A Blessing In Disguise?

During the heat of the 2004 campaign, a fair amount of criticism was directed at Dick Cheney because he had received five deferments to avoid serving in the military during the Vietnam war. The vice president has since said that he had "other priorities" at the time. Unpatriotic democrats had the nerve to call that hypocrisy since Cheney was so eager to send others into harm's way in Iraq while weaseling out of it himself.

Well, in retrospect, it's probably a good thing Cheney avoided military service. Otherwise he probably would have ended up shooting his own men.