On the morning of Friday, March 29, Walberg called into a radio show and repeated very similar, "Hiroshima & Nagasaki" remarks from 4 days earlier in Dundee. This radio call-in occurred about a day before those earlier remarks received any press attention (other than from my blog on March 26). Later on March 29 a Tweet of the video was posted from the handle, @WhitchMI and caught way more people's attention, including that of the press around the world. Then we saw Walberg scramble for some absurd excuses, such as it being a, "metaphor" or blaming the constituent who recorded him. As Walberg made those excuses, he had to know that this other recording was out there, which contains less of anything that any schmuck could misidentify as a metaphor.
Friday, March 29, 2024 – Delaney in the Morning – WTVB, Coldwater, MI
Walberg: “What is the nation of Israel to do? So, I’m disappointed that our administration and Biden oughta be caught between a rock and a hard place, because he’s been trying to play both sides. You can’t do that and win the war. And I – I – I truly think, as I’ve said in several town hall meetings this past week, that the way to end this is to do it as quick as possible.”
“We remember that - that - that the terrible – um, results and the decision made – Uh, on Japan with Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the atomic brom - bomb drop, but it ended the war, much more quickly, saved a lot more lives, even while it cost. Uh, and I think in this case, there has to be an end by an ultimate display of power of Israel over Hamas – Uh, and Iran which is its supporter.”
“Uh, and I would hes – I would say – that – Uh, you’re talking about support coming from other places including potentially Russia – Uh, that – that continue this on. We – we can’t let that happen.”
This unedited video was recorded yesterday by Pat Ulanowicz and I was given permission to share it and use his name. I transcribed the video, and added the captions to the video.
March 25, 2024 - Walberg Invitation-only Town Hall – Dundee, MI
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US Congress Member, Tim Walberg [MI-05]: “President says it, or not, I don’t know how you build a port. He says it’s gonna be all in the water, but once that’s hooked up, that becomes fair game. So, you’re putting our troops in harm’s way. Probably CB’s [Construction Battalions], and others that are gonna be doing that engineering policies. I don’t see how you possibly could say that that isn’t putting our troops in harm’s way in Gaza, where we shouldn’t be. We should be resourcing Israel just like they want to, to kill Hamas on their own.”
Constituent 1: “Mr. Walberg? I asked that question. Uh, the reason I asked is cause I was with a – a gentleman that’s in the US Army – He’s a diver – yesterday, and he said he’s being deployed on April 1st to go into Gaza to build a pier, and they’re going to be protected by the IDF while they’re there. They’re there for a minimum of 90 days and deployed until the project is finished. Why are we spending our money to build a port for them?”
Walberg: “Yeah. Um – [4 second pause] It’s Joe Biden’s reason: We need to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. I don’t think we should. I – I don’t think any of our aid that goes to Israel to support our greatest ally, arguably maybe in the world to defeat Hamas and Iran and Russia, and probably North Korea’s in there, and China too, with them in helping – helping – uh – uh, Hamas. Um, we shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It – it should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick. The same – the same should be in Ukraine. Defeat Putin quick. Instead of 80 percent of our funding for Ukraine being used for humanitarian purposes. It should be 80 percent, a hundred percent to wipe out Russian forces, if that’s what we want to do.”
Constituent 1: “We haven’t fought a real war since the World War 2.”
Walberg: “Well, there’s a lot of people died in wars that were not classified as real wars, but they were real wars for those people.”
Constituent 1: “I mean, we didn’t fight to win.”
Dustin Krasny[Walberg’s staffer/Lenawee County Commissioner]: “We – we are - we got through all the questions, and we’re out of time, but – uh, speaking - [interruption].”
Walberg: “I got two more minutes!”
Krasny: “But speaking of proud veterans – uh, Ken Moore – uh, has a question for you.”
Walberg: “Ken?”
Krasny: “Ken, from Monroe.”
Moore: “Mr. Walberg, my name’s Ken Moore. I’m a Vietnam veteran, a friend of Will Bruck, 31 years in the Army...”
