The 2000 Election
"In serving in a George Walker Bush administration, General Powell will serve a president who avoided service in Vietnam by joining the Texas Air National Guard. And yet General Powell, in his memoirs, condemned as 'an anti-democratic disgrace' the way America's political leaders chose who would and who would not serve in Vietnam.

He wrote: 'I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed' managed 'to wrangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units.'

'Of the many tragedies of Vietnam,' he continued, 'this raw class discrimination strikes me a the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegiance to their country.'"
posted by James at 12/16/2000 02:29:14 PM