Romney The Draft Dodging Chicken Hawk

Romney lies about everything but some of his more intriguing  lies and flip flops are about his draft dodging.

Flip 4: "It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam."
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Flop 4: "I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there."
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Mitt managed to avoid serving in Vietnam through a series of deferments. Although he protested in support of the war Mitt "Richie Rich" Romney obtained 4 deferment like so many Republican chicken hawks did during the Vietnam war. Like so many members of the ruling class, Romney favored sending poor and middle class kids to Vietnam but lacked the balls or the patriotism to walk the walk but he sure did talk the talk.

Yes, you heard that right. Not only did Mitt Romney protest in favor of sending other people’s children to die in Vietnam, even as he avoided service himself, he then complained about how those dying Americans made it “tough” for him while he was in France avoiding service.


Romney had no desire or intention to wear the uniform of any branch of the US military. He's doing what he does best lying.

Huffington Post Reports "His 31-month religious deferment expired in early 1969. And Romney received an academic studies deferment for much of the next two years. He became available for military service at the end of 1970 when his deferments ran out and he could have been drafted. But by that time, America was beginning to slice its troop levels, and Romney's relatively high lottery number – 300 out of 365 – was not called."





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Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Ooh, they're red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief"
Oh, they point the cannon at you, Lord

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no Senator's son
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, oh
But when the tax men come to the door
Lord, the house look a like a rummage sale, yes


It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no
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It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no

Yeah, some folks inherit star spangled eyes
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord
And when you ask them, "How much should we give?"
Oh, they only answer, more, more, more, yoh

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no military son
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no, no, no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate son, no, no




Not only is Romney a coward and a tax cheat he's an asshole the same as his supporters.

Romney The Draft Dodger

One thing that is true is that Romney left college to go to France as a Mormon missionary to avoid the draft.

Like Most Neocons, Mitt Romney Avoided the Draft During Vietnam Unlike most, however, he has changed his story about it
Jon Ponder | Jun 8, 2012

Romney protested in favor of the Vietnam War

Mitt Romney has built his international relations team out of many, if not most, of the same neocons whose “bomb first, ask questions never” policies were at the root of the foreign affairs disasters during the George W. Bush era.

In the 1960s, like most high-profile neocons — Dick Cheney, Ted Nugent, Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Kristol, John Bolton and their cheerleaders like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly — Mitt Romney avoided serving in the Vietnam War. Like Cheney, Romney sought and received multiple deferments. Cheney had five; Romney had four. (Like George Bush, John Bolton served in the National Guard, which was all but a guarantee against service overseas in those days.)

But unlike his fellow draft-dodging neocons, Romney has a record of lying about his deferments:

    Though an early supporter of the Vietnam War, Romney avoided military service at the height of the fighting after high school by seeking and receiving four draft deferments, according to Selective Service records. They included college deferments and a 31-month stretch as a “minister of religion” in France, a classification for Mormon missionaries that the church at the time feared was being overused.The country was cutting troop levels by the time he became eligible for the draft, and his lottery number was not called.

And.......

    As a presidential candidate in 2007, Romney told The Boston Globe he was frustrated, as a Mormon missionary, not to be fighting alongside his countrymen.  :

   “I was supportive of my country,” Romney said. “I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there, and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.”

    …But the frustration he recalled in 2007 does not match a sentiment he shared as a Massachusetts Senate candidate in 1994, when he told The Boston Herald, “I was not planning on signing up for the military.”    

“It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam, but nor did I take any actions to remove myself from the pool of young men who were eligible for the draft,” Romney told the newspaper.

More LIES by Romney the Draft Dodger


ROMNEY THE FLIP FLOP LIAR by Fat Bastard

Romney the flip flop liar
Has and ever growing nose
I'd like interrogate him
And beat him with the rubber hose

All of the other Republicans
Used used to laugh and call him liar
Till Romney the flip flop liar
Sold out to the highest buyer

Then one ugly ugly day
The Koch brothers came to say
Boy we like the way you lie
We want you to be our guy

Then all the NeoCONs loved him
As they shouted out with glee
Romney the flip flop liar
We sold our integrity?