I love Cheney's military history of deferments - LOL - he takes on Kerry?

Cheney's Five Draft Deferments During the Vietnam Era Emerge as a Campaign Issue


"On Oct. 6, 1965, the Selective Service lifted its ban against drafting married men who had no children. Nine months and two days later, Mr. Cheney's first daughter, Elizabeth, was born."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/politics/campaign/01CHEN.html

He applied for and recieved 5 student deferments (After dropping out of college to work, he return to college at age 22 to get his first deferment!), a number described as "incredible" by professor David Curry of the University of Missouri in St. Louis. Curry has written extensively about the draft, including a 1985 book, "Sunshine Patriots: Punishment and the Vietnam Offender." The Times quotes Mr. Curry as observing: "That's a lot of times for the draft board to say O.K."

Three weeks and a day after the Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed (giving President Johnson unlimited military force in Vietnam), Cheney married Lynn Cheney.

I rather like Cheney claiming to be a father so as to get a hardship deferment (3-A) 10 weeks after Johnson says to start drafting marrieds without children - claiming that he has a child based on a wife who thinks she may be 10 weeks pregnant.

in their exteme arrogance, they REALLY, honestly believe they can get away with this.

They cannot.

We here at DU know Cheney got 5 deferments, but how many others know about this?

Kerry will mention it a time or two, and if he picks Clark as his VP, it will be mentioned a few thousand times.