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Via A.J. Delgado:
Chucky, Tim had already completed his 20 yrs. Second, you only went (for six months!) bc you were a doing PUBLIC AFFAIRS work / press releases there. You were a glorified bitch w a clipboard and a pen and, of course, your eyeliner.
#JD Vance:
You know what really bothers me about Tim #Walz?
When the US Marine Corps asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it.
Barney
Here are the facts about Walz's military service. Let's not let the lies win.
Barney
Here's an example of the disgusting swift-boating lies with which GOP is now bombarding Walz.
Walz served in the Army National Guard for 24 years. Then he retired. He didn't "drop out." He never saw combat, and never claimed that he did.
JD Vance served in the Marine Corps (as James D. Hamel), for 4 years, and then left. He too never saw combat. He was a public affairs officer. Basically, a publicist.
I see no need to help the GOP attack Walz.
66gardeners
@barney @GreenFire @rlstone4dems @GottaLaff
The problem is the Iraq war was based upon lies. Illegal orders would be par for the course in such a war.
Barney
@66gardeners @GreenFire @rlstone4dems
That's exactly the kind of fascist-empowering bullshit that we're hoping to avoid.
Illegal orders are those that violate military or international humanitarian law, like torturing prisoners.
During the Vietnam War, another war that was predicated largely on lies, many Americans blamed returning soldiers for the war that they were ordered to fight. In the 1980s, we collectively recognized our grievous error, and sought to atone for our sins.
Barney
@GreenFire @rlstone4dems @GottaLaff
I would hold individual soldiers responsible for obeying illegal orders, such as Russian soldiers' orders to attack civilian malls and apartment buildings, or their kidnapping 20,000 Ukrainian children and shipping them back to Russia.
Here I'm just concerned with potentially giving oxygen to a false right-wing attack. They'll probably try to swift-boat Walz with their weird "evaded military service" slur.
Barney
@GreenFire @rlstone4dems @GottaLaff
That take could be seen as reinforcing the right-wing lie that Walz somehow evaded military service. He served in the Army National Guard for 24 years, and then, like most other soldiers who have served that long, he retired.
I think it's also worthwhile to avoid any suggestion that soldiers are to blame for the wars that they're ordered to fight.
Kevin Leecaster
@barney @rlstone4dems @GottaLaff
You do not hold the Russian soldiers at all accountable for following Putin's orders?
Oh well, you are of course welcome to your opinions.
Kevin Leecaster
@rlstone4dems @GottaLaff
I'm so psyched that Tim Walz didn't go help contribute to Bush Junior's debacle in Iraq. I wish that more soldiers had of decided to not follow that ignoramus into a losing war over there.
Laffy
2/ Via Ben Wikler:
The reality is that #Trump who escaped his own service and then described avoiding sexually transmitted diseases as his personal Vietnam is someone who is in a glass house trying to throw stones through the wall. Tim Walz served for 24 years
Laffy
3/ Via Ron Filipkowski:
Republicans are really going to try and disparage Tim Walz’s 25 years of service in the Army while their nominee for president had his rich daddy get one of his doctor tenants to write a letter to the draft board claiming young Donnie had bone spurs? That’s the play?
Rory
@GottaLaff These idiot republicans will try to. But hopefully it'll fail... I mean, how do you attack a decorated militant with 25 year's service? Surely not with a person like TFG who was hiding under his dinner table...
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