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In message qd0Dc.117009$0y.58857@attbi_s03, Mike Dargan
writes Can anyone remember the 1972 election? During WWII Richard Nixon ran a Navy fruit drink stand at some South Pacific backwater supply base while George McGovern was leading groups of B24s in daylight attacks on Nazi Europe. I'm hardly a Nixon fan - but bug juice doesn't make and serve itself, and recruits don't get a lot of say where they serve. I'll offer myself as an example: fit and fairly smart, I'm also badly short-sighted, a fact that modern contact lenses let me mostly ignore. Would I be a coward if, sent to the USAAF, I ended up ground crew rather than a fighter pilot? You go where the needs of the Service dictate - that's still true now - and you do the job you're given as best you can. If there's evidence that Nixon used undue influence to get himself a cushty job, then by all means show it. If all you can say is that he went where he was sent and might have sighed with relief... too bad. They're trying to pull the same trick in 2004. The US electorate will decide, and only the results are my problem. You picked the candidates, you choose the winner, you live with the results.. -- He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Julius Caesar I:2 Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk |
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