Major Avoidance

It surprised me, folks, to learn that Biden, from 11/63 to 1/68, received a grand-total of five student-draft deferments (deferments, obviously, that kept him from having to serve in Vietnam). It also surprised me to learn that this was the some number that Vice President Dick Cheney received roughly during the same period (actually, Cheney is two years older than Biden and, because of this, his chances of having to serve during the more intensified parts of the carnage were LESS). I also learned (and here's where it gets real good) that Biden, once he finally graduated from Law School, ultimately received a medical diagnosis of asthma (no prior diagnosis or record of treatments could I find) - a diagnosis that conveniently made him medically ineligible for service, period........................................................Do I have a problem with any of this. No, not really. I mean, who the hell (other than the most patriotic among us) in his right mind wanted to go to Vietnam (not just a war, mind you, but a stupid/needless one), for Christ? I just thought that the parallels to Cheney were kind of interesting. Granted, Cheney supposedly supported the war and, even after 1966 (the year he turned 25), he still could have enlisted. But, damn it, I didn't think that whether or not a person supported a war was necessarily a grounds for avoiding it. And the fact that we've had such a litany of these pols (Cheney, Bush, Quayle, Clinton, Dean, Biden), who seemingly had other "priorities" during Vietnam and who left that war to the poorest among us - I just find it kind of revealing, that's all..................................................P.S. While it may be true that Biden was against the war in Vietnam, let us NOT forget that in 2002 he voted to give George W. Bush what amounted to a blank-check; a blank-check that Bush used to get us involved in Iraq. Four thousand American deaths later....................................................P.S. 2 Seriously, though, am I the only one who finds it curious that Biden went all through high-school, college, his times as a life-guard, and, finally, law-school, and never seemingly sought help for this supposed asthma? I don't know, folks, it sounds at least a little fishy to me.