >> >
> >> > Lots of people have better things to do today as well Rich.  They
just
> >> > don't
> >> > volunteer to serve.  Neither did Cheney.
> >> >
> >> > Gary
> >> >
> >> > "Rich Gauszka" 
wrote in message
> >> > news:4399e28b{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> >> and so we elected a neo-punk  for VP who had "
better things to do"
> > than
> >> >> serve his country when it counted. I know I know
he's just heartless
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> "Gary Britt"
 wrote in message
> >> >> news:4399deaf{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> >> > Heck there was a presidential candidate who
based his entire
> >> >> > campaign
> >> >> > on
> >> > 4
> >> >> > months of boat driving and 3 Band-Aids, each
covered with a purple
> >> > heart.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Gary
> >> >> >
> >> >> > "Phil Payne"
 wrote in
message
> >> >> > news:4399d402{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> >> >> >  He also jokingly said that the only
reason he was awarded the
> >> >> >> > CMH
> >> > was
> >> >> >> that
> >> >> >> > they thought he was dead after his
plane was shot down over
> > Rabual.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I know some one who won the Congressional
Medal of Honor for
> >> >> >> arguing
> >> >> >> about
> >> >> > a
> >> >> >> baseball game.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> --
> >> >> >>   Phil Payne
> >> >> >>   http://www.isham-research.co.uk
> >> >> >>   +44 7833 654 800
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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