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Tim Walz’s Former Squadmate: If He’d Gone to Iraq, He’d Have Been ‘Hiding Under a Desk’ – Video

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Command Sgt. Maj. Tom Behrends took the place of now-Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on a deployment to Iraq in 2005 after Walz abruptly retired.

Command Sgt. Maj. Tom Behrends took the place of now-Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on a deployment to Iraq in 2005 after Walz abruptly retired.

Anyone who claims to understand the forces at work in modern U.S. politics has almost certainly exaggerated.

For instance, on July 13, former President Donald Trump responded to a failed assassination attempt with a display of defiant courage. Afterward, only the most deranged Trump haters could deny that they had witnessed what all human beings from the beginning of time have recognized as rare bravery.

Then, little more than three weeks later, Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris chose as her running mate a man who, according to a former command sergeant major and fellow NCO in the Minnesota Army National Guard, would “still be hiding under his desk” had he not skipped out on deployment to Iraq nearly two decades ago.

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