Posted on 08/27/2007 2:48:05 PM PDT by MC Miker G
“showed up for his draft board physical in pants caked with his own urine and feces, winning a deferment.” .............Highly unlikely, but it could be true, so therefore it is. Ask Dan Rather.
Presumably he didn't use Nugent's method.
Why would one participate in a war started by Democrats that made pretend they were fighting communism? That war was lost before even one shot was fired. It was a war made for votes, nothing more nothing less. It was only when Nixon got in and tried to win it that the Treasoncrats became more and more blatant about their true intentions and tried to draw attention away from it by focusing 99.9999% on a hotel break in. A break in that someone like Clinton would call "a days pay". This is exactly what they are doing today with Iraq. They can`t stand that we have a President that actually wants to win, so they are beside themselves blowing up one non-issue after another.
I found several places on the web where they referenced an article from 1990 in the Detroit Free Press but you have to purchase any story that old in order to read what was written.
OK, I had the paper wrong but the explanation I have heard sounds a lot more credible.
well, listen to the leftists whine like the girlie-men they are.
Like many of us, Nugent was far more liberal in his youth. Combine that with the fact that he’s a wild man and you get crusty shorts.
Two of my uncles found more rational ways out. One joined the National Guard and the other got a college deferment. BTW my grandfather wasn’t wealthy or politically connected. He was an electrician raising 5 kids on one income. (Just felt the need to blow that liberal fantasy out of the water)
Even if true, it just means Nugent gave up practicing the vices Roeper still encourages.
he was father of the year in detroit, once, was he not?
But - it is NOT unusual for those who took advantage of circumstances, or managed the circumstances or created the circumstances to avoid the draft —— to later become the MOST vociferous microphone or keyboard warriors...
Ted has ALWAYS struck me as just a little too full of it....
His heart is now in the right place, but his ass wasn’t when it was needed..
For WHATEVER reason....
I thought John Kerry negotiated the end of the Viet Nam war.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/03/25/kerry_spoke_of_meeting_negotiators_on_vietnam/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39744-2004Sep21.html
Ad Says Kerry ‘Secretly’ Met With Enemy; But He Told Congress of It
By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 22, 2004; Page A08
Hannity is a born hero worshiper. Ted Nugent maybe a riot but Hannity carries his infatuation for pop culture figures way beyond anything normal. It goes hand in hand with his major suck up to liberal RINO`s Schwarzenegger and Giuliani.
Ted Nugent is an entertainer.
TED NUGENT insists he has paid his dues for avoiding the draft to fight in Vietnam - he spent “a couple of weeks ready to rock” with a giant machine gun in Afghanistan two years ago (04). The Republican rocker feels awful about avoiding the army in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but he believes he has more than made up for it. He says, “Do I feel guilt and embarrassment? Yes. “I wish I’d understood how important America’s fight against our enemies was. “But did I go to Fallujah two years ago? Damn right I did. “And was I in Afghanistan, manning a 50-calibre machine gun in a Chinook, ready to rock? Yes. “Was I there for years? No, a couple of weeks. But I am not a coward.”
Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot.
He was not afraid to die, O brave Sir Robin!
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways,
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin!
He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp,
Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken;
To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away;
And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin!
His head smashed in and his heart cut out
And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off
And his pen—
Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin!
He is packing it in and packing it up
And sneaking away and buggering up
And chickening out and PISSING off home,
Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge...
Actually he wasn`t more liberal. He just did not believe the war was for real, and he was right. It was a war started by Democrats to garner votes, they literally used the blood of our men and women of the military for their own selfish purposes. They NEVER had any intention at all of stopping Communism, and that is proven time and time again by how incredibly hostile they were towards Nixon when Nixon actually had the GALL to try and win! All those actors from nepotism who never worked a day in their lives like Jane Fonda, all those drug addicted hippies like John Lennon absolutely knew without a shadow of a doubt that once we pulled out millions would be slaughtered, yet they never gave one iota of a sh*t. And that`s exactly what happened, millions were slaughtered. They are trying to do the SAME crap today with Iraq!
Nugent changed his ways. That’s a good thing. More Baby Boomers should cross over, however late it’s getting.
I'm surprised they didn't make him a sniper.
Amen!
But a lot of baby boomers have still not grown up (i.e. 50 yr old+ hippies).
I was a 17 year old senior in high school when South Vietnam was overrun by the North in April of 1975. Having already charted my course for college and future professional goals, I did not enlist nor did I even register for the draft when I turned 18 that November, not out of cowardice or protest, but laziness and my usual propensity for procrastination.
A short time later the draft was abolished and I never registered at all. I've never served. I have, however always supported the military and favored the use of force when no other option is left, as is the case now since 9/11. I do not own any guns, nor run around in fatigues, or play paint ball or the like. I do read military histories and try to stay abreast of the subject as best a civilian can.
Does that make me a chickenhawk or keyboard commando?
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