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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Isn't the current administration sort of anomalous in that regard, though? If you look back across the last century, most presidents and candidates have had some measure of military service. Clinton didn't, but Gore did--and Kerry, obviously. On the republican side, Bush I was a WWII vet, Carter was a vet, the list goes on. This chickenhawk phenomenon seems to be pretty much a post-Reagan phenomenon, as far as I can tell. (unless you count FDR--and he had a pretty good reason)
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In my mind, what divides Clinton and FDR from Bush II is that neither of the first two were hawks. Dan Quayle seems to have been the first popularly labeled with this term. I guess Georgie made the right decision in not going to Viet Nam or, with his ineptness, he may have been the victim of a fragging.