about how much she doesn't understand the situation. Because saying we should never have gone in is apparently the same as saying now that we want to leave we should just throw everything up in the air and run out from underneath it.

that she is being criticized only because she disagreed with the original deployment is very disingenuous, especially after it has been countered repeatedly...

She didn't even consider the repercussions of an abrupt pull-out. until countless twitter users called her on it.

Most of us are not ok with a massacre of our allies nor policy made on the fly to appease Erdogan, who has already announced intent to slaughter the Kurds (and get Saudi's MBS out of the deep shit he is in).

I guess she didn't want to offend her buddies, including Assad (and Trump).

buh-bye

still put their necks out to ally with us. Clearly nearly everyone on this thread is more informed on their issues and our history with them than you.

It is YOU who needs some education along with your beloved Tulsi Gabbard.

Understandable given the insightful criticism she received.

It came before the other one.

on her first tweet. They were telling her about the Kurds.. no wonder she woke up with this.

Link to tweet

This is one of many to Gabbard @6:16am..

Link to tweet

this?

Tulsi Gabbard
✔
@TulsiGabbard
· 12h
The hysterical reaction to the decision to withdraw troops from Syria is astonishing & shows just how attached to war some are. Lindsey Graham & others want us to continue our regime change war in Syria and to go to war with Iran. That’s why they’re so upset.

or was there another before that one?

thanks in advance

its all disjointed (at least in my brain atm! LOLOL)

making it looked like the 2nd tweet was first and she woke up to pushback about not mentioning the Kurds so he did a cleanup tweet

that is the exact opposite of what happened

Gabbard in her FIRST tweet said EXACTLY what you are saying she got hammered for NOT saying

her FIRST tweet DID mention the Kurds






THIS was her first tweet and it immediately mentioned the Kurds

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

I can tell time, lol

Are you going to dispute Twitter's own site? Do you think it was hacked and the timestamps switched? LOLOLOL



the first tweet by Gabbard, mentioning the Kurds straightaway was 15 and a half hours before the 2nd tweet, the one that you claimed generated all this 'pushback'

here is your post saying exactly that

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211579006#post14



Henry @Fdr1942 in that reply is disingenuously trying to imply that Gabbard should be mentioning the Kurds. The one problem is that she ALREADY did, 15 plus hours earlier



you even went further and used a tweet to Barbara Lee, that had nothing to do with Gabbard, and claimed that was pushback to Gabbard

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11579080



here is the tweet link itself showing that that was a Barbara Lee tweet, NOTHING to do with Gabbard

Link to tweet

Stop putting words in my mouth.

a reply to Barbara Lee. You're just so busy trying to harass me you can't remember what was posted.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11579185

to fob off as Tulsi getting pushback about not mentioning the Kurds, when she already HAD mentioned them, 15 and half hours earlier

there is no mention of Barbara Lee in either one by you

no Barabara Lee mention here



https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11579185




no Barbara Lee mention here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211579006#post3




And I am not at all harassing you, I am pointing out major inconsistencies in your postings and inferences in regards to those postings.

I also am not the one who goes into threads and posts the same exact reply (often with a tweet involved) over and over and over, up and down the thread stream.

Nope, that sure isn't me

is really making the rounds.

Thank gawd she got the deserved backlash she got from her initial post, but your OP is white-washing her response which was as follows:

Link to tweet

from her orginal tweet she woke up.

Link to tweet

The tweet in this OP came before the other one you posted.

she opened herself up rightly to a whole slew of pushbacks.

Link to tweet

The ones who have been advocating for expanding the US military presence in Syria for years now and went bananas at the thought of pulling troops out instead.

Graham, in particular, laid out his "vision" for Syria - which involved 10,000 US troops on the ground there - during his 2016 campaign (and constantly berated Obama for not "projecting strength" by not doing so).

for scorn tweeting what she did.. no matter who she was calling "hysterical".

Just like Bolton and the other neocons. That is the primary reason for his objection to pulling out troops from Syria. You will note that he went right back to being Trump's #1 fan - raving about how important it is that we vote for the border wall. Gabbard was rightly annoyed by the comments from Graham and the other neocons and responded accordingly. She reiterated in the very next tweet the point she had made in the previous tweet - that withdrawing the troops needed to be done in a coherent and coordinated fashion, unlike what Trump was doing - but she also stayed true to her strong belief that (contrary to the views of Graham and others) the troops should indeed be withdrawn.

Assad.. claiming he didn't gas his own people so I can see why there are those who don't trust her on foreign policy.

Tulsi Gabbard reveals she met Assad in Syria, without informing top Democrats

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Gabbard framed her sit-down meeting with Assad as part of a necessary dialogue in order to resolve the Syrian conflict. The war began after a series of pro-democracy protests in March 2011 were swiftly and brutally put down by the Assad regime. The war has since devolved into a brutal and complex war, fuelled by sectarian, political and international divisions.

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Gabbard said her trip to the region was born from “the suffering of the Syrian people that has been weighing heavily on my heart.”

But in 2015, she was one of just 47 Democrats who sided with Republicans and backed a GOP-sponsored measure that would essentially block Syrian and Iraqi refugees from resettling in the US. Gabbard was also a vocal critic of the Obama administration – which repeatedly called for Assad to step down – for arming Syrian rebel groups.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/26/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-al-assad-syria-democrats

This is her clean-up Tweet. Well done on the pushback.

She devolved. Thanks for pointing that out. No way I would ever think that was the case. A true statement of her character.

1. She called out Trump for his awful handling of the troop withdrawal - a withdrawal that she had advocated for in a sensible and coordinated fashion - as opposed to the horrible Trump approach.

2. Then she called out Graham and the neocons for going bananas at the idea of any troop withdrawal and for advocating for keeping troops there indefinitely - which she strongly opposes.

I really think Gabbard responded to this correctly.

1. She supported withdrawing troops from Syria but said it was handled completely the wrong way by Trump.

2. She responded forcefully to the neocons who go bananas any time troop withdrawals anywhere are mentioned.

I was impressed with the way she both attacked Trump for his gross incompetence while staying true to her belief that we have to figure out a way to withdraw our troops from Syria.

consulting them is fine. But, someone as qualified and accomplished as Tulsi certainly doesn't need to subject herself to more man-splaining.

not effective.

Gabbard sticks up for Assad who brutally put down the pro-democracy protests.

Gabbard also voted with the gop to block Syrian and Iraqi refugees from resettling in the US after she stated she cared about them so much.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/26/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-al-assad-syria-democrats

on the Senator thing. I hope Mazie lives a long long time!

It's just that I've thought of the same thing.. it occurred to me when I found out Mazie was healing from her surgery. thank Goodness she's a strong woman!

I love my Senator Schatz, too!

and are you from Boston?

be a San Diegan for 15 years.

Down there for work all the time. There's a lot to like about San Diego.

Syria, without consulting his generals or congress, was a terrible mistake?