Posted on 08/12/2024 5:22:09 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
As soon as I heard Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance smearing the military service of his opponent, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, all I could think was: Seriously? Are we really doing this again?
Are we really going to allow Republicans — who are freaking out now that their presumed glide path back to the White House has become a very bumpy road — to slime Walz the way they slimed Vietnam veteran John Kerry 20 years ago?
“When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, do you know what he did?” Vance said last week in Michigan. “He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him — a fact that he’s been criticized for aggressively by a lot of the people that he served with.” Numerous journalists have called out this lie. They have also reported that the “people he served with” are Republicans rooting for former President Trump.
Walz served 24 years in the Army National Guard before being honorably discharged. During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, he was stationed in Italy, providing support to American combat troops. In early 2005, months before his unit was ordered to Iraq, he decided to retire from the Guard to run for Congress. He became only the second Democrat in more than a century to capture a traditionally Republican seat and continued to support the military as a member of the House Armed Services and Veterans Affairs committees.
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So, we’re supposed to accept an argument from a mere journalist against someone who’s demonstrated success in virtually everything he’s tried?
Hey, journalist, go back and try some occuptaion that’s more demanding of intellect, like “studies”.
Barfo.
Their only response to this is ridicule.
It’s all they’ve got and standard MO.
Tampontim has demonstrated that he is a stolen valor-lying, murdering traitor.
THE L A TIMES is NEVER going to GROW UP
He is bad news and Harris has shown she is no better.
I am looking at who backs that piece of bad. How far has society fallen.
There is Trump who can.will save us for awhile. And there are the dems with utter destruction and no morals..
The pos got 3 purple hearts, a bronze and silver star.
I think we are required to use the term “Haunted John Kerry” when using his name….. 🤣
Tampon Tim?
There were no front lines in Iraq or Afghanistan.
I like the way many Trump supporters say John McCain was a loser, and Ron DeSantimous didn’t really serve in Iraq, and this guy was Eye-patch McCain and that guy was a REMF; and, are A-OK with their guy avoiding the draft during the Viet Nam War, and raising two strapping young lads who didn’t serve in the military.
As for myself, I used to have some sympathy with the argument that some guys were REMFs. When I was told that, as an infantryman, I had fourteen guys behind me, my reaction was “Who do I get behind?” I think that’s only natural.
I don’t blame tankers for wanting more steel between them and the enemy. But, my fatigue shirt offered a lot less protection even when heavily-starched.
I used to think that people who joined the Guard or Reserve were avoiding service. One fellow in particular, who was National Chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom, I knew had a low draft number but wasn’t drafted. What was up with that? Then I saw him at ROTC camp. If he was a draft evader, wasn’t I also. At least in the sense of avoiding the worst of the Viet Nam War?
But, with time, I reconsidered my attitude. When they mobilized the Guard and Reserve to rotate through Iraq and Afghanistan, I figured out that somebody else made the decision to deploy or not to deploy the Guard or Reserve, not the weekend warriors. Ditto serving in one unit versus another, or where somebody is stationed. Nowadays, I’m just happy to have served. Ditto raising my son, that he served in the military.
I do not look at those who didn’t serve with envy. Rather, I think on the words of Shakespeare, put into the mouth of Henry V;
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
The answer will be on the tip of their tongues.
FDR was thinking of Tim Walz when he proclaimed: Don’t change horses in the middle of the stream!”
What an idiot the writer is.
Only a whiny moron complains about the truth being pointed out.
You weren't even good enough to shine an REMF's boots.
But you can practice.
Go home and get your shine box.
Henry Wirz (born Hartmann Heinrich Wirz; November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was an American convicted war criminal who served as a Confederate Army officer during the American Civil War.[1] He was the commandant of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp near Andersonville, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 Union Army prisoners of war died as result of inhumane conditions. After the war, Wirz was tried and executed for conspiracy and murder relating to his command of the camp. Since his execution, Wirz has become a controversial figure due to debate about his guilt and reputation, including criticism over his personal responsibility for Andersonville Prison's conditions and the quality of his post-war trial.
That isn’t milk!! Ewwwww!!!
They shined like mirrors.
Dems cannot be trusted with national security ... ever.
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