Mitt Romney, Chickenhawk & would-be president of the 0.001%

[Bo-4]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis...4/mitt-romney-wouldbe-president-0-001-percent

Yep, here's 19-year-old Willard Mittens rallying in support of the expansion of the Vietnam war and the military draft. The current Republican frontrunner would later win a draft deferment on the grounds that he was a Mormon missionary. Like George W Bush and Dick Cheney, Romney is a rich man who loves war as long as someone else is doing the fighting.

 

[JuliefromOhio]

that missionary waiver sure came in handy for Willard.

 

[Bo-4]

that missionary waiver sure came in handy for Willard.

Guys who seek deferments while rallying for expansion of war and the draft are not fit to be Commander in Chief.

 

[TomFitz]

Guys who seek deferments while rallying for expansion of war and the draft are not fit to be Commander in Chief.

Well, one of them was President, another was Secretary of Defense, still another was Vice President, and Captain Kangaroo was UN Ambassador.

 

[BRU]

wow I haven't heard "chicken hawk" in a long time......lol

 

[BRU]

Guys who seek deferments while rallying for expansion of war and the draft are not fit to be Commander in Chief.

I doubt anyone is going to hold it against him...it was 46 years ago.

 

[BRU]

that missionary waiver sure came in handy for Willard.

Waivers came in handy for a lot of people. Clinton included....


Something the article above doesn't mention

"He walked up to me and said that he had some experience with the press, and that he would handle the press for me if I wanted him to," Coulter recalled. "I said fine, because I was busy running the demonstration."

Romney spoke to reporters and photographers, and wound up with his and Coulter's names in an Associated Press photo caption that circulated with the picture above, in which Romney holds a sign at the far right.

"He just saw the demonstration, was sympathetic to it obviously, and came up," Coulter said. He added that Romney hadn't made the sign he's carrying in the photograph.

Romney hadn't organized the protest, and wasn't part of Coulter's later efforts to beat back a growing student anti-war movement.

"I don’t recall ever seeing him again," Coulter said of Romney, who spent just a year at Stanford and enrolled after his mission in France at Brigham Young University.

Romney's moment at a '60s protest was reported in some newspapers the next day with a mention that the son of Michigan Governor George Romney --who would later turn against the Vietnam War-- had been spotted at the event.

 

[Lukey]

The President of Stanford University was waging a war against Vietnam?

 

[BRU]

Romney wasn't part of that movement, he just happened to walk up on it and was handed a sign. He missed most of the anti-war movement while in France. He received a student deferment, like many, and when those ran out his number was never called in the 69 draft. This is just another recycled, regurgitated, slime attack.

 

[JuliefromOhio]

• Before joining college, Romney had received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon 'minister of religion' for the duration of his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a half years. At the time, there was an agreement of sorts between the church and the Selective Service allowing exemptions from the draft for missionaries. Before and after his missionary deferment, Romney also received nearly three years of deferments for his academic studies.

• In April 1965, Romney registered with the Selective Service but was not considered readily available for military service until December 1970. When he became eligible for military service in 1970, he drew a high number in the annual draft lottery and at that time no one drawing higher than 195 was drafted.

 

[BRU]

and?

 

[JuliefromOhio]

Romney wasn't part of that movement, he just happened to walk up on it and was handed a sign. He missed most of the anti-war movement while in France. He received a student deferment, like many, and when those ran out his number was never called in the 69 draft. This is just another recycled, regurgitated, slime attack.

they don't call Romney "both ways Mitt" for nothing.

here, Romney could say he was anti-war......for securing all those deferments, then say he was for the Nam war with this handy photo.

 

[Number_58]

It's funny that none of these complaining about Romney's deferment seemed to mind when this list ran for higher office...

Bill Bradley
Howard Dean
Bill Clinton
Dennis Kucinich
Joe Lieberman
Al Gore

It's public record that these people qualified for deferment as well.

 

[Bo-4]

Well, one of them was President, another was Secretary of Defense, still another was Vice President, and Captain Kangaroo was UN Ambassador.

Yeah, that was downright sad wasn't it? No worries though, it only cost our country a few trillion bucks.

 

[Bo-4]

Yeah, well maybe you could link me to their support of expansion of war and draft?

I'll wait 58..

 

[NCmusicman]

maybe... : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=CpM_Pv430Qg&NR=1

 

[Number_58]

I don't know if they did or not...further, I'm not defending Romney's actions either...just find it rather humorous.

 

[Number_58]

And...I find it extremely hypocritical of any President that sought any way possible to keep from going into combat to send other people's children into the exact same situation they did everything they could to avoid.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I'm no Romney fan but "chickenhawk" ain't gonna cut it this time around. Not that it was ever a very effective approach in the past.....

 

[Bo-4]

And...I find it extremely hypocritical of any President that sought any way possible to keep from going into combat to send other people's children into the exact same situation they did everything they could to avoid.

Well, Obama isn't one of those since it was all volunteer when he turned 18. But you might want to look at Little George's cushy air guard gig courtesy of Poppy. ;-)