{"id":244369,"date":"2024-08-08T06:36:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T10:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=244369"},"modified":"2024-08-08T06:43:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T10:43:47","slug":"stolen-valor-walz-under-fire-for-bailing-on-iraq-tour-then-lying-about-combat-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=244369","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8216;Stolen Valor&#8217;: Walz Under Fire For Bailing On Iraq Tour, Then Lying About Combat Deployment<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/stolen-valor-walz-under-fire-bailing-iraq-tour-then-lying-about-combat-deployment\"><strong>READ HERE:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kamala Harris&#8217; VP pick Tim Walz has come under fire over his extreme left-wing policies, from joking about helping illegal immigrants into the country by investing in a &#8216;ladder company,&#8217; to signing a law that gives them driver&#8217;s licenses, to\u00a0<strong>delaying the deployment<\/strong>\u00a0of the National Guard during the Georger Floyd riots.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/walz-apparently-fudged-details-of-service-in-army-national-guard-prompting-accusations-of-stolen-valor.jpg?itok=adNq2YBv\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"9ee55019-62fb-40f7-91df-9e1a0c101006\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>Photo by Jim WATSON \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And while there&#8217;s much more to discuss, Walz has come under the most intense scrutiny for embellishing his military record, when in reality he\u00a0<strong>bailed on his National Guard battalion<em>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>instead\u00a0<strong>running off to Congress<\/strong>\u00a0after learning that he would be deployed to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>On May 16th, 2005, [Walz] quit, betraying his country, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging;<\/strong>\u00a0without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war,&#8221; wrote retired Command Sergeants Major Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr in a 2018 letter posted to Facebook.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}