Cheney's passion kept him out of Viet Nam.........

[jmcon007]

Everyone is familiar with Dick Cheney's comment to George C. Wilson of the Washington Post in 1989 concerning the reason he missed combat in Viet Nam: "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service." I have never been aware of the "fun facts" below and am assuming many of my DUer friends haven't either.
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All info below taken from an article in Slate by Timothy Noah (http://slate.msn.com/id/2097365/) and posted March 18, 2004 entitled "Elizabeth Cheney, Deferment Baby
How Dick Cheney dodged the Vietnam draft."
By Timothy Noah
Posted Thursday, March 18, 2004, at 2:09 PM PT
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"....Cheney's eldest daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, likely owes her very existence to her father's avoidance of the Vietnam draft.

"The Washington Post's Phil McCombs made the intimate calculations in a profile published in April 1991, when Cheney was defense secretary. The timeline:

Aug. 29, 1964: Dick and Lynne Cheney marry.

May 19, 1965: The Selective Service classifies Dick Cheney 1-A, "available immediately for military service."

July 28, 1965: President Lyndon Johnson says draft calls will be doubled.

Oct. 26, 1965: The Selective Service declares that married men without children, who were previously exempted from the draft, will now be called up. Married men with children remain exempt.

Jan. 19, 1966: The Selective Service reclassifies Dick Cheney 3-A, "deferred from military service because service would cause hardship upon his family," because his wife is pregnant with their first child.

July 28, 1966: Elizabeth Cheney is born.

Jan. 30, 1967: Dick Cheney turns 26 and therefore becomes ineligible for the draft.

Dedicated students of obstetrics will observe that Elizabeth Cheney's birth date falls precisely nine months and two days after the Selective Service publicly revoked its policy of not drafting childless husbands. This would seem to indicate that the Cheneys, though doubtless planning to have children sometime, were seized with an untamable passion the moment Dick Cheney became vulnerable to the Vietnam draft. And acted on it. Carpe diem!

Who says government policy can't affect human behavior?

[In Truth We Trust]

1. kick for truth-Nail `em

[AndyTiedye]

2. That is Interesting Timing

:kick:

[Misskittycat]

3. Horrors: I just learned that Cheney and I share a birthday. n/t

[roguevalley]

4. he did it on purpose, the coward.

[POAS]

8. Was this MIHOP or LIHOP?

[WLKjr]

10. Are those dachshunds?

in your sig line?

[Gemini Cat]

5. What a nasty picture

The Cheneys "were seized with an untamable passion."
Must scrub brain!

You're right about this however, I know of several people born during this time period and their fathers were exempted from the draft.

[jmcon007]

6. I agree about the content. My brain is now scarred, too.

[madeline_con]

7. eeewww!

Dickless doin the nasty! (shudder)

[ebayfool]

9. Geez ... TY for the mental picture of Cheneys bumpin' nasties!

I still say they secretly adopted - no way those 2 could have an ounce of human passion or emotion between them!

[Tesla]

11. Chickenhawk!!!!

[Vickers]

12. He showed a certain amount of bravery by boinking Lynne

:spank:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

15. Should he be awarded the Purple Part?

:hide:

[Q]

13. Watch this video on Cheney:

THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF DICK CHENEY

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/video.html

[Tesla]

14. Don't make me... I've been good!!!

J/K!!

I can't seem to sit thru more than a few seconds of his face!

[landoisnum1]

16. Is there anyone else in the government with this similar story?

[Imagevision]

17. It's a given, you sacrfice tour kids lives while they skate while wearing

their flag-pins on their lapels.

Bush is flushing this country down the toilet as Cheney smiles in the background.

[ComerPerro]

18. Republican family vaules: Where children are a means to an end