Draft questions cloud Giuliani’s chances (Another Chickenhawk)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.examiner.com/a-591689~Draft_questions_cloud_Giuliani_s_chances.html

If this presidential campaign is anything like the last, John McCain’s Vietnam service will inevitably be contrasted with GOP rival Rudy Giuliani’s avoidance of a war that he opposed.

“Any suggestion that he was dodging the draft is totally, factually inaccurate,” said a senior Giuliani campaign adviser who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic. “He opposed the war on tactical and strategic grounds.”

But as far back as 1993, when he successfully ran for mayor of New York, Giuliani has been dogged by accusations that he pulled strings to avoid the draft. By contrast, McCain has long been feted as a bona fide war hero for his harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison.

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Giuliani, who once said of the Vietnam war, “I disagreed with it,” obtained an occupational deferment in 1969, when he was a law clerk. Although critics say such deferments were rare, the Giuliani campaign disagrees.

“He wanted an occupational deferment, which was very common at the time, because he wanted to be a lawyer,” the Giuliani adviser said.

[AX10]

1. The media will white wash this one too.

[Vickers]

2. An "occupational deferment" because "he wanted to be a lawyer" ???

Anybody that votes for that coward is pathetic.

[FrenchieCat]

3. OMG!

another chickenhawk!

Big on others fighting.....not so much when it was his turn! :eyes:

[Skink]

4. Atleast now we know what his other priorities were.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Funny, I don't remember anything about "occupational deferments"

from those days - and I would have definitely been aware if they were common.

In WWII occupaional deferments were granted to people in critical industries that supported the war effort. How would being a law clerk even remotely approach that definition?

[Mz Pip]

7. My husband had one

He worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the first Mars shots. He and his employer had to really jump through hoops to get it though - letters from JPL, legal hassles but in the end it was granted.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[KurtNYC]

6. If Vietnam was about ferrets or elephant poop Rudy would have gone

Those are the things he likes fighting.

[Supersedeas]

8. where's the photo op, where's the photo op??