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Tulsi Has To Explain War Is Bad To Comfy Overpaid Hacks (Original Post) JonLP24 Feb 2019 OP
Gabbard replies very well to McCain. David__77 Feb 2019 #1
K&R.. disillusioned73 Feb 2019 #2
fwiw he campaigned on ending stupid wars shanny Feb 2019 #3
Who's "he"..?? disillusioned73 Feb 2019 #4
Obama shanny Feb 2019 #5
+1000 JonLP24 Feb 2019 #6
She sounds pretty damned reasonable in her foreign policy positions. Mr. Smith Feb 2019 #7
Thanks JonLP24! Devil Child Feb 2019 #8
The same Tulsi cheerleading Russian intervention in Syria to prop up Assad? Blue_Tires Mar 2019 #9
Do you have a link? JonLP24 Mar 2019 #10
A link? How many do you want? Blue_Tires Mar 2019 #19
+10000 BannonsLiver Mar 2019 #17
does she blame LGBT conspiracies for them too dsc Mar 2019 #11
That doesn't come up in the interview JonLP24 Mar 2019 #12
Actually I think Reid should have been fired dsc Mar 2019 #13
That is a fair point JonLP24 Mar 2019 #14
+1000 BannonsLiver Mar 2019 #18
She denied Assad gassed his own people Yosemito Mar 2019 #15
She claimed he did in the interview JonLP24 Mar 2019 #16
 

David__77

(23,409 posts)
1. Gabbard replies very well to McCain.
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 10:18 AM
Feb 2019

...

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disillusioned73

(2,872 posts)
2. K&R..
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 10:22 AM
Feb 2019

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

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shanny

(6,709 posts)
3. fwiw he campaigned on ending stupid wars
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 10:29 AM
Feb 2019

and I'm all for that

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disillusioned73

(2,872 posts)
4. Who's "he"..??
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 10:32 AM
Feb 2019

If your referring to Obama.. yes, yes he and the party platform did.. not sure what happened after that..

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shanny

(6,709 posts)
5. Obama
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 10:34 AM
Feb 2019

but apparently he didn't consider Afghanistan to be such.

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Mr. Smith

(65 posts)
7. She sounds pretty damned reasonable in her foreign policy positions.
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 12:53 PM
Feb 2019

Enough with US bullying and regime change wars.

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Devil Child

(2,728 posts)
8. Thanks JonLP24!
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 03:48 PM
Feb 2019

Rep. Gabbard handled herself very well IMO.

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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
9. The same Tulsi cheerleading Russian intervention in Syria to prop up Assad?
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 03:36 PM
Mar 2019

*THAT* Tulsi??

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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
10. Do you have a link?
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 08:08 AM
Mar 2019

I fell for Assad apologist smears once. She seems to be against costly regime change wars and the US props up their own dictators.

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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
19. A link? How many do you want?
Mon Mar 4, 2019, 10:35 AM
Mar 2019
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/01/tulsi-gabbards-record-syria-worse-think

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.
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BannonsLiver

(16,387 posts)
17. +10000
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 03:17 PM
Mar 2019

Also virulently anti-Obama. It really is amazing she has any support here.

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dsc

(52,162 posts)
11. does she blame LGBT conspiracies for them too
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 08:58 AM
Mar 2019

or only her bad press

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JonLP24

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12. That doesn't come up in the interview
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 09:00 AM
Mar 2019

It seems people easily forgive Joy Reid or Bill Maher I agree on her foreign policy views.

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dsc

(52,162 posts)
13. Actually I think Reid should have been fired
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 09:04 AM
Mar 2019

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.

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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
14. That is a fair point
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 09:05 AM
Mar 2019
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Yosemito

(648 posts)
15. She denied Assad gassed his own people
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 09:19 AM
Mar 2019

And she met him. None of those things are the same as being anti-war.

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JonLP24

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16. She claimed he did in the interview
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 09:34 AM
Mar 2019

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.

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