My Father in Law is a Vietnam vet. He served as an Army intel officer right out of ROTC circa 1967, and saw combat. He’s also a lifelong Republican who has chosen to live in Maryland. go figure. He’s also completely intolerant of draft dodgers. It’s the reason he hated Clinton.

What boggles my mind is how he’s completely resentful of John Kerry’s military service. I continuously get e-mails from him about unconfirmable nit picky problems with Kerry’s war record.

So I ask him what about Dubya going into the National Guard, and all the associated problems with potential AWOL behaviour, and leaving early etc. His response is that “noone can prove it, so what’s the big deal.” When I ask him how he feels about Cheney who avoided going to Vietnam for various nebulous reasons, he doesn’t have a problem with Uncle Dick avoiding the draft, or service.

Gotta love hypocrisy. It’s OK for Dubya or Uncle Dick to avoid service entirely, but God forbig Kerry actually wears medals he earned.

So some of Dubya’s Nat Guard records have been lost? How convenient. Lost in ‘96 and ‘97? Sure. Right. Excuse me for being skeptical.

What we have here is a rich kid whose powerful Daddy got him out of an obligation to go to War by defending the skies over Texas from Mexican infiltration. And Dubya, for whatever reason, couldn’t even meet that obligation. War time President? Sure thing. George Sr. lied about his age so he COULD serve in WWII. That’s character. Being too drunk, or whatever, to show up to fly a jet over Texas? That’s pathetic.