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So, like the monkey bars, we’re finding out Tim Walz is full of lies, because unlike the Harris campaign, people are actually scrutinizing him. Especially the veteran part. And he’s coming off the biggest highlight of his resume: his service in the Army National Guard. As the Washington Free Beacon points out, when Walz first ran for Congress in 2006, his campaign described him as an “Operation Enduring Freedom veteran.” That’s usually the case for someone who served on the ground in Afghanistan in the war on terror. But for him, it was more like “Operation Enjoy Freedom” in Italy, not Afghanistan. Here he is, talking about his experience in that operation in 2007, after he was elected to Congress.
Tim Waltz: I spent 24 years in the National Guard, some of it full time. I was an artilleryman. We deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. My battalion provided security for bases throughout the European Theater, from Turkey to the UK, during the early stages of the Afghanistan war. And that same battalion is now in Iraq.
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Now it seems he was much closer to the battlefield than he actually was. In fact, he was deployed to a base in Italy. Not in Operation Enduring Freedom, but rather in Operation Enduring Pasta. Just kidding. And in 2009, a local veteran came to his Minnesota office and asked staff if they could mistakenly assume he’d served in Afghanistan based on his website biography. Staff responded that maybe, just maybe.
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The veteran suggested that Waltz might rewrite his name to say he had served in Italy, but Waltz’s office did nothing, although they did provide the veteran with a box of military tampons.
Additionally, in 2022, two fellow National Guard members said Waltz achieved the rank of master sergeant but did not complete the coursework required to maintain that rank and retired at a lower rank. The Minnesota National Guard has confirmed this. But he still lists himself as a master sergeant on his website. Apparently, his resume is padded out more than Joy Behar’s toilet seat.
So did he lie about his rank to fuel his political ambitions in the same way he avoided the war? Does it matter? If his job is to lead young people on the battlefield, and his desire to dine with Barack and Michelle is more important, he never deserved to lead anyone in the first place. And yet the Harris campaign just posted a video of Waltz saying weapons carried in war shouldn’t be brought off the battlefield.
Tim Waltz: I served in the Army for 25 years, and I paid it back, and I’ll tell you what I’ve done. I’ve voted for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can do CDC research. We can make states mutually exclusive from owning guns, and we can make sure that the weapons of war that I carried into war are the only place they can function.
Next time they’ll say they carved butter with a bayonet. But if Tim Walz said we should ban the weapons he carried in the war, and he didn’t carry them, doesn’t that mean we can keep all our weapons? Great. I want an Abrams tank. Again, he’s never been in a war zone, except in the states during the George Floyd riots. In fact, after he was appointed acting senior NCO, when his unit was called up to Iraq, he ran off and ran for Congress. But now even CNN is bashing him.
CNN Guest: Governor Walz made several statements while speaking to the group that implied he had possessed a weapon in a combat situation. There is a difference between being in a combat zone, being involved in wartime, and actually being in a position to be fired upon. There is no evidence that Governor Walz was in a position to be fired upon at any time, and it is easy to infer that some of his statements were. So, that is completely false.
Oh my goodness, it’s CNN! Yes. Wow. Who did Walz upset? Did he steal Jake Tapper’s Juggs Magazine? BTW, listen to Minnesota Senator Tina Smith compare Walz to JD Vance.
Sene Tina Smith: Now, here we have Tim Waltz, who enlisted at age 17 and served 24 years in the National Guard. I don’t know that J.D. Vance ever served. So let’s compare.
Let’s stop, Tina. First, you’re leaving out the point. No one is accusing Vance of lying, and it’s kind of hard to believe you don’t know about his military service. What else do you not know? That he stole John Denver’s hairstyle? In fact, lies like this got Brian Williams demoted, and the closest he’s come to fighting was when he was near Matt Lauer’s office. But apparently the new tactic here is to muddy the waters. Right, Nance?
Andrew Mitchell of MSNBCJ.D. Vance criticized him for having no combat experience.
Nancy Pelosi: Is that so? Is that so? Did J.D. Vance take part in the battle?
Andrea Mitchell: Well, I think he was in Iraq..
I think so. Oh, that’s some journalist stuff. Now, Nance, JD never said he was in combat, unlike Waltz. You could have heard that loud and clear if your ears hadn’t been blocked by that last face lift. But the weirdest opinion is from Mayor Pete, who writes, “Disparaging a soldier’s achievements because he was deployed is like disparaging a woman’s civil rights because she happens to have children.” So, does that mean that two months of paternity leave made him an expert on childbirth? Worst analogy ever. Are non-deployed soldiers like women without children?
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Maybe it would be if childless women told people if they had kids in order to receive benefits. Mayor Pete managed to derail the train and the conversation. So it seems Democrats only fight when it’s political and then get on the defensive. The problem is that what they stand for for so many Americans is indefensible. You can lie about stolen valor, but you can’t make veterans forget it.
