--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > You *do* know Kerry wasn't referring to the troops > > per se, don't you? He was referring to Bush having > > gotten us--the country--stuck in Iraq because he > > failed to take advantage of his education and never > > learned how to think analytically or to be curious > > enough to inform himself. > > > > That's not how I took the comment. When I read it, I thought: > that's weird; Kerry is having a flashback to the '60s when there was > a draft and if one didn't stay in school (and get what I think they > called back then an academic deferment) one faced getting drafted. > > So it didn't make sense when I read it, but that's how I interpreted > it. Especially in light of other comments that I have read about > the Iraq war coming from other politicians that were a flashback to > the Vietnam era. For example I think it was Charles Rangel (but I'm > not 100% sure) who said that the Iraq war was discriminative because > there was, like Vietnam, a disproportionately high number of > minorities who served (which may be true for Iraq but wasn't for > Vietnam, despite the myth that was built up that that was the case). >
I don't know about actual percentages, but I know a man, a Vietnam vet, who says that he was in a group of several hundred juvenile offenders who were bussed to a baseball stadium and lined up and told: enlist or go to jail. They were all black. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
