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

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...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... [View all] 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