Tancredo Deferred from Vietnam for "Mental Health Reasons"

[Oreo]

I posted this in the Colorado forum but wanted to know if anybody else knows more about Tom Tancredo's Vietnam deferment due to "Mental Health Reasons"?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=142x5304

Tom Tancredo (R-CO) (12/20/45) - Did not serve. According to Political State Report, Tancredo "avoided service in Vietnam by obtaining a medical deferment for mental health reasons." This and this link, from critics of Tancredo's views on immigration, are harsher in their descriptions.

http://www.winterforcongress.com/

[long_green]

1. Where does Tancredo rank among Worst Congressmen?

There are 435, right? He's got to be Top Ten.
I don't care how someone got out of Vietnam provided they don't turn into Captain America later. What is the Chickenhawk Census in both houses of Congress?

[underpants]

4. Lynn Westmoreland has to be up there

http://devitoblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/dumbest-congressman.html

Duncan Hunter is also known as the dumbest member of Congress.

[Hippo_Tron]

9. I think that Lynn Westmoreland is dumber than Duncan Hunter

Mr. "I actually could name 7 of the 10 commandments".

[Virginia Dare]

2. His mental health issue...

no doubt is having a phobia about people shooting at him. What a miserable cretin he is.

[The Magistrate]

3. That Is Very Common Phobia, Ma'am

Just about everyone suffers from it, though a number were in those days sent to sergeants for its cure....

[Monkeyman]

5. Tancredo has the third worse voting record on veterans issues

2. Jdennis Hastert
1. Chairman of Veterans Affairs Committee Steve Buyer

[acmejack]

6. These guys just infuriate me!

To listen to them rant & rave you would think they would have been knocking down the doors to get into uniform to get over there and protect their glorious flag and the American way of life. I am amazed they can stand up there with a straight face and talk the shit they do. If nothing else, it disproves the existence of a vengeful God, for he/she would have struck their sorry asses dead, dead, dead, for this kind of colossal hypocrisy!

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Shouldn't the gutting of Veteran's benefits be a MAJOR Dem talking point?

Whenever the Repugs try to claim a monopoly on patriotism, we need to ask "What has your party done for the patriots who served our country?"

[Monkeyman]

8. Fire For Effect

You got an issue I am pushing

[Hippo_Tron]

10. Republicans unfortunately have spin

They just lie and say that they haven't really cut Veteran's benefits.