Well well, in the fine tradition of George Dubya Bush, Dick Cheney, and Joe Lieberman, now enter stage right Rudy Giuliani, yet another classic chickenhawk draft/war evader.
We might have guessed.
Doncha just love these guys that are all war and the more war the better, but when it came to their own lives & war, they "had other priorities"? (Yes, I know that Dubya protected Texas from the invading Vietnamese hordes as a fake fighter pilot and real cocaine cowboy.)
This is the very first that I have learned of Rudy's life as a chickenhawk, so I am passing it along.
If Rudy gets the GOP nomination, let's make sure that his life as a chickenhawk gets ample airplay, since he would be running as Mr. macho tough guy.
Here, enjoy:
"During his years as an undergraduate at Manhattan College and then at New York University Law School, Giuliani qualified for a student deferment. Upon graduation from law school in 1968, he lost that temporary deferment and his draft status reverted to 1-A, the designation awarded to those most qualified for induction into the Army. At the same time, Giuliani won a clerkship with federal Judge Lloyd McMahon in the fabled Southern District of New York, where he would become the United States attorney. He naturally had no desire to trade his ticket on the legal profession's fast track for latrine duty in the jungle. So he quickly applied for another deferment based on his judicial clerkship. This time the Selective Service System denied his claim. That was when the desperate Giuliani prevailed upon his boss to write to the draft board, asking them to grant him a fresh deferment and reclassification as an "essential" civilian employee. As the great tabloid columnist Jimmy Breslin noted 20 years later, during the former prosecutor's first campaign for mayor: 'Giuliani did not attend the war in Vietnam because federal Judge Lloyd MacMahon [sic] wrote a letter to the draft board in 1969 and got him out. Giuliani was a law clerk for MacMahon, who at the time was hearing Selective Service cases. MacMahon's letter to Giuliani's draft board stated that Giuliani was so necessary as a law clerk that he could not be allowed to get shot at in Vietnam.'"