Did Cheney get his wife pregnant to avoid the draft? [View All]

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There seems to be no end to chickenhawkitis among Repugs.


Let us always remember Vice President Dick Cheney's explanation for why he did not serve in Vietnam, as told to George C. Wilson of the "Washington Post" in 1989:

I had other priorities in the '60s than military service.


Maybe the 58,000 American servicemen who died in Vietnam had other priorities too Mr. Cheney




This is from ex- Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jesse Brown:

Cheney received four 2-S draft deferments -- granted to students -- from 1963 through 1965 while he was a student at the University of Wyoming. He married Lynne in 1964, and was thus banned from the draft.
But in October 1965, the Selective Service announced that married men without children could then be drafted. Exactly nine months and two days later -- on July 28, 1966 -- his first child was born. Cheney hadn't waited until her birth before he sought a 3-A deferment classification -- given to those with dependents. He did so when Lynne was only 10 weeks pregnant.
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/08/01/draft/