> I cringe a little to think that anyone would think of Bill Clinton as a
> good
> example of a draft "resistor" and that draft resistors could be seen as
> soft
> on war. I can think of no principled stance that Clinton has taken that
> cost
> him anything on a personal level, whereas some of us who opposed the war
> and
> chose to back it up by going to prison, have remained staunch in our
> belligerent pacifism even as we deal with the residue of violence that we
> encountered in the battlefields behind bars. Further, I would guess that
> most of us would never hope to be elected to public office (a position of
> no
> distinction within our current political system).
> Marc Levin