Iraq War veteran Tulsi Gabbard denounces Trump’s ‘chickenhawk Cabinet’

[CrazyZ]

Iraq War veteran Tulsi Gabbard denounces Trump’s ‘chickenhawk Cabinet’
by Ellie Bufkin
| June 26, 2019 10:23 PM

Tulsi Gabbard took the opportunity to criticize President Trump's Cabinet during one of her answers during the 2020 Democratic debate.


Asked whether she, as president, would re-establish the Iran nuclear deal established by President Barack Obama's administration, the Hawaii congresswoman said, "Let's deal with the situation where we are, where this president and his chickenhawk Cabinet have led us to the brink of war with Iran. I served in the war in Iraq at the height of the war in 2005. A war that took over 4,000 of my brothers and sisters in uniforms lives."

Gabbard further said of her intent to reinstall the deal with improvements, "The American people need to understand this war with Iran would be far more devastating, far more costly than anything that we ever saw in Iraq. It would take many more lives. It would exacerbate the refugee crisis. It wouldn't be just contained within Iran. This would turn into a regional war. This is why it's so important that every one of us, every single American, stand up and say, no war with Iran. We need to get back into the Iran nuclear agreement. And we need to negotiate how we can improve it. It was an imperfect deal."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...gabbard-denounces-trumps-chicken-hawk-cabinet

 

[Pakistansdefender]

Tulsi ?
Is he Indian??

 

[Saddam Hussein]

they're both cunt americans as far as i'm concerned

 

[CrazyZ]

Tulsi Gabbard is a women of Samoan Hindu and White background.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

She openly wants Sunni-Shia civil war in every Muslim country to destroy us, and is a puppet Modi.

 

[CrazyZ]

She openly wants Sunni-Shia civil war in every Muslim country to destroy us, and is a puppet Modi.

She has no chance to win.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

Tulsi Gabbard is a women of Samoan Hindu and White background.

From a Pseudo-Hindu cult, but yes she is a convert and doesn't have any Indian blood.

Her claim to fame is her military service, but she is a fascist through and through, and very anti-Pakistan.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Tulsi Gabbard is a women of Samoan Hindu and White background.

She's not Indian. She just took up Hinduism because her dad was into it.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Tulsi Gabbard
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Tulsi Gabbard ( born April 12, 1981) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district since 2013. Following her election in 2012, she became the first Samoan American and the first Hindu member of the United States Congress.

Gabbard served in a field medical unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard in a combat zone in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and was deployed to Kuwait from 2008 to 2009. She served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2002 to 2004. When she was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives at age 21, Gabbard was the youngest woman to be elected to a U.S. state legislature. Gabbard was a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee until February 28, 2016, when she resigned to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.

Gabbard opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership. She is critical of interventionism in Iraq, Libya, and Syria. Her opposition to removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power by force and her voting and lobbying against LGBT rights during the period up to 2004 have attracted controversy. She has since changed her position concerning LGBT rights and supports abortion rights, Medicare for All and same-sex marriage.

Gabbard was born on April 12, 1981, in Leloaloa, Maoputasi County, on American Samoa's main island of Tutuila.[3] She was the fourth of five children[4] born to Carol (née Porter) and Mike Gabbard. In 1983, when Gabbard was two years old, her family moved to Hawaii. Her father is a member of the Hawaii Senate.[5]

Gabbard was raised in a multicultural and multireligious household. Her father is of Samoan and European ancestry and an active lector at his Catholic church. Her mother, who was born in Decatur, Indiana, is of German descent and a practicing Hindu. Tulsi chose Hinduism as her religion while she was a teenager.[6][4][7]

In January 2017 Gabbard met with President Bashar al-Assad during a trip to Syria and Lebanon. She had reportedly not informed House leadership of her trip in advance.[81][82][83] Gabbard said in a press release that the trip was approved by the House Ethics Committee and paid for by Arab American Community Center for Economic and Social Services (AACCESS-Ohio).[84][85] She later paid for the trip with her own money.[86] 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.[86][87] Remaining forms and her itinerary were submitted on February 8, 2017.[88] Within a week of the meeting, Gabbard relayed the Syrian government's "message to the American people ... There is no difference between 'moderate' rebels and al-Qaeda (al-Nusra) or ISIS".[89]

Days before it began, Gabbard reiterated she was withdrawing from the 2018 World Hindu Congress, expressing concern over a "significant number of Indian partisan politicians [...] playing an important role" at the event. She had earlier written to an organizer of the event to voice concern that it was "becoming a platform for Indian partisan politics."[128] In January 2019 The Intercept published an article claiming Gabbard had links with Hindu nationalist organization Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America, and the Hindu American Foundation.[129] An earlier version of The Intercept's article searched Gabbard's donor list for "names ... of Hindu origin" to "show Gabbard's broad base of support in the Hindu-American community".[129] In an op-ed, Gabbard criticized this as religious bigotry, saying that Christians would not be subject to such scrutiny based on their names. She also condemned religious intolerance in politics, media, and society in general.[130] The Intercept removed the sentence with an apology, saying that it was not intended "to question the motives of those political donors" and apologizing "for any such implication".[129] Gabbard also rebutted claims she is a "Hindu nationalist", calling it "religious bigotry", and writing "My meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India's democratically elected leader, have been highlighted as 'proof' of this and portrayed as somehow being out of the ordinary or somehow suspect, even though President Obama, Secretary Clinton, President Trump and many of my colleagues in Congress have met with and worked with him."[130]

Gabbard's views on Islamic terrorism have distinguished her from the more moderate views of mainstream Democrats. In 2015, she met with authoritarian Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to discuss counterterrorism, two years after he led the August 2013 Rabaa massacre which killed hundreds of civilians.[152][153][135] She has advocated increasing pressure on Pakistan to stop terrorist attacks and expressed "solidarity with India" in reference to the 2016 Uri attack.[154]
Gabbard and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York on September 28, 2014
Gabbard supports a strong US-India relationship. She has repeatedly praised Indian prime minister Narendra Modi,[155][156]She has said that the U.S. decision to deny a visa to Modi over allegations of his involvement in the 2002 Gujarat riots was a "great blunder" as it could have undermined the US-India relationship (which she said was important especially in regard to the war on terrorism, among other reasons) had he used it as an excuse to reject a strong relationship with America.[155]

Gabbard also criticized the arrest of Indian consular officer Devyani Khobragade on charges of visa fraud and perjury.[156] In 2013 she joined some of her colleagues on the House Foreign Affairs Committee in opposing a House resolution that called for "religious freedom and related human rights to be included in the United States-India Strategic Dialogue and for such issues to be raised directly with federal and state Indian government officials". The bill admonished India to protect "the rights and freedoms of religious minorities" and specifically referenced incidents of mass violence against India's Muslim minority that took place under Modi's watch. Gabbard justified her opposition by saying the resolution would weaken the friendship between India and the US and citing the bill's timing as interfering with India's elections, while emphasizing the need for US to stand for religious freedom. She later also said that "there was a lot of misinformation that surrounded the event in 2002."[157][155][158][159]

In an NDTV India interview, she was asked about her 2012 opponent's claim that electing a Hindu to the US Congress was incompatible with the US Constitution. She also responded to accusations that she was close to the Bharatiya Janata Party, denying any such proximity.[160]


Gabbard supports a strong US-Israel relationship. In March 2015, unlike many Democrats, she did not boycott Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the US Congress,[135] saying at the time that relations “must rise above the political fray, as America continues to stand with Israel as her strongest ally.”[81] On July 14, 2015, Gabbard attended the Christians United for Israel(CUFI), a conservative leaning organization.[167]

In January 2017 Gabbard voted against a House resolution condemning the U.N. Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements built on the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank. She said, "While I remain concerned about aspects of the U.N. resolution, I share the Obama administration's reservation about the harmful impact Israeli settlement activity has on the prospects for peace."[81] She criticized Israel's use of live ammunition along the Gaza fence in May 2018.[81]

Personal life
Gabbard's first name comes from Sanskrit. Tulsi is the name for Holy Basil, a plant sacred in Hinduism.[231] Her siblings also have Hindu Sanskrit-origin names.[4]During her childhood Gabbard excelled in martial arts, and was interested in gardening. She is a surfer and an accomplished athlete.[223] In 2002 she was a martial arts instructor.[232] She is a vegetarian and, as a Hindu, follows Gaudiya Vaishnavism,[8] a religious movement founded by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the 16th century. Gabbard describes herself as a karma yogi.[233] She values the Bhagavad Gita as a spiritual guide,[234] and used it when she took the oath of office in 2013.[235][236]

Gabbard has said that she is pleased that her election gives hope to young American Hindus who "can be open about their faith, and even run for office, without fear of being discriminated against or attacked because of their religion".[237]

In 2002 Gabbard married Eduardo Tamayo.[27][238] They divorced in 2006. She cites "the stresses war places on military spouses and families" as a reason for their divorce.[201] In 2015 Gabbard married freelance cinematographer and editor Abraham Williams.[239]

 

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Iraq War veteran Tulsi Gabbard denounces Trump’s ‘chickenhawk Cabinet’
by Ellie Bufkin
| June 26, 2019 10:23 PM

Tulsi Gabbard took the opportunity to criticize President Trump's Cabinet during one of her answers during the 2020 Democratic debate.


Asked whether she, as president, would re-establish the Iran nuclear deal established by President Barack Obama's administration, the Hawaii congresswoman said, "Let's deal with the situation where we are, where this president and his chickenhawk Cabinet have led us to the brink of war with Iran. I served in the war in Iraq at the height of the war in 2005. A war that took over 4,000 of my brothers and sisters in uniforms lives."

Gabbard further said of her intent to reinstall the deal with improvements, "The American people need to understand this war with Iran would be far more devastating, far more costly than anything that we ever saw in Iraq. It would take many more lives. It would exacerbate the refugee crisis. It wouldn't be just contained within Iran. This would turn into a regional war. This is why it's so important that every one of us, every single American, stand up and say, no war with Iran. We need to get back into the Iran nuclear agreement. And we need to negotiate how we can improve it. It was an imperfect deal."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...gabbard-denounces-trumps-chicken-hawk-cabinet

Pro Assadist,pro Hinduvta, pro interventionist yeah an all round character

 

[Nein]

From a Pseudo-Hindu cult, but yes she is a convert and doesn't have any Indian blood.

Her claim to fame is her military service, but she is a fascist through and through, and very anti-Pakistan.

Indeed tulsi is as dangerous as bolton. Mark my words she is a cunt.

 

[maximuswarrior]

She pretends to be anti-war. This is the card she is using to woo her audience. I really don't know how sincere her claims are, but she is making no friends in the deep state circle. She has no chance of winning though. Some progressives who are fed up with their traditional Democratic leadership are supporting her, but that is a very small group of people.

She is a hardcore Hindu as many have pointed out. Also thoroughly anti-Pakistan.

Iraq War veteran Tulsi Gabbard denounces Trump’s ‘chickenhawk Cabinet’
by Ellie Bufkin
| June 26, 2019 10:23 PM

Tulsi Gabbard took the opportunity to criticize President Trump's Cabinet during one of her answers during the 2020 Democratic debate.


Asked whether she, as president, would re-establish the Iran nuclear deal established by President Barack Obama's administration, the Hawaii congresswoman said, "Let's deal with the situation where we are, where this president and his chickenhawk Cabinet have led us to the brink of war with Iran. I served in the war in Iraq at the height of the war in 2005. A war that took over 4,000 of my brothers and sisters in uniforms lives."

Gabbard further said of her intent to reinstall the deal with improvements, "The American people need to understand this war with Iran would be far more devastating, far more costly than anything that we ever saw in Iraq. It would take many more lives. It would exacerbate the refugee crisis. It wouldn't be just contained within Iran. This would turn into a regional war. This is why it's so important that every one of us, every single American, stand up and say, no war with Iran. We need to get back into the Iran nuclear agreement. And we need to negotiate how we can improve it. It was an imperfect deal."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...gabbard-denounces-trumps-chicken-hawk-cabinet

She doesn't give a hoot about Iran. Such people will endorse war once in power. This woman is a shady character. It is very difficult to guage her stance. She has served in US military during the Iraq war as she continuously claims. She claims to have witnessed horrors of war and the usual blah blah. Now she wants to cash in.