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In reply to the discussion: While we're cleaning house, it's time for Tulsi Gabbard to resign. [View all]Cha
(297,196 posts)16. From Vox.. Gabbard is suppose to be the "peace candidate"..
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Seems to favor putin over President Obama..
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In January 2017, she traveled to Syria and met with Assad personally, blindsiding the Democratic leadership in Congress. After returning to the US, she went on CNN and parroted the regimes line that there was no difference between the mainstream anti-Assad rebels and ISIS.
By this point, Democratic leadership considered her disloyal. Rep. Gabbard loses me and, I think, many others when she claims to support peaceful values and policies that protect civilians and still engages with and even defends a murderous dictator, Bashar al-Assad, Loren DeJonge Schulman, a senior NSC official in the Obama administration, told me. There is no excuse for this. The hypocrisy of these actions is astonishing. One can be antiwar without being pro-murderous dictator, a fact that seems obvious.
When Assads forces used chemical weapons against Syrian civilians in April 2017, Gabbard said she was skeptical that Assad was responsible, aligning herself with conspiracy theorists against both US intelligence and the overwhelming majority of independent experts.
By this point, Democratic leadership considered her disloyal. Rep. Gabbard loses me and, I think, many others when she claims to support peaceful values and policies that protect civilians and still engages with and even defends a murderous dictator, Bashar al-Assad, Loren DeJonge Schulman, a senior NSC official in the Obama administration, told me. There is no excuse for this. The hypocrisy of these actions is astonishing. One can be antiwar without being pro-murderous dictator, a fact that seems obvious.
When Assads forces used chemical weapons against Syrian civilians in April 2017, Gabbard said she was skeptical that Assad was responsible, aligning herself with conspiracy theorists against both US intelligence and the overwhelming majority of independent experts.
Mahalo for this, Oilem.. one of the best comprehensive articles on Gabbard I've seen. If not the best.
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While we're cleaning house, it's time for Tulsi Gabbard to resign. [View all]
OilemFirchen
Feb 2019
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Question: when did she change her position? And when did she acknowledge her change?
brooklynite
Feb 2019
#17
As recently as 2013 she refused to help the LGBT caucus pass Hawaii's marriage equality law
pnwmom
Feb 2019
#40