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   From: FranzKafka@Oceania.WhiteHouse.GOV   
      
   "David Hartung"  wrote in inimitable style:   
      
   >   
   > "Dickmcb"  wrote in message   
   > news:qqidnTtew6s8N7LdRVn-gg@comcast.com...   
   >>   
   >> "F.U."  wrote in message   
   >> news:xvNXb.173620$fH2.158102@twister.tampabay.rr.com...   
   >> >    What's wrong with the reserve? Its a necessity and a patriotic   
   >> endeavor.   
   >> > Bottom line is Bush served his country honorably while hundreds of   
   >> thousands   
   >> > ran to places like England or Russia.   
   >>                                *******************************   
   >>    Hundreds of thousands ran to Russia? Boy, that "fact" never made   
   >>    the   
   >> news. Care to name a few of those "hundreds of thousands" ? You can   
   >> skip Bill Clinton who visited Russia on a two week students tour then   
   >> went back to England where he was a student at Oxford.   
   >   
   > During a time when the US and Russia were not getting along.   
   > This is   
   > at least as suspicious as Gorge Bush being admitted to the ANG, don't   
   > you think?   
      
   Draft age American men were not running in droves to the Soviet Union,   
   which was not welcoming Americans with open arms anyway.   
      
   If anyone evading the draft left the U.S., it was generally up north   
   across the Canadian border.  Most knew that with the unpopularity of the   
   war, an amnesty would be declared anyway, and that the U.S. did not have   
   the resources to jail thousands of men.  More than enough were using   
   college deferments and other ways of avoiding induction.   
      
      
      
      
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   The world is too dangerous to live in---not because of the people   
   who do evil, but because of the people who sit and let it happen."   
      
   --- attributed to Albert Einstein   
      
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