[Vision2020] How Mitt Romney Dodged the Draft . . .

[Donovan Arnold]

I don't think we should judge people based on their military status. Honestly, I would have tried to get out of fighting in Vietnam War too, as I think the slaughter or innocent people over there was unjustifiable, especially towards the end of the war when we knew it was a lost and unworthy cause. "We had to destroy the village in order to save it!", should have been a clue it was time to pack up and go home. 
 
People that served during that time were patriotic because they were putting their life at risk, and those that resisted fighting overseas were patriotic because they knew it was war that hurt the nations involved and resolved nothing. In their minds, and I think rightfully so, saw carpeting bombing little girls with napalm in remote villages as unjustifiable. 
 
Donovan J. Arnold

From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Monday, September 3, 2012 2:20 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] How Mitt Romney Dodged the Draft . . .

"Demonstrating in favor of the Vietnam War at Stanford University, Willard "Mitt" Romney, however, would face uncertain odds in a Selective Service College Qualification Test. Most college men could not make the cut to postpone being drafted. Romney left Stanford after one year, and pursued his Mormon religion's mandatory ministry for males: two years in France in his case. When the Selective Service System (the draft) noticed so many young Mormon men taking S2 deferments for ministry, they restricted it to one Mormon minister per district. Mitt's father, Gov. George Romney, was influential in the Mormon church. The chosen one in the district was Mitt."

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http://archive.org/details/HowMittRomneyDodgedTheDraft

With Air Force veteran H. Bruce Franklin who taught at Stanford at the time. He teaches a course on the Vietnam War. Franklin's article on Romney and the draft appears in CounterPunch . . .

http://CounterPunch.org

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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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