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2005-11-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve 2005-11-03 10:19|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Democratic Sen. John Kerry, the party's 2004 nominee, volunteered for the Navy and served two tours of duty in Vietnam.

OMFG.

Did I read that right? Did the AP, in the course of a story critical of TWO people for joining the Army Reserve, gloss over another person joining the Naval Reserve, describing it as "volunteering"?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-03 10:53|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-03 10:53|| Front Page Top

#2 BIG FREAKIN' DEAL!!! This isn't even a talking point.

Posted by ARMYGUY 2005-11-03 10:54|| 2005-11-03 10:54|| Front Page Top

#3 And, BTW -- we still don't have all the details of Kerry's service record. Yet the press still plays games like this.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-03 10:54|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-03 10:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Have CNN's reporter in Baghdad leave the bar at the Palestine and ask some Guard and Reserve guys if they think they're in the real army, which is kinda the inference here, yes?

Posted by tu3031 2005-11-03 10:55|| 2005-11-03 10:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito joined the Army Reserve while he was a college student because his lottery number had made it likely he would be drafted for the Vietnam War, college roommates said Wednesday.

So phuquing what?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-11-03 10:56|| 2005-11-03 10:56|| Front Page Top

#6 The Leftist-Elites, seeing their cabal in the courts about to end, is resorting to grasping at straws. God forbid I would ever enter public service. My birthday number was drawn 340, and they would probably condemn my mother for doing everying thing in her power to delay my birth, as I was born at 1:00 AM, and the previous day's number was 75. They would say she had a preminition of the situation and did something "unfair" and tried to protect me.

Posted by BigEd 2005-11-03 11:02|| 2005-11-03 11:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Cracks like tu3031's piss me off. Not two weeks ago I was blown off of this very barstool. I've seen the face of war. It looks like broken bottles of Chivas and Grey Goose. War is hell. I know.
Screw it Achmed. Keep bringing me straight shots.

Posted by Grizzled War Correspondent 2005-11-03 11:16|| 2005-11-03 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 MSM lies and filth. Time to kill some of them.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-11-03 11:25|| 2005-11-03 11:25|| Front Page Top

#9 He served honorably from 1972 to 1980? The draft ended (not a good day in my opinion) in 1973. I believe the commitment at that time was only for 6 years. You do the math. Sounds like he is a partiot...something the congress certainly won't understand.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-03 11:43|| 2005-11-03 11:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Time to kill some of them.

No. Violence is not the answer.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-03 12:27|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-03 12:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Violence is always a good answer. Just ask Carthage ;)

Posted by mmurray821 2005-11-03 12:39|| 2005-11-03 12:39|| Front Page Top

#12 We have laws to deal with these people. Rome didn't have legal authority over Carthage.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-03 12:46|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-03 12:46|| Front Page Top

#13 If this is the best they can do, it's over, Alito gets confirmed with a comfortable margin.

Posted by Steve White 2005-11-03 13:33|| 2005-11-03 13:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito joined the Army Reserve while he was a college student because his lottery number had made it likely he would be drafted for the Vietnam War, college roommates said Wednesday.

Hell, my draft number was 97, but the Army offered me a college scholarship and a commission, so I took it. You had to be able to do the math to get the damn thing, so it wasn't too much of a leap to take the better deal. I got a BA on it, a MA on the GI Bill, and the taxpayers got 20 years of my life. I've been enjoying 11 years of retirement so far. Then again I haven't been nominated for the court either. I will not run if nominated and will not serve if elected. Good enough for o'Bill [Sherman] its good enough for me :)

Posted by Hupeasing Anginert3023 2005-11-03 14:39|| 2005-11-03 14:39|| Front Page Top

#15 I guess I'm a draft evader, too. I got my draft notice in July, 1965, ordering me to New Orleans for an induction physical. My drill sergeant told me I could ignore it...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-11-03 15:26|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-11-03 15:26|| Front Page Top

#16 Slick Willy Clinton

Posted by wxjames 2005-11-03 17:53|| 2005-11-03 17:53|| Front Page Top

#17 Article: Alito was part of the Army's ROTC program during his years at Princeton -- 1968 to 1972 -- a period when the war in Southeast Asia escalated and more American men were drafted.

This is a typical AP lie. The war escalated until 1968. The Tet Offensive in 1968 crushed the Vietcong. The peak year for American casualties was 1968. It fell every year after that. It may have escalated for the Vietnamese Communists, as a Republican President took the gloves off. But American casualties are presumably the yardstick AP uses to define escalation. And by that standard, AP is lying, as usual.

Posted by Elmenter Snineque1852 2005-11-03 22:00|| 2005-11-03 22:00|| Front Page Top

#18 damn - I turned 18 after the draft and before registration ('78) - guess I better never run for anything - oh, I could move to Mass., I guess

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-11-03 23:02|| 2005-11-03 23:02|| Front Page Top

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