George Bush on his options in 1969

[BurtWorm]

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8388

"I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in order to get a deferment," Bush told the Dallas Morning News in 1990. "Nor was I willing to go to Canada. So I chose to better myself by learning how to fly airplanes."

[soothsayer]

1. Powell on people like shrub

"I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed... managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units... Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegiance to their country."

- Colin Powell's autobiography,
My American Journey, p. 148