- Dick Cheney: did not serve. (Five deferments!)
- Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
- Tom Delay: did not serve.
- Bill Frist: did not serve.
- Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
- Rick Santorum: did not serve.
- Trent Lott: did not serve.
- John Ashcroft: did not serve. (Seven deferments!)
- Jeb Bush: did not serve.
- Karl Rove: did not serve.
- Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. (Because of his “bad knee”; and this is the sorry excuse of a man who attacked Max Cleland’s patriotism.)
- Richard Shelby: did not serve.
- Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
- Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
- Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
- Kemp: did not serve. The active NFL star had a “knee problem.”
- Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
- Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
- George Pataki: did not serve.
- Phil Gramm: did not serve.
- Ronald Reagan: Even our old friend reagan, didn’t fight the good fight. “Poor eyesight” kept him in a non-combat role, making propaganda films. But it didn’t keep him from accidentally remembering himselv in combat service years later, only to be reminded that was just a movie.
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