I am confused. can you help?

Question

I voluntary served in the Army so i dont understand why some libs say that republicans should join the army.I also dont understand why they day Bush dodged the draft when he voluntered. is voluntering for military service considered draft dodging? if it is does that mean the libs weant to bring the draft back?

Answer 1

I like that blue hair.Liberals like me are too limp wristed to ever think about shooting a mean gun, so we hide behind our keyboards and shoot from there.A lot of shooting I do.In more ways than one hehe :-)

Answer 2

I am as confused as you are. What are you asking? If you are asking if President Bush was a draft dodger, he was not, but he got out of serving his time in the Reserves. Former President Clinton, did worse, he left the country to "study" in the UK and the joined demonstrations against the Vietnam War in England. He was a draft dodger. Since the draft no longer exist and we have an all volunteer military force, volunteering for military service now and in the past could never be considered draft dodging. Anyone who says that insults all Soldiers. You served in the Army and did your service and should be proud of that fact, you did more then most people, and should be honored for that. Give yourself some credit. There is talk about bringing the draft back, this country has a shortage of Volunteers, it is not just liberal or conservative talk.

Answer 3

Rangel wants to bring back the draft, as did my very liberal U.S. Navy veteran father. The reasoning is that until the war cuts into the upper and upper middle classes, the country will tolerate the deaths of these soldiers who fight in the interest of the upper class.

Buhs dodged the draft by joining the Guard. That was the dodge, yes. If he was drafted, off to war he would go. By joining the Guard, he dodged the draft. That is not the worst part, although it should preclude him from sending other boys to war, as he and cheney supported Vietnam but had 'other priorities' than fighting it. The worst part is that after Bush got that cushy escape from Vietnam, he rarely bothered to show up, actually spent some of the time on political campaigns. He did show up for the free dental care, tho.

Most libs would like to end wars of foreign aggression and return to George Washington's vision of our foreign affairs.

Answer 4

Isnt it obvious?

BUSH volunteered and got EXTRA SPECIAL TREATMENT.

Daddy had friends and Daddy got him assigned to a group with clebrities and 7 footbal players.

He might was well have been a draft dodger since he basically went AWOL conveniently right BEFORE mandatory drug tests.

He was ordered to several places and didnt show up. He wasnt punished.

He was assigned to a plane that was already in process of being phased out. A complete waste of the taxpayers dollars to even train him, normally this wouldnt happen. This assignment assured he would see no actual combat.

His test scores were atrocious. It should have been obvious then that the man was utterly incompetant.

Answer 5

Deal with facts. Bush just drafted 35,000 they will be in Iraq soon. Bush is a draft dodger because he chose his own safe place at home at the same time as others were forced into nam by the draft.
Bush had his Dad fix it for him. We lost 58,000 in Nam and Bush and Cheney were not there. You Neocons call Kerry all kinds of names but at least he served his country. I thank Kerry for his service and I thank you for yours.
I admire people like you who enter the Republican war in Iraq. Bush is your leader and you should follow your leader into the fight. BTW, lets watch the results of the military vote from Iraq, I will bet anyone it will be 60-40 against Republicans.

Answer 6

Funny how the libs never questioned the draft dodger Bill Clinton. Libs are hypocrites.

Answer 7

Dividing people into libs and republicans is the same as volunteering to be a pawn on the chessboard of a bunch of wealthy and unscrupulous closet Hitlers.
From my view, someone calling me a republican or lib is a serious insult. I am neither, I agree with neither party, and am not one of their chess pieces. The more of me there are, the less power they have over you. I'm glad you survived the military, and sometimes I regret that I did. But here we are. Think for yourself again.

Answer 8

Many Ls and Ds will do, say or write anything that is anti Bush, R or C. The truth be damned.

Since they believe that anything they feel MUST be right, they have no way to determine whether what they feel is actually good for the world, country or even themselves.

It's too bad. I think that they are more in tune with what is going wrong than most Rs and Cs. However, they haven't a clue on how to actually solve the problems they see.

Answer 9

despite deuceride's and always's shared delusion, bill clinton's name was in the draft lottery and he drew a high lottery number. he agonized over fighting in a war he didn't believe in just to be politically viable and he resisted the war as long as he could with college. when his avoidance path ran out, his name went into the draft lottery. he took his chances, and won. bush got his daddy to get him out of it and then went around saying everyone else should go. like now.

Answer 10

Whatever you guys think or say, drafting is destined to stage a come back as there is a shortage of people in the army who could be sent to the unending war on terror being fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and later may be in other countries like Pakistan. In short, they need more guinea pigs to be sent overseas and get killed!

Answer 11

No Bush dodged the draft and his own father had supported and taken America to war and now Bush jr. is doing the same thing. I understand that one would not want his "own" kid to go to war. But then it is not all right to send other people's kids to war either its hypocritical.