Posted on 10/19/2019 6:37:20 AM PDT by McGruff
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard resigned her post as a vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee today, allowing her to formally endorse Bernie Sanders for president.
Gabbard made the announcement on the NBC political talk show "Meet the Press."
"As a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, I'm required to remain neutral in Democratic primaries, but I cannot remain neutral any longer," Gabbard laterexplained in a video statement. "The stakes are just too high."
Gabbard cited her experience as a veteran of two military deployments in arguing that Sanders has the judgment necessary to make sound military decisions.
"We need a commander in chief who has foresight, who exercises good judgment, and who understands the need for a robust foreign policy which defends the safety andsecurity of the American people and who will not waste precious lives and money on interventionist wars of regime change," Gabbard said. "Such counterproductive warsundermine our national security and economic prosperity."
Gabbard's statements were as much an indictment of Democratic front-runner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as an endorsement of Sanders, a senator fromVermont.
In fact, Gabbard's announcement coincided with the publication of a New York Times investigative series focusing on Clinton's involvement in the 2011 military intervention inLibya, an action that led to the toppling of leader Muammar Gaddafi and the continued destabilization of the country.
Gabbard said this evening the timing of her announcement was a "complete coincidence" with respect to the Times stories. However, she noted that Clinton's advocacy formilitary intervention in Libya was further example of the former secretary of state's flawed judgment in matters of international crisis.
"You can tell what a person will do in the future based on what they've done in the past," Gabbard stated in an email to the Star-Advertiser. "Hillary Clinton was not only the leading Democratic voice for the war in Iraq, she was the head cheerleader and architect of the war to overthrow the Libyan government of Gaddafi which has resulted inchaos, a failed state, and a stronghold for ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Hillary was and continues to be the loudest voice for the disastrous war to overthrow the Syrian government ofAssad.
"These wars of regime change have cost trillions of dollars, thousands of American lives, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of children, women, and men in the MiddleEast," Gabbard continued. "And Al-Qaeda and ISIS are stronger than ever."
Gabbard reiterated her belief that Sanders would have avoided such costly decisions.
"This is precisely why we need a Commander in Chief who has sound judgment and foresight -- the ability to look ahead to the potential consequences of our actions beforewe take those actions," Gabbard said. "How might other actors in the region react to our actions? What will we then do in response? And you continue to look down the line soyou can anticipate any unintended consequences and base a decision on that foresight. This is what is called a military mindset -- a mindset that is absolutely critical in acommander-in-chief."
Shortly after Gabbard's announcement on "Meet the Press," the Sanders camp expressed appreciation on Sanders' Twitter account: "As a veteran of the Iraq War, Rep.@TulsiGabbard understands the cost of war. I am honored to have her endorsement."
So she IS a commie! My God, is there anyone in that party who isn’t?
Does this 2016 historical event inform Hillary that Tulsi can be nothing but a Russian agent now? I realize this is the same timeframe that Hillary, Lil’ Debbie, and Water Buffalo Donna were taking turns politically sodomizing Bernie in the 2016 primaries.
She’s not conservative.
Who is saying that? She is about as leftwing as they get, her politics render her non-viable politically.
That being said, she is an impressive fighter, an actual warrior woman, and she smacked the stinking piss out of Hillary, and that was BUUU-TEEE-FULL!
We’re not going to be voting for this lady ever, but you know what? I respect Tulsi as someone who stood up to Evil. Let’s hope she continues to do that.
Agreed, but good luck with that. There were FReepers yesterday calling for her to be in President Trumps administration, no shit, on the premiere conservative web forum, sick f@cks.
She now joins Donald Trump as high-profile figures who are exposing the fact that the real divide in American politics isn’t Democrat vs. Republican ... it’s Globalist vs. Nationalist.
“Stood up to evil”!? She’s standing next to evil right there
j. Beila is verbally smacking Tarlov around on FnF about the Gabbard Hillary dust up. Good stuff.
My advice is to assume that at least 50% of what you read from anyone using a fake name on the internet is little more than the ranting of a nitwit.
No kidding. She’s a dyed in the wool Redski.
Yes, she is.
Gotta start somewhere though, and that is exactly what she did the other day.
A whole bunch of Repubic “men” should learn from her example.
So she’s gone from leftist to uber-leftist.
An avowed socialist, gg, Gabi!!! /s
All this “veteran” crap that the media throws around makes me sick. Just because you’re a veteran doesn’t mean squat. Now a combat veteran is a different story. My son is a combat veteran and has the badge and and service from 2003 in Iraq to show for it. Plus a lot of stories and pictures that makes me proud and thankful that he’s back without a scratch. So Tulsi,go ahead and use the veteran card all you want but some of us have got your number.
I thought Lady Beila wasnt on FOX any more doe some reason. Could you part with a summary of said beatdown for those of us less fortunate?
In a word, no.
So she’s a communist. A communist who knows that hillary is corrupt, but a communist still.
The hillary slime machine will be aiming at her.
It’s all gaslighting theater. It wouldn’t surprise me if Tulsi is setting up a 3rd party run to pull anti-establishment votes away from Trump to the benefit of the Dem nom.
Bingo. I think that’s exactly what’s going on.
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