I just laugh at how these Elitist Wilsonian types love to invade countries to spread Democracy, yet have little skin in the game. The latest hypocrite is Progressive Republican Mitt Romney. Romney never served and neither has any of his kids. Clearly military service is beneath him since his time is better served destroying companies and sending jobs overseas.
Romney who claims to be a hawk, chickened out went his turn came up. The Mormon Church got raft a deferment for Prince Mitt during the Vietnam war. Instead off putting his money with his mouth is, he went to France to do missionary work. Does anyone thing Romney actually did missionary work in France? He probably was partying with French women, while other Americans were dying for their nation in the jungles of S0utheast Asia.
As the Vietnam War raged in the 1960s, Mitt Romney received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon “minister of religion” for the duration of his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a half years.
Before and after his missionary deferment, Romney also received nearly three years of deferments for his academic studies. When his deferments ended and he became eligible for military service in 1970, he drew a high number in the annual lottery that determined which young men were drafted. His high number ensured he was not drafted into the military.
[…]
By serving as a missionary and being given the deferment, Romney ensured that he would not be drafted from July 1966 until February 1969. Romney’s draft record from the time describes him as “minister of religion or divinity student.” Mayo said the church would have considered Romney a minister.
[….]
At the same time, Romney said, he was influenced by the statement of his father, then-Michigan Governor George W. Romney, who said in 1967 that he had been “brainwashed” by US officials about Vietnam. “When my dad said that he had been wrong about Vietnam and that it was a mistake and they had been brainwashed and so forth, I certainly trusted him and believed him,” Romney said.
Read the rest: Mormon church obtained Vietnam draft deferrals for Romney, other missionaries
If Mitt Romney avoided service because he was against the Vietnam War, fine. However, he wants a Hawkish foreign policy that will involve the lives of many young Americans. How about any of his kids joining up for service? Oops, they are too good for that as well.
A woman at an Ask Mitt Anything forum earlier today in Iowa raised the question again, asking whether any of Mr. Romney’s five sons are serving in the military, adding pointedly, “If none of them are, how do they plan to support this war on terrorism by enlisting in our U.S. military?”
Although his campaign said his remarks were taken out of context, Mr. Romney’s response is drawing criticism, because he said, in part, “one of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping to get me elected.”
Mr. Romney expressed appreciation for the country’s “volunteer army” and said “that’s the way we’re going to keep it. He explained his sons had made different career choices in life and had not chosen to serve in the military but he mentioned a niece whose husband he said had just been called up by the National Guard.
So helping with a campaign is the same as military service? That’s insulting to people like my cousin and others who served and are mentally scared form this current war. This would not be a big dea, if he didn’t advocate wars without end nor have a Wilsonian Internationalist Interventionist agenda.
Mitt Romney is a chicken hawk and like Bill Clinton would be a Coward in Chief. This man is not fit to be President and Conservatives should focus on destroying Romney in the primaries. Mitt Romney is a Progressive and would damage the Conservative brand.
