As Judd Legum at Think Progress notes: "In 2004, however, Gingrich repeatedly bashed then Democratic nominee for President John Kerry, saying his flip-flop on Iraq war funding disqualified him from being president".
Also during World War II, Ronald Reagan, disqualified from combat because he is near-sighted, went to work in Army training films.
But he was drafted into the Army in 1968 and, while virtually everyone else in his basic training group was shipped off with the infantry to Vietnam, he wound up as a military lawyer at Fort Monmouth, N.J., where he spent much of his war trying to disqualify a miscreant manufacturer of radios from a government contract.
It's not that there was anything necessarily cowardly about the Huxleys leaving Britain in 1937 (near-blindness had already disqualified him for one world war), but Murray makes too much of their vicarious suffering in America.
Disqualified from combat duty during World War II by poor vision, he developed logistical systems for bomber raids and statistical systems for monitoring troops and supplies.
22 Trump's age when he was "medically disqualified" from the draft for the Vietnam war.
War Reports: Afghanistan The international audit of election results disqualified a significant number of votes so as to necessitate a run-off between incumbent Hamid Karzai and his chief rival Abdullah Abdullah.
But after World War II, he was so frustrated because the secret nature of his research disqualified him from receiving college credit for it that he switched careers.
Asthma disqualified him from military service, but he spent a satisfying second world war at the BBC Overseas Service, where he learned, and enjoyed, the arts of black propaganda.
Unfortunately, Turkey seems for the time being to have disqualified itself as mediator because of its statements on the Israeli-Gaza war.
