The A-Team

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• President GW Bush - was able to get into the National Guard by leaping ahead of a waiting list of more than 1,000, but apparently went AWOL for at least one year and was later taken off flying status for reasons that have not been made public.
• Vice President Dick Cheney, several deferments, the last by marriage (in his own words, "had other priorities than military service").
• Att'y Gen. John Ashcroft - sought deferment to teach business ed at SW Missouri State.
• Karl Rove - avoided the draft, did not serve.
• Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert – avoided the draft, did not serve.
• Majority Leader Dick Armey- avoided the draft, did not serve.
• Majority Whip Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve. "So many minority youths had volunteered ... that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself."
• Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott - avoided the draft, did not serve.
• Don Nickles, Senate Minority Whip - avoided the draft, did not serve.
• Former Speaker Newt Gingrich - avoided the draft, did not serve.
• Senator Phil Gramm - avoided the draft, did not serve, four (?) student deferments.
• Senator Richard Shelby, avoided the draft, did not serve.
• Former Representative "B-1" Bob Dornan – avoided Korean War combat duty by enrolling in college acting classes.
• Representative Saxby Chambliss, Georgia – did not serve, had a "bad knee."
• Representative JC Watts - did not serve.
• Former Representative Jack Kemp, did not serve(was fit enough for pro football, but failed" the physical?).
• Dan Quayle, avoided Vietnam service, got a slot in the journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard when the unit was at 150% capacity. (Unlike GW, at least he showed up for his duty.)
• Eliot Abrams, did not serve.
• Vin Weber, did not serve.
• Richard Perle, did not serve.
• Rudy Giuliani, did not serve.
• Former Michigan Governor John Engler, did not serve.

Pundits and Preachers

• George Will, did not serve
• Chris Matthews, did not serve.
• Bill O'Reilly, did not serve.
• Paul Gigot, did not serve.
• Bill Bennett, Did not serve.
• Pat Buchanan, did not serve.
• Rush Limbaugh, did not serve.
• Pat Robertson - did not serve, apparently used his daddy's connections to get off the ship in Tokyo while his buddies went on to Korea.

• Bill Kristol, did not serve.