According to Fox News, Walz was the 20th Hijacker

[jotathought]

Well, for one, he didn’t quit the reserves because he was going to a combat zone.

His boss disagrees with you.

 

[Mac-7]

& now for the truth...

Fact-checking attacks on Walz’s military record by Vance and other Republicans​

Politics Aug 11, 2024 5:32 PM EDT

Walz retired from the Minnesota National Guard in May 2005. He had submitted retirement paperwork five to seven months beforehand, Fox News reported, citing the Minnesota National Guard.

In March 2005, Walz’s battalion had been notified about a possible deployment to Iraq within two years, Walz’s congressional campaign said in a news release that month, citing the National Guard Public Affairs Office. The Minnesota National Guard said the battalion then received an official order about mobilizing for deployment to Iraq in July 2005, after Walz retired.

Vance’s statement misleads by distorting the timeline. Walz had not been “asked by his country to go to Iraq,” as Vance said. He had been given a two-year window for a potential, not definite, deployment. And the official deployment notice came after Walz’s retirement.

Walz has said since before his Army retirement that he left to run for Congress. He filed his candidacy paperwork in February 2005, before the March 2005 notification about the potential deployment.
Fact-checking attacks on Walz's military record by Vance and other Republicans

damn those pesky facts.

BOMBSHELL: Tim Walz's Former Superior Goes on CNN, Delivers Devastating Testimony

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Command Seargent Major Doug Julin, who was the now-Minnesota governor's direct report, went through the timeline with Laura Coates. Not only did Walz know about the deployment, but he had committed to go. It was only after he went around Julin that he was able to secure his retirement, leaving his unit hamstrung just months before they shipped out.

Walz knew he was deploying and now he’s lying about it

 

[candycorn]

His boss disagrees with you.

That would be fake news.

 

[Winco]

PBS fact checking? Lol

So prove otherwise.
Damn it upsets you so much when your narrative is blown up with FACTS.

Are you calling these dates quoted below.........are you calling them LIES?

Walz retired from the Minnesota National Guard in May 2005. He had submitted retirement paperwork five to seven months beforehand, Fox News reported, citing the Minnesota National Guard.

In March 2005, Walz’s battalion had been notified about a possible deployment to Iraq within two years, Walz’s congressional campaign said in a news release that month, citing the National Guard Public Affairs Office. The Minnesota National Guard said the battalion then received an official order about mobilizing for deployment to Iraq in July 2005, after Walz retired.

Vance’s statement misleads by distorting the timeline. Walz had not been “asked by his country to go to Iraq,” as Vance said. He had been given a two-year window for a potential, not definite, deployment. And the official deployment notice came after Walz’s retirement.

Walz has said since before his Army retirement that he left to run for Congress. He filed his candidacy paperwork in February 2005, before the March 2005 notification about the potential deployment.

 

[Mac-7]

That would be fake news.

Command Seargent Major Doug Julin, who was the now-Minnesota governor's direct report, went through the timeline with Laura Coates. Not only did Walz know about the deployment, but he had committed to go. It was only after he went around Julin that he was able to secure his retirement, leaving his unit hamstrung just months before they shipped out.

 

[Dragonlady]

Which "accusations" have been wrong?

All of the above.

 

[Mac-7]

So prove otherwise.
Damn it upsets you so much when your narrative is blown up with FACTS.

Are you calling these dates quoted below.........are you calling them LIES?

No, Command Seargent Major Doug Julin is calling Walz a liar

 

[Dragonlady]

Command Seargent Major Doug Julin, who was the now-Minnesota governor's direct report, went through the timeline with Laura Coates. Not only did Walz know about the deployment, but he had committed to go. It was only after he went around Julin that he was able to secure his retirement, leaving his unit hamstrung just months before they shipped out.

Bullshit. Total lie from top to bottom.

There are no limits to the depths you will think to, in order to slander a member of the Democratic Party.

 

[rampart]

You gave me a thumbs down and thats ok

But Walz own fellow soldiers accuse him of bailing out instead of fulfilling his NG obligations

were you in viet nam mac?

when a guy's time was up most of them chose to go home. there were good reasons for an extended tour, but if you didn't have one it is not cowardice or desertion to go home.

it is not the "nights watch out of westeros, where you serve until death.

"and now his watch is over." i sure went home. 2 good everything left too. like winning the lottery.

 

[candycorn]

So prove otherwise.
Damn it upsets you so much when your narrative is blown up with FACTS.

Are you calling these dates quoted below.........are you calling them LIES?

Facts are not their friends....neither is anyone else for that matter.

All of the crazy attacks on Walz are just so silly. And, ya know, if any of them did have a nugget of truth to them, perhaps they would get some legs to them but these guys have cried wolf so often.... Remember 6 weeks ago--biden was on cocaine? Everyone of these scumbags who are saying this nonsense about Walz was repeating that crap. Before that it was Obama not being born in the US...It goes back decades. All to prop up their orange blob--a 34X convicted felon.

That is today’s GOP.

 

[playtime]

PBS fact checking? Lol

FactCheck.org®
FactCheck Posts › Featured Posts

Attacks on Walz’s Military Record​

By Robert Farley, D'Angelo Gore and Eugene Kiely
Posted on August 8, 2024 | Updated on August 12, 2024 | Corrected on August 9, 2024

Walz’s Retirement from the National Guard​

Al Bonnifield, who served under Walz, also recalled Walz agonizing over the decision.

“It was a very long conversation behind closed doors,” Bonnifield told the Washington Post this week. “He was trying to decide where he could do better for soldiers, for veterans, for the country. He weighed that for a long time.”

In 2018, Bonnifield told MPR News that Walz worried in early 2005, “Would the soldier look down on him because he didn’t go with us? Would the common soldier say, ‘Hey, he didn’t go with us, he’s trying to skip out on a deployment?’ And he wasn’t. He talked with us for quite a while on that subject. He weighed that decision to run for Congress very heavy. He loved the military, he loved the guard, he loved the soldiers he worked with.”

But not all of Walz’s fellow Guard members felt that way.

In a paid letter to the West Central Tribune in Minnesota in November 2018, Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr — both retired command sergeants major in the Minnesota National Guard — wrote, “On May 16th, 2005 he [Walz] quit, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging; without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war...
Attacks on Walz's Military Record - FactCheck.org

 

[rampart]

Facts are not their friends....neither is anyone else for that matter.

All of the crazy attacks on Walz are just so silly. And, ya know, if any of them did have a nugget of truth to them, perhaps they would get some legs to them but these guys have cried wolf so often.... Remember 6 weeks ago--biden was on cocaine? Everyone of these scumbags who are saying this nonsense about Walz was repeating that crap. Before that it was Obama not being born in the US...It goes back decades. All to prop up their orange blob--a 34X convicted felon.

That is today’s GOP.

"trump has created an environment in which skepticism is warranted." michael steele , fmr rnc chmn

 

[playtime]

You gave me a thumbs down and thats ok

But Walz own fellow soldiers accuse him of bailing out instead of fulfilling his NG obligations

Paid letter: The Truth About Tim Walz​

Published November 02, 2018 at 6:00 PM
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This is a paid endorsement letter to the editor.
https://www.wctrib.com/community/letters/the-truth-about-tim-walz

 

[Dragonlady]

No, Command Seargent Major Doug Julin is calling Walz a liar

And you believe him over Nstional Guard Records????

How do you know he isn’t another one of trumps “paid informant” as per Politifact.

Sara Swann, PolitiFact | Author | PBS News

www.pbs.org

 

[Mac-7]

were you in viet nam mac?

when a guy's time was up most of them chose to go home. there were good reasons for an extended tour, but if you didn't have one it is not cowardice or desertion to go home.

it is not the "nights watch out of westeros, where you serve until death.

"and now his watch is over." i sure went home. 2 good everything left too. like winning the lottery.

Walz final enlistment was for 6 years and he needed permission to retire early

 

[Meathead]

Its just about the only thing the looney right hasn’t accused him of being.

No, just a coward.

 

[The Duke]

True.

And the lies are getting even more ridiculous and desperate.

You mean like Biden's been competent since 2019?

 

[Captain Caveman]

& now for the truth...

Fact-checking attacks on Walz’s military record by Vance and other Republicans​

Politics Aug 11, 2024 5:32 PM EDT

Walz retired from the Minnesota National Guard in May 2005. He had submitted retirement paperwork five to seven months beforehand, Fox News reported, citing the Minnesota National Guard.

In March 2005, Walz’s battalion had been notified about a possible deployment to Iraq within two years, Walz’s congressional campaign said in a news release that month, citing the National Guard Public Affairs Office. The Minnesota National Guard said the battalion then received an official order about mobilizing for deployment to Iraq in July 2005, after Walz retired.

Vance’s statement misleads by distorting the timeline. Walz had not been “asked by his country to go to Iraq,” as Vance said. He had been given a two-year window for a potential, not definite, deployment. And the official deployment notice came after Walz’s retirement.

Walz has said since before his Army retirement that he left to run for Congress. He filed his candidacy paperwork in February 2005, before the March 2005 notification about the potential deployment.
Fact-checking attacks on Walz's military record by Vance and other Republicans

damn those pesky facts.

That's convenient, what a lucky chap

 

[The Duke]

Bullshit. Total lie from top to bottom.

There are no limits to the depths you will think to, in order to slander a member of the Democratic Party.

No need for that, they're bad enough as it is.

 

[Hellbilly]

Its just about the only thing the looney right hasn’t accused him of being.

You forgot one.