"In America you ask your young men to lay down their lives for their country and we ask our young women to lay down for theirs". Really?

I know one old, fat, moron who dodged the draft five times.

That is what I know.



Sen. John McCain never mentioned President Trump in criticizing the Vietnam War-era draft system that allowed the wealthy and connected to avoid military service.

But the Arizona senator didn't have to as he blasted "bone spur" medical deferments, which Trump used to avoid service during the war.

"We drafted the lowest-income level of America, and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur," McCain said in an interview Sunday on C-SPAN's "American History" program. "That is wrong. That is wrong. If we’re going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve."

Trump and McCain have never much bonded, ever since then-candidate Trump mocked the former fighter pilot, who was held in captivity for nearly five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, scoffing that he preferred "people who weren't captured."

McCain, who tried and failed twice to become president, and is now battling brain cancer, has emerged as one of the president's most outspoken Republican critics.

Asked on Monday if he meant Trump was a draft-dodger, McCain explained he was criticizing the draft as "one of the great inequities of the Vietnam conflict."

"I don’t consider him so much a draft dodger as much as I feel that the system was so wrong that certain Americans could evade their responsibilities to serve the country, " he said during an appearance, alongside his daughter, Meghan, on "The View."

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