Upwards of
40,000 Vietnam draft dodgers fled to Canada between 1965 and
1975. Many stayed in Canada after the
war’s end and some even stayed after President Jimmy Carter pardoned them all
on his first day in office.
If fleeing to the Great
White North wasn’t your cup of tea, you could beat the draft with a college
deferment. Former Vice President Joe
Biden received five student deferments while he was an undergraduate at the
University of Delaware and later as a law student at Syracuse University.
On April 5, 1968, after
undergoing the physical exam required to enter military service, Biden was
classified 1Y meaning he would only be called to service in the event of a
national emergency. Why was Uncle Joe
classified a 1Y? Teenage asthma.
We learned this through
an inquiry made by the
Associated Press
into Biden’s Selective Service records from the Obama campaign in August of
2008. That same month Penguin Random
House published Biden’s memoir Promises to Keep in which he never mentions “his asthma,
recounting an active childhood, work as a lifeguard and football exploits in
high school.”
Uncle Joe is a fibber
in the first degree. He claimed on
several campaign stops in Ohio in 2008 as Obama’s running mate, “I went to the
University of Delaware, and we came out here to play Ohio University.”
The school’s sports
information department told HuffPost that he played briefly
on the freshman team in 1961. However, he never played varsity football
at Delaware and did not play in the 1963 game at Ohio University.
According to a new POLITICO/Morning
Consult poll of registered Democratic voters released Wednesday, more than
half of respondents said it's not important for the party's presidential
nominee to be a veteran.
"Our polling
suggests 2020 contenders who tout military credentials won’t necessarily have
an advantage when Democrats cast their votes at the ballot box,” said Tyler
Sinclair, Morning Consult’s vice president. “Notably, 36 percent of Democratic voters
said it was important for their party’s nominee to be a military veteran. This
compares to 69 percent who prioritize political experience.”
Pete Buttigieg accused
President Trump of using his "privileged status to fake a disability"
to dodge the draft during the Vietnam War.
During the presidential
campaign in July 2015, the Trump campaign said Mr. Trump had a "medical
deferment for bone spurs on both heels of his feet." The statement also
said that Mr. Trump entered the military draft lottery and had received number
356 out of 365.
Before attending
commemoration ceremonies in England and Colleville-sur-Mer, site of the
Normandy American Cemetery, to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion
by Allied Forces, President Trump was interviewed by ITV’s Piers Morgan for Good
Morning Britain whether he wished he could have served in the Vietnam
War.
The President said, "I
would not have minded that at all. I would've been honored, but I think I make
up for it right now. I think I'm making
up for it rapidly because we're rebuilding our military at a level that's never
been seen before."
If Democrats get all
high and mighty about military service, they should be reminded that over the
course of John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, he was forced to admit
significant details of his service in Vietnam weren't true—like his claim
that he spent Christmas of 1968 in Cambodia where U.S. troops
were not supposed to be and "I have that memory which is seared— seared—in
me."
At one point, ABC’s Nightline
sent a camera crew to Vietnam to find witnesses to back Kerry's version of
events. The network was actually offering up witnesses in a Communist
dictatorship—one that honored Kerry's antiwar actions in its national
museums—and saying they were as credible as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
that served in the Vietnam war with Kerry.
Kerry was a medal-grabbing
phony. He used his notoriety as a veteran turned anti-war activist to jump
start his political career. He was the only known “Swift Boater” to
receive the Purple Heart for a self-inflicted wound.
Who can forget the Labor
Day 1970 photograph showing traitor Jane Fonda at an antiwar rally in Valley
Forge, PA with Kerry leading a group called Vietnam Veterans Against The War?
President Trump NEVER
gave aid and comfort to the enemy as John Kerry did. When he testified in 1971 before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, he cited accusations that American soldiers
routinely committed atrocities without presenting a single shred of
evidence.
UPDATE: Welcome readers of Bad Blue Uncensored
News. We wish to thank Doug Ross,
proprietor of Bad Blue, for linking to this post. Enjoy your weekend everybody!
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