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SHRED

(28,136 posts) Wed Dec 14, 2011, 12:49 PM Dec 2011

So Mitt gets a deferment yet...

...calls Obama a "wimp"?

Mormon church obtained Vietnam draft deferrals for Romney, other missionaries
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | June 24, 2007

As the Vietnam War raged in the 1960s, Mitt Romney received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon "minister of religion" for the duration of his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a half years.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/articles/part1_side_2/

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Romney: Obama’s A Wimp For Not Destroying That Drone
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/romney-obamas-a-wimp-for-not-destroying-that-drone.php?ref=fpb

Romney is seriously messed up individual.

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So Mitt gets a deferment yet... (Original Post) SHRED Dec 2011 OP

another reich-wing draft dodger. why do they have so many leftyohiolib Dec 2011 #1

Almost as damaging as that other famous Republican war hero, Dick Cheney, Old and In the Way Dec 2011 #2

No one in Willards family has served riverwalker Dec 2011 #3

mormons are not supposed to sip wine or any other alcoholic beverage lol nt msongs Dec 2011 #4

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)

1. another reich-wing draft dodger. why do they have so many

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Wed Dec 14, 2011, 12:54 PM

Dec 2011

he is one nasty vulture.

Old and In the Way

(37,540 posts)

2. Almost as damaging as that other famous Republican war hero, Dick Cheney,

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Wed Dec 14, 2011, 12:56 PM

Dec 2011

criticizing Obama's Commander-in-Chief chops.

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)

3. No one in Willards family has served

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Wed Dec 14, 2011, 02:05 PM

Dec 2011

not Willard, or any of his FIVE sons, nor his father. Yet they are all hawks. Willard vigorously supported the Vietnam war, but "served" his deferment sipping wine in sidewalk cafes of Paris.

msongs

(73,754 posts)

4. mormons are not supposed to sip wine or any other alcoholic beverage lol nt

Reply to riverwalker (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 14, 2011, 02:18 PM

Dec 2011

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