Originally posted by aps214
This is single handedly the most shocking thing I think I have ever seen. Ali didnt fight in Vietnam because he disagreed with the war. He wasnt even going to fight, the US wanted him to be a 'morale booster' - go over to Nam to cheer the troops up. No way did they want to send Ali into battle - can you imagine the bad propaganda if the heavyweight champion of the world had gotten killed!? He didnt go to war because it, just like Iraq, was a bull**** war that had NOTHING to do with Americans. Countless American lives were ruined because of a warmongering president without morales. Also, why would Ali want to fight for his country after the way he had been treated by the majority of white Americans? As Ali said, "no Vietcong ever called me a ******".
He wasnt a draft dodger. If that had been WW2, where the war was worth fighting, Ali would have been there. Someone else said that his religion allows him to kill people in the ring but not in war - wrong. If you think boxing is about trying to kill people then you are watching the wrong sport my friend. It IS a brutal sport, but not one boxer enters the ring HOPING to kill someone. And rules are in place to make it as safe as possible. It is not drowning a village with Agent Orange of Napalm
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