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Kerry defends Clinton's draft dodging

 
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:32 pm    Post subject: Kerry defends Clinton's draft dodging Reply with quote
The Boston Globe carried an article on 3/13/92 in which Senator Kerry defended Bill Clinton's efforts to avoid the draft. Now he calls George Bush "AWOL". In 1992, Kerry had this to say about Clinton:
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As for Clinton's actions to avoid the draft, "the fact is that in 1969, when I gather it all took place . . . there was a lot of war yet to fight.

"I lost a lot of friends after 1969, and as I recall Americans were still being killed up to 1973," he said. "Bill Clinton's name went into the draft. If Bill Clinton's number had been 1 to 120 he was gone. People are forgetting that. I mean, the fact is he put his name in the draft.

"Damn it all, that was a tough time. A lot of people decided never to put their name in the draft. So it's unfair to say he was a draft-dodger," Kerry said.


My goodness, Mr. Kerry, why can't you find the same graiousness when speaking of President Bush?
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm not sur Kerry's statement about Clinton is correct or there may be more to the story than he's telling.

I remember Clinton joining the ROTC to get a deferment and then he never attended and later admitted he never intended to attend. He just wanted the deferment.

I can't remember all the details but Kerry may have been stretching the truth again. Wink
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