Did Dick Cheney Have Sex with His Wife One Night in October of 1965 Simply to Get Out of Vietnam?

Dick Cheney and the Heart of War

Vice President of the United States and the chief architect of the illegal US invasion of Iraq (sorry George, but we now know you were little more than your place in this debacle is behind Donald Rumsfailed, hence your resistance to fire him despite conducting a war against Iraq—Iraq!—that it is now clear is going to go on longer than World War II) recently made this statement regarding the Democrats’ move to set a timeline for bringing troops home: To cut and run now would send the message to terrorists that the US doesn’t have the stomach for a prolonged war.

How amazingly convenient that Dick Cheney himself finally found the intestinal fortitude to stick with a prolonged war when he was too old to actually fight for his principles himself. You see, Dickie—may I call him Dickie—no? Okay, Dickless, you see had a golden opportunity to test his stomach for prolonged warfare in defense of American principles when he was a young man. Dickless was of draft age at the height of the Vietnam war.

In July of 1965 as Lyndon Johnson—a Democrat, mind you, proving that unnecessary wars are not the exclusive domain of the Republicans—was ramping up the business for Exxon and DuPont over in Vietnam, he found he needed more troops than he had so therefore doubled the draft calls. On October 26, 1965 the Selective Service changed its mind about married men being drafted. It would now accepted married men without children, though married men with children would remain exempt. Since Dickless was classified as 1-A that meant he would he could be drafted regardless of his being a married man.