Democratic Primaries
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primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
David__77
(23,409 posts)...
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)I'd love to see a Tulsi town hall... after 18 long ass years in Afghanistan I'd like the Dems to get back to what Obama campaigned on in 2008.. ENDING ALL THE Fing WARS
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
shanny
(6,709 posts)and I'm all for that
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)If your referring to Obama.. yes, yes he and the party platform did.. not sure what happened after that..
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
shanny
(6,709 posts)but apparently he didn't consider Afghanistan to be such.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Mr. Smith
(65 posts)Enough with US bullying and regime change wars.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Rep. Gabbard handled herself very well IMO.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)*THAT* Tulsi??
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I fell for Assad apologist smears once. She seems to be against costly regime change wars and the US props up their own dictators.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/assad-apologist-tulsi-gabbard-is-not-the-best-person-to-lecture-on-foreign-policy-morality
https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2017/01/the-organization-that-sent-tulsi-gabbard-to-syria/514763/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbard-syrian-dictator-assad-is-not-the-enemy-of-the-united-states
https://www.axios.com/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-al-assad-syria-meeting-cf78d758-4fd0-414c-88e8-d4a87d8991ae.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38774701
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/16/18182114/tulsi-gabbard-2020-president-campaign-explained
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/tulsi-gabbards-foreign-policy-and-the-progressive-left.html
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/tulsi-gabbards-foreign-policy-and-the-progressive-left.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/russia-s-propaganda-machine-discovers-2020-democratic-candidate-tulsi-gabbard-n964261
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2018/12/an-up-and-coming-democrat-whos-tough-on-terror-but-soft-on-russia-and-syria/
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/06/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-al-assad-enemy-1152242
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/26/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-al-assad-syria-democrats
http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/ID/20879/Tulsi-Gabbard-Hires-Russian-Agent-to-Keep-Hawaii-Media-in-Check.aspx
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/tulsi-gabbard-russia/
Is that enough? Because we've still got to talk about her appalling denialism over Assad using chemical weapons, her homophobia and her "endorsements" from the likes of David Duke and Steve Bannon, among others... I trust you're capable enough to google the rest of that yourself.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BannonsLiver
(16,387 posts)Also virulently anti-Obama. It really is amazing she has any support here.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
dsc
(52,162 posts)or only her bad press
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)It seems people easily forgive Joy Reid or Bill Maher I agree on her foreign policy views.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
dsc
(52,162 posts)not for the comments themselves but for the ridiculous lie she told in order to avoid responsibility for them. That said, at least you did come up with examples that are comparable to what she did. I have major problems with what she said in the present because clearly the current issue with LGBT rights is religious exemptions which she presumedly favors given why she said she changed her position on gay rights.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Yosemito
(648 posts)And she met him. None of those things are the same as being anti-war.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)She says he isn't a direct threat and the trip was approved to the best of my knowledge. Nancy Pelosi met with Assad when Bush was his enemy before he became the world's top human rights violator while he was taking in refugees from the Iraq war.
Gabbard said in a press release that the trip was approved by the House Ethics Committee and sponsored by Arab American Community Center for Economic and Social Services (AACCESS-Ohio).[89] The chairman of AACCESS, Bassem Khawam, accompanied Gabbard on the trip, as did Elie Khawam.[90]
Gabbard "reportedly declined to inform House leadership in advance, met with Bashar al-Assad, toured with officials from a Lebanese political party that actively supports Assad, and received funding from an American organization that counts one of those same officials as its executive director."[91] She later paid for the trip with her own money.[92] On February 7, 2017, it was reported that Gabbard failed to comply with House ethics rules, as she had not filed the required disclosure forms by the deadline, but according to her office she complied with House ethics rules by filing her post-trip financial report by the deadline.[92][93] Remaining forms and her itinerary were submitted on February 8, 2017.[94]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard
I wouldn't say she is anti war but anti regime change wars to dictators who haven't directly threatened the US.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided