For all the hoopla surrounding Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst’s military service, one must remember that her Democratic predecessor, Tom Harkin, lied about his own military career.

Decades ago, in 1979, then-Congressman Harkin said during a round-table discussion that he “spent five years as a Navy pilot, starting in November of 1962” and that “one year was in Vietnam.”

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