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"US military during the Vietnam War while Republicans Dick Cheney, Dummkopf Trumpf, Dan Quayle, and Mitt Romney all chickened out with deferments or triple-billeting in a USARNG unit. That was how Dan Quayle avoided combat."

CNN"Clinton's Draft Deferrment
In the autumn of 1969, Clinton entered the draft but received a high number (311) and was never called to serve -- however, Clinton made every effort to avoid the draft prior to entering it.

First, Bill Clinton received education deferments while at Georgetown and Oxford (where he helped organize demonstrations against the war). Second, Clinton attempted to avoid the draft for four years by enrolling, but never joining, the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). Clinton had enrolled in the ROTC hoping to avoid military service for four years, but, wanting a future in politics, had a change of heart and entered the draft.

In December 1969, safe from the draft with his high lottery number, Clinton changed his mind about joining the ROTC program and wrote a letter to the director of the ROTC program thanking him "for saving me from the draft" and regretted misleading him by not revealing the extent of his opposition to the war. The letter was leaked by the Pentagon to ABC news early in the 1992 fueled criticism of candidate Clinton's character.

Later in the 1992 campaign, it became known that Clinton's uncle had attempted to get Bill Clinton a Navy Reserve assignment during the Vietnam war. Clinton said he didn't know anything about it to the press on September 3, 1992 but a day later admitted that a former draft board member had informed him of his uncles' attempt several months before."

Dear Mr. Fantasy, of course

while I'm here anyway:

What About Me? - Quicksilver Messenger Service

www.youtube.com

And I feel the future trembling,
As the word is passed around.
"If you stand up for what you do believe,
Be prepared to be shot down."

full lyrics

genius.com

Subject of Thread: "Mayor of Butler arrested after sniffing a childs panties."

Pedophile Protector's Response : "He got the idea watching FBI agents sniffing Melania's panties."
#9 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

[Verse 1]
I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear

You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

[Bridge]
And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

[Verse 2]
On the radio talk shows and the TV
You hear one thing again and again
How the USA stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend

But who are the ones that we call our friends"
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone

[Chorus]
And there are lives in the balance (There are)
There are people under fire (There are)
There are children at the cannons (There are)
And there is blood on the wire

[Bridge]
There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can't even say the names

[Verse 3]
They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us everything from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars

I wanna know who the men in the shadows are
I wanna hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die

[Chorus]
And there are lives in the balance (There are)
There are people under fire (There are)
There are children at the cannons (There are)
And there is blood on the wire

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