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Originally Posted by Hudson
To accuse Bush of avoiding Nam by joining the NG is an attack on the hundreds of thousands national guard service men and women who did not servie either. It would also attack those service men and woem who served in europe or the Americas on active duty.
As for Obama, some of the criticism have been statements he made. And like any politician, he does have skeletons in his closet that he does not want the public to see. And the same goes with McCain or anyone else who is ruining for public office.
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I don't know how old you are, but back then the National Guard was the connected man's Canada. Of the 55,000 killed in Vietnam, 100 were National Guard.
Bush got into the Guard, and by all accounts was a pretty dedicated Guardsman, serving in the Champagne Squadron, with the son of the Texas Governor, the son of a Texas Senator and several members of the Dallas Cowboys, (what are the odds of that). He had a good deal.
Then the US went to a lottery system, ask any guy whose in his 50's, he'll tell you his number, and Bush's draft number came up 336, suddenly the National Guard wasn't that great a deal, if he had stayed out of the Guard he would be free and clear, but now he still owed the guard all this time (not a very good deal), so he got a bad attitude and stopped going.