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That was pretty damning evidence against Dubya's spin of his years in the Air National Guard tonight on 60 Minutes. Not that it came as a great surprise to anyone who doesn't have a Kool-Aid mustache, of course.
I have no particular bone to pick with anyone who tried to avoid Vietnam -- even those who pulled strings and used Daddy's influence to do it. I don't have kids, but if the draft were reinstated and I had the influence, I can't promise I wouldn't use it to keep my nieces and nephews safe or even the children of my friends to whom I'm something of an honorary uncle. I wouldn't be proud of having resorted to it, but I can imagine that I might, motivated by my affection for and devotion to the these young people, do everything I could to keep them out of harm's way.
So while the string-pulling is regrettable, it's not the key issue, as far as I'm concerned (except insofar as it reveals Dubya to be the spoiled Richie Rich he truly is, not the common man of the people he plays on TV).
No, the issue of import, to my mind, is the many lies Dubya has told regarding his "service" over the years, and, most heinous of all, the serial smearing of men who did serve honorably -- John McCain, Max Cleland, Al Gore, and John Kerry. It's these acts that are indefensible. It's this behavior that should shame George Dubya and his chickenhawk henchmen (ah, if only they were capable of feeling shame).
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