Let's be very clear: Bush was a DRAFT-DODGER

[markses]

No, he did not split to Canada, but he was a draft-dodger nonetheless. And I know I'll hear that I'm disrespecting National Guard units, and all that, but I think even many of those that chose the National Guard out in those days must admit it to themselves: They were avoiding, or dodging, the draft.

The draft "dodgers" - or resisters - who split for Canada were even more courageous than draft dodger Bush. They at least put their futures at stake. They became fugitives, and nobody knew then that an amnesty would be later declared. Bush, on the other hand, was a true DODGER of the draft. He used every tool in his power to avoid being drafted and sent to Vietnam, and even then the risk of his future was very low. The man is a coward, and has always been a coward, and it is, quite frankly, as simple as that.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. No, technically he was a deserter.

[markses]

2. The one does not cancel the other

And there is no "technical" category for "draft dodger." Bush avoided the draft and Vietnam. He's a draft dodger. He may be a deserter as well, but that's a different story.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Agreed, but yours is a more "nuanced" case to make!

[Lefty48197]

3. Technically, he didn't dodge the draft when he went AWOL

ok, somebody beat me to it...

[markses]

6. Missing the point

He dodged the draft when he pulled strings to get into the guard.

[gulliver]

5. And one who supported the war he dodged. n/t

[lagniappe]

7. Coward is the most fitting description for the man.

He was afraid to serve in Vietnam. He pissed his pants when the nation was under attack. He needed Dick Cheney to hold his hand in front of the 9/11 commission. He is afraid to face unfriendly reporters. He is afraid to debate.

Bush is brave only when others are doing the fighting. The man is a disgrace.

[independentpiney]

8. Him and Cheney were both draft dodgers

Of the worst sort...They avoided serving in a war they supported. Which by default makes them both chickenshits. Why this isn't being talked about more, I can't understand.

[mr_du04]

9. you are so right

It takes a real coward to support the war and then dodge the draft. Now if he wasn't such a chickenhawk then we could respect his not wanting to go to Nam. The thugs tried for so long to convince people that Clinton was a draft dodger when in reality he wasn't in all probabilty going to get called anyway and we never saw him rush into war like bunnypants did. Evertime one of your freeper friends brings up Kerry's honorable service record and tries to trash him on it just remind them that chinken George went AWOL from the national guard he couldn't even handle one weekend a month.

[EST]

10. Since we now have definitive, anecdotal evidence

via the Salon story, I think we need to shift the arguement a little. Now we know he is a deserter and the records were sanitized. What else is funny, is over at the freeper site, they haven't even picked up on this new story!