CSM Thomas Behrends (Retired) of The Minnesota National Guard introduction to his official letter (letter in the pics below), you can access it via the facebook link above if you don't believe me.
October 18, 2018
Traitor - a person who betrays a friend, country, principal, etc. I told someone I was thinking of getting a banner made about Tim Walz. They asked, "Are you going to make it yellow?" Last summer, as I stood over the grave of Staff Sergeant Greg Gorter paying my respects, I was humbled. Humbled by a Patriot, Soldier, and recruiter; who had quit recruiting as it was a non-deployable position so that he could volunteer to go to Iraq with the 1-151st Field Artillery Battalion. Following is a 2004 quote from SSG Gorter in regards to his decision to go from recruiter to Soldier in Iraq: "I wanted to do something different. This is my chance. It's something I feel compelled to do and I don't know how to explain it any more than that. I have vowed to uphold the constitution of the United States against its enemies, foreign and domestic. I felt this was the time for me to do it, because it's probably my last chance. I want to make the world a better place so my kid doesn't have to go through a 9/11." On 9/11, as I lowered the flags to half-staff at the Brewster Veterans Memorial, I gazed at the bronze likeness of Sergeant Kyle Miller, who was killed in action in Iraq on June 29th, 2006 at age 19, while serving with the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion. I wondered what that Patriot thought that day in 2001, a teenager in school. And I wondered what all the other Patriots who had joined the service after 9/11 thought on that day. When they joined, we were at war, which we still are, and getting the call to go is probably going to happen. What if everybody said, sorry I've got better things to do? We are the land of the free, because of the brave. We are not the land of the free, because of those who ran. The citizens of the state of Minnesota deserve to hear this side of the story, not just a slithery politician's version of what he wants people to hear. Sincerely, Thomas Behrends CSM USA Retired
Pictures of his letter from the facebook link above, compare if you don't believe me for whatever silly reason.
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If true, the only thing wrong is that Walz isn't proud of doing it. The Iraq War was an abomination and nobody could without disgrace be associated with it.
@lever2000 I killed nobody in Iraq, helped secure over 200 refugees nightly, my unit helped to rebuild the central Iraqi powerplant, and our Battalion's outpost that we (and previous units) built up into a awesome little fortress repelled ISIS when they invaded after Obama's pullout. It was the closest ISIS got to Baghdad and the failing Iraqi army repelled them from there. I'm very proud of that, alot of lives were saved.
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow But they were good deeds I was involved in. Like I said, I have no shame about my conduct towards Iraqis. I keep in contact with a couple of Iraqi archeologists infact. Used to with a few iranians but decided it was best not to get them into teoubke by associating with me.
What is more important though is, since you are horribly off topic here (you had to change topic again, didn't work for you last time when we discovered you suck at Canadian history), is why you defended British Colonialism by default, which lead to widespread abuse against your own Metis people up to the near present. You came out hard accepting Canadian history, however brutal it was. You did. Didn't phase you one bit. You proudly embraced the horrors. Why is that? Some twisted form of nationalism? You like the British crushing Quebeq during the Canadian Civil War in 1837-38? Why do you hate your own people? I don't understand that. That's not a Goth attitude, or a Anarchist attitude, or a Anti-American. You hate your own people by firmly embracing what the british empire of the time did. Why?
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow No, you established you didn't know much when you couldn't name the year Canada gained independence (1982) or when the British Empire ended (1997), or that Hong Kong was actually a real part of the British Empire with a bunch of british military and police stationed there. I established that I knew it. You just failed.
And I had no unlawful orders to disobey. Again, you are changing the topic to something off topic and imaginary. You do this everytime it gets uncomfortable for you.
Why do you hate your own people? Your French ancestors? Why do you support the empire of your oppressors? You came out so strong and proud of the british colonial past and their policies. Why? What they did was terrible.
