https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qab007BtkDMFormer Minnesota Governor and Navy veteran Jesse Ventura reacts to Sen. JD Vance’s attacks on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, after Vance accused Walz of ducking service in Iraq when he left the National Guard and ran for Congress in 2005.
"I think it's shameful. I think it's shameful that a veteran would attack another veteran. Walz served over twenty years in the National Guard... after twenty years you are eligible to retire at any time you deem necessary."
"They talk about him missing his deployment? Well maybe Mr. Vance should ask the real question: what is the National Guard doing deploying to a foreign country, in a foreign war? Well, let's go into history and figure out how that happened. That happened because George W. Bush and Dick Cheney went into the Iraq War based on lies, no weapons of mass destruction, no ties to Al-Qaeda, nothing with 9/11... and they ran out of bodies. They needed more bodies."
"They couldn't implement the draft, that would be political suicide. So what George W. Bush did was sign an executive order, sending the National Guard into foreign deployment... the National Guard is not for foreign deployment. Their name says what they do. They guard our nation from within. ... I think Vance is doing a disservice to himself, and a disservice to the United States Marine Corps. I know a lot of great Marines, and Marines show respect."
