Ted Nugent was a draft dodger. Really.
The background
Regarding last week’s Fact Checker sidebar,
Mark Nelson of Sparks wrote, “(Fact Checker) said that since Ted
registered for the draft and did not go to Canada, he is not a draft
dodger. A quick Google check shows the definition of a draft dodger is
someone who ‘evades compulsory military service.’ It says nothing about
Canada or failure to register. By his own admission, Nugent faked
symptoms and used drugs to keep from being drafted. Nugent is a draft
dodger.”
The original column was more interested in whether it’s
hypocrisy for someone to hold different views at age 64 than at age 18.
The question of draft-dodging during the Vietnam War, when some young
men were forced to serve by the government, probably wasn’t given its
due....Uncle Ted Wants You
By Jack Goldsmith
Sunday, September 1, 2013 at 7:27 AM
(a) Authorization. (click here) — The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in connection with the use of chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in the conflict in Syria in order to –
(1) prevent or deter the use or proliferation (including the transfer to terrorist groups or other state or non-state actors), within, to or from Syria, of any weapons of mass destruction, including chemical or biological weapons or components of or materials used in such weapons; or
(2) protect the United States and its allies and partners against the threat posed by such weapons.
Like I said, Obama doesn't need authorization. The USA is already at war in the region. There is nothing stopping him now or in the future. He has already lied to justify the demand for more military spending. Blood money. He'll kill more people in a month than Assad did in two years.
Congress's approval has no brevity here. None. Hagel and Obama are getting all kinds of grief from the weaning of the military. The Sky is Falling, the Sky is Falling.
Senior officials (click here) in the Obama administration said that President Obama may still decide to strike Syria even if Congress disapproves of military action, CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller tweeted Saturday.
He is President and hears about how he is going to kill people in the USA and with allies IF he doesn't act. He hears it from the NSA, why do you think Rice is National Security Adviser. He is tired of hearing the whining. This is the MILITARY. This is the Poor Military and it's Sequester cuts.
It isn't as though they aren't getting facts, it is just that the whining and insistence has achieved a new pitch. This is all about money. It has nothing to do with national security or regional stability. A war would return the money to the military they lost with Boner. That is all this is. That and what's her name, Powers and a mission to change the paradigm of genocide. "A Dream Come True" from the USA Military Elite.
Get over it. The USA military is a huge problem to this country. They have got more war plans based on stupid ideas about borders and danger than any other agency on Earth. The Yemen leadership is starting to sound as if they are Musharraf when he was Pakistan's leader. Everyone is attempting to kill him if they only get a chance. Why is that?
"The Ghost of Bush/Cheney rides again, can victory be far away?
