That one guy who was in that movie 2. No, wait, he's dead. Fact is, the real anti-war activists were willing to marginalize themselves for their beliefs. Clinton hitched a ride. Even the famous letter he wrote to avoid military service is a masterpiece of weasely evasion, written with one eye on his political viability.
Some people find themselves loathing the military.
Yet we all know what he means. It's implausible deniability. But it works for his fellow fine people. Why, the cossetted offspring of the Greatest Generation. These tender plums and peaches, raised in the quiet groves of suburbia, simply could not believe they might be required to die in someone else's civil war.