One basic distinction between bush and others who did not go to Vietnam is that while he avoided the draft by gaining access to the Champagne Guard, or whatever it was called, he supported that war. He didn't even have the integrity to be honest about himself. And, he couldn't even fulfill that obligation. Cheney also dodged the draft, using deferments, and remember, he had "better things to do." Yet, he too, also supported that quagmire. Again, integrity be damned.
On the other hand, Clinton, who people also rail about avoiding the draft, did so without ever giving others some false pretense. He was a Rhodes Scholar. He was a smart man. He used whatever he could to stay out of Vietnam. But, he never maintained that he concurrently supported that fiasco, the way our present day bozos did. He had, at least, that level of integrity. Of course, those who hated his politics used whatever they could to attempt to bring him down. All they came up with, and failed, was that he lied about a blow job. And yes, he likely was a snake in the marital sense. But, that was between him and Hillary.
Dubya still lies like a rug about his past. He lies like a rug about his present. He lies like a rug to make people believe he's some kind of saint coming to save the Mideast day. I really believe that he could care less about the mideast. He attempted to use war to bolster his ratings. He used war to solidify an oil reserve for the US. And, he used intellegence that was good, in a way that misrepresented that intelligence to dupe Americans into believing that the intelligence was "faulty". There was nothing faulty about that intelligence. In fact, they were firing anyone on staff who didn't wrap the intelligence around the neocon policy. Americans are finally seeing the light. Only the JUers and a other die-hard conservatives hang their collective hats on his foibles, follies and felonies. His numbers are indeed plummeting, whether you like it or not.
Bush is a war president, all right. But, he's going to go down in history as starting the war for selfish gains. In fact, his "attempts" to make the world safer from terrorists is a dismal failure. He created an Iraqi training ground of terrorists, more so than Afghanistan ever was. He made the world a more dangerous place with his lies, and history will never forget what a traitorous scumbag he and his cronies really are. Ya'll better get used to that idea. That is the way it will go down, like it or not.
