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What Donald Trump, Dick Cheney and Donald Bolton Have in Common?
Answer: They all avoided serving in the Vietnam War. Not surprised? How is it that these leaders all manage to present themselves as “tough guys” but diligently dodged a path away from real fighting?
All three are what Newsweek calls chickenhawks. What is a chickenhawk, you ask? “According to Urban Dictionary, a “chickenhawk” can refer to: ‘a politician or other person who promotes war without having had any personal experience of it; especially those who have avoided the experience.’" Let’s see how they managed to avoid military service in Vietnam.
Mr. Trump had five deferments to avoid Vietnam according to Business Insider.
As for Dick Cheney, according The New York Times:
“It was 1959 when Dick Cheney, then a student at Yale University, turned 18 and became eligible for the draft. Eventually, like 16 million other young men of that era, Mr. Cheney sought deferments. By the time he turned 26 in January 1967 and was no longer eligible for the draft, he had asked for and received five deferments, four because he was a student and one for being a new father.”
As for Trump and Bolton, Newsweek reported :
The president [Trump]reportedly avoided service in the Vietnam War after his father called in a favor with a…
