Reply #1: powell quote on Nat'l Guard during vietnam

[ithacan]

someone HAS to throw that out into the mainstream! The quote, on a number of threads here at DU, from Powell's book, where he says the National Guard allowed the wealthy and elite to avoid service during Vietnam, while poor and middle class kids with no connections were sent off to die.

Also, the National Guard during Vietnam was not the same as it is now. There was a DRAFT at the time. The military could get all the manpower it needed that way and didn't have to rely on the NG...

what f***ing liars!!!