Was Dick Cheney a draft-dodger?
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5 draft deferments; the reasons being, quote "...other priorities...".\nYeah, I'd say he was a draft dodger.
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Don't believe the hype. There is not going to be a draft. There is only one nutjob who wants it,and thats Democrat Charlie Rangel. The dems just took back the senate,and the house,and they're not going to screw it up by reinstating the draft,and if for some reason they decided to commit political suicide, Bush would still veto it. It's just one nut trying to stir things up,don't worry about it.
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The Vice President, currently Dick Cheney, is President of the U.S. Senate.
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No, there is no draft, therefore they signed up of their own freewill. It does not exempt them.\n\nBanger, seriously since you asked this under law & ethics and are getting alot of yes's verus my only no- please post under military, perhaps active duty people or vets can help you better.
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Thanks for answering the question too!!  You had me wondering what the answer was.  I knew it was the mainly the Democrats that wanted the draft before and the administration that didn't.  Wonder how it got confused?
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Dick Cheney is the Elmer Fudd of our generation.
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Cheney may be a mean-spirited, soulless SOB, but at least he is competent. I think his worldview is screwed up beyond all belief, and he is utterly clueless about Iraq, but he does have some understanding of how the government functions.\n\nDan Quayle can barely spell and makes George W look like a rhetorical genius. \n"I didn't live in this century"?\n"If we do not succeed, we will fail"?\nAnd Buzz Lukens walking on the moon.
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Were you hunting with Dick Cheney this weekend?\n\nHe said it was an accident.
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haha, lol. yeah, i heard about Cheney. When he shot the guy, he hit him in a heart muscle, and now hes in the hospital after he had a heart attack. poor guy...
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I can't speak with 100% certainty on Perle's opinions of Cheney because he is known for not telling the truth on occassion.\n\nHe recently came out in a Vanity Fair interview basically thrashing the administration's mishandling of the Iraqi War and the administration's reasons for invading Iraq. I, knowing his history, think he is doing this in an attempt to rewrite history hoping to erase his part in the failed pre-emptive Iraqi War.\n\nHis statements printed by Vanity Fair may sound like a legit opinion coming from the ex-chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a Pentagon advisory group, and a former assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan; but, it's not. \n\nThe reason it's not a viable opinion is due to Perle's statements out of his own mouth before the Iraqi War. You would have thought he was a Cheney clone. \n\nHere is an example. This comes from an interview with him by PBS's Wideangle in July of 2002.\n\nNotice how he is majorly promoting the idea that Al Qaeda and Iraq are tied together... just as Cheney was doing at this time.\n\n"James P. Rubin: Well, you've just seen Gwynne Roberts' film. And it raises some very explosive charges. I wonder if you could help us connect the dots. Why should the American people be concerned and what should they think having seen this film?\n\nRichard Perle: Well, the thing that is brought home so clearly in this film is the connection among terrorist organizations now implicating Saddam Hussein directly with Al Qaeda, with a global terrorist movement that ultimately wishes to destroy the United States. What I think we're discovering is that terrorists, like criminals, are in touch with one another around the globe. I think if a safe cracker in Phoenix needs a safe cracker in Manchester, England, somehow they connect (Laughs). And the terrorists are connecting. They're working together, they're reinforcing one another, and they're sharing their tradecraft. And the result is that if we are going to prevail over the terrorists, we have to take them seriously wherever they are and we have to take this war to them in their countries, on their territory. Because if we have to stand and fight on our own territory, many Americans will die in the process.\n\nJames P. Rubin: You've been an advocate of intervention in Iraq. And one of the arguments you've used is that if we wait, that someday Saddam Hussein will transfer weapons like biological weapons to terrorist organizations. Having seen the film, do you think there is now a new rationale for early military action against Saddam Hussein?\n\nRichard Perle: Well, the film of course confirms one's worst fears and apprehensions. Because the thing that many of us have speculated about is happening. There is that interchange. It is likely that chemical weapons, biological weapons in the possession of the Iraqis derived during the cold war from the Soviet Union are now being disseminated to terrorists. I don't see how we can ignore those connections that are made so clear in this film. So every day we wait is a day during which a plan may well be forming that could result in the deaths of a great many Americans. Time is not on our side."
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Cheney got 5 (count 'em, FIVE) deferments because he was in business school. (He's not as old as he looks.) He told one interviewer later on that he had "other priorities" besides serving his country. (So did a lot of other people, but they didn't have the luxury of a choice.)\n\nBush jumped to the top of a waiting list of 500 to get in the Texas Air Nat'l Guard despite scoring in the 25th percentile on the test (as low as you could score) and having NO relevant experience. The unit he was in was called the "Champagne Unit" and "Air Canada" because it was where prominent Texas politicans (including Democrat Lloyd Bentsen) stashed their sons to keep them from having to go to Vietnam. He then went AWOL for a year and got out early without fulfilling his obligation.\n\nDid they dodge the draft? You decide.\n\nBy the way, I don't believe that military service should be a requirement for the Presidency, but if there's a draft, you support the war and/or your parent is voting to send other people's children off to die, you'd better either go or be doing something to stop it. Bill Clinton's behavior wasn't exactly exemplary, but at least he did oppose the war - he didn't sit cheering it on from the sideliens.
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i'm thinking he avoided the draft because he was enrolled in college the time. he received his B.A. in 1973.
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Clinton was elected twice and he was a draft dodger. But these are different times. I do support the war but I want the Pentagon making the decisions about war, not Capital Hill. I thought we learned that lesson in Vietnam?
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Draft dodgers?  I know of a very infamous wannabee leader of a nation who pulled all kinds of strings and family connections to avoid being sent to Vietnam.  What gets me is those so-called patriots who backed him up actually called a Vietnam veteran a traitor.  Calling glass Bushes...........come in......glass Bushes......
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Ask Dick (Cheney) & Don (Rumsfeld)
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there is no draft. maybe he just moved away and told you that he got drafted and you believed him because you are gullable.
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No, Dick (the draft dodger) likes 28 gauge.