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Congressman Walsh attacks rival Duckworth on war record
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| Last Edited | COSDem Jul 03, 2012 03:23pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, July 3, 2012 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Attacking your opponent’s war record isn’t usually a winning recipe, but Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) went for it at a town hall event that is making waves across the Internet.
The Republican incumbent accused Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran who lost both her legs in a helicopter crash, of talking too much about her military service. Duckworth, a former helicopter pilot should follow in Vietnam veteran Sen. John McCain’s footsteps he said.
“Understand something about John McCain,” Walsh said at the town hall, first reported by the liberal site Think Progress. “His political advisers, day after day, had to take him and almost throw him against a wall and hit him against the head and say, ‘Senator, you have to let people know you served!”
“Now I’m running against a woman who, my God, that’s all she talks about,” he said. “Our true heroes, the men and women who served us, it’s the last thing they talk about.
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