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Both Vance and Walz Experience Moral Blindness on “Serving” in Iraq

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2024
The best thing to do is to stay out of the military so that you are never put in a position where you are faced with committing an immoral act.
– Laurence M. Vance, “Soldiers Do Have a Choice” [2024]

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August 9, 2024
Both Vance and Walz Experience Moral Blindness on “Serving” in Iraq
Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance is taking Democrat vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz to task for his military “service” with respect to the 2003-2011 U.S. war on Iraq. He says that Walz ended his 24 years in the National Guard early to avoid being deployed to Iraq. For his part, Vance, who was in the Marine Corps for four years, “served” a year in …
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