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From Wikipedia:
"During the 1969 Vietnam War draft lottery, Bolton drew number 185. (Draft numbers corresponded to birth dates.) As a result of the Johnson and Nixon administrations' decisions to rely largely on the draft rather than on the reserve forces, joining a Guard or Reserve unit became a way to avoid service in the Vietnam War. Bolton enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard in 1970 rather than wait to find out if his draft number would be called. (The highest number called to military service was 195.) After serving in the National Guard for four years, he served in the United States Army Reserve until the end of his enlistment two years later. He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost." In an interview, Bolton discussed his comment in the reunion book, explaining that he decided to avoid service in Vietnam because "by the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that opponents of the Vietnam War had made it certain we could not prevail, and that I had no great interest in going there to have Teddy Kennedy give it back to the people I might die to take it away from.""
People, this coward is taking us to war with Iran or anyone else he wants to take out. Will the Draft return?
Skittles
(153,147 posts)I have a HUGE problem with warmongering chicken hawk fucksticks.
brush
(53,764 posts)but are all for it for others.
3catwoman3
(23,971 posts)Can you kick Bolton's ass, please?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)because of the need to start a conflict, battle, war for profit.
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)isn't that special both him and trump are draft dodgers, they probably bond over that.