Mitt Romney dodged the draft during the Vietnam War.

[matmar]

He ran off to France with a butler, a chef and a chauffeur to evangelize his crazy-assed cult of Mormonism while other less fortunate sons went to war in his stead.

This coward wants to be Commander in Chief of a military he doesn't want to fund (he hides his money from taxes in Swiss bank accounts) and refused to be a part of when the sh*t was hitting the fan back when he was of age to serve the country he doesn't want to pay for.

[liberal N proud]

1. That's OK in the minds of the right wing war mongers.

They prefere to send others kids to fight their wars.

[NNN0LHI]

14. That doesn't describe the "True Believers", I know

The ones I know gladly encouraged their kids to enlist when Bush was president.

That way they didn't have the kids bugging them when they sat in the taverns getting drunk and singing Karaoke.

Don

[liberal N proud]

15. Are the true believers you know also RICH

it is the "true believers" who go and fight the wars of the rich right wingers.

They have been hoodwinked by the establishment that God and Country and to protect the wealthy. Something I have never understood.

[NNN0LHI]

16. Upper middle class

[mucifer]

2. Yeah well w deserted and pretty much no one cared

[HereSince1628]

3. Does anyone have info on how many deferments he took?

I'm sure its out there somewhere...

[Brother Buzz]

6. Three years academic deferments with two and a half years mission deferment sandwiched in the middle

I'm not sure how that translates to in numbers of deferments.

[HereSince1628]

12. thnx. I can't remember how the terms of a deferment worked

and I wondered if he had gotten several--one to start college, one for his religious mission and maybe another for college after his religious mission.

[whathehell]

4. Did he really tale a maid, butler and chauffeur?

Yep, he's just one of us "real" Americans who
"understands" America better than the President.

[thelordofhell]

7. And his Mormon "mission" was spent in a Castle

[whathehell]

9. OMG.

That must have been a tough assignment.

Pampered little prince.

[riverwalker]

5. yeah but

I bet one of his FIVE sons have served in Iraq or Aphganistan, right? No?
His father must have served in WW2 I bet, everyone fought in the big one. No?
Well, he must have an uncle who served then. No. Korea? Vietnam? No.
His grandfather must have fought in WW1, huh? Nope.
The Civil War? Spanish American War? Nope.

[Mendocino]

10. One distant ancestor fought in

the Revolutionary War.

For the British.

[HereSince1628]

11. I served with a guy named Romney who claimed to be related to George Romney

We were at RRFS #1 in northern Virginia in mid 73. I can't remember his first name, when I knew him he was a 'ditty-bopper' -- a Morse code interceptor.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. That's why he went to France

[retread]

13. Not just satisfied to dodge he also demonstrated IN FAVOR of the draft.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083002/Mitt-Romney-19-demonstrated-favour-Vietnam-War-draft.html