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Gabbard blasts Iran strike: 'Trump's actions are an act of war'
The Hill ^ | 01/03/20 | Tal Axelrod

Posted on 01/04/2020 5:41:57 PM PST by McGruff

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) ripped President Trump for approving an airstrike against Iran’s top general, calling the attack "an act of war."

“Make no mistake: Trump’s actions are an act of war,” Gabbard, a presidential candidate, said in an email to supporters. “Taken without any authorization or declaration of war from Congress, seriously escalating this tit for tat conflict, pushing us deeper into an endless quagmire and dangerously undermining our national security.”

Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran, has hinged much of her White House bid on ending America’s military involvements abroad and withdrawing troops from the Middle East.

“We need to get out of Iraq and Syria now. That is the only way that we're going to prevent ourselves from being dragged into this quagmire, deeper and deeper into a war with Iran,” the Hawaii Democrat tweeted Friday.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii; War on Terror
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To: centurion316

Sacking an embassy and holding Americans hostage for 444 days isn’t an “act of war”?

Bombing an embassy killing Americans isn’t an “act of war”?

Bombing military barracks, killing 241 Marines isn’t an “act of war”?

Bombing another military barracks (Khobar Towers) killing 19 American military personnel isn’t an “act of war”?

Providing material support (financing, training, and weapons) to insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq killing over 1,100 American troops isn’t an “act of war”?

IMO spreading the general to the four points of the compass is 40 years overdue.


81 posted on 01/04/2020 8:34:33 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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To: McGruff

Body good...
Mouth.....BAD
STFU!
Tulsi/SOCIALIST cannot help herself...
T....D.....S!


82 posted on 01/04/2020 8:37:19 PM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: silverleaf

“She may be an Iraq war vet but obviously did not suffer from the Iranian ied’s that killed 608 American troops”

She was a “Fobbit” who never went outside the wire.


83 posted on 01/04/2020 8:43:34 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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To: McGruff

“And that gray streak in her hair is as fake as she is.”

She could dress up as “The Bride of Frankenstein” for Halloween.


84 posted on 01/04/2020 8:47:17 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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To: Tejas Rob
Wait, isn’t she in the National Guard? How the hell does she get away with saying this about her commander in chief?

National Guardsman and Reservists, when not on active or inactive duty, have the same rights as any other citizen. This includes making idiotic political statements.

85 posted on 01/04/2020 8:54:56 PM PST by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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To: McGruff

Good-bye, Tulsi, we hardly knew you.


86 posted on 01/04/2020 9:00:49 PM PST by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: McGruff

Piss Off Your Fanbase=Not A Smart Political Move


87 posted on 01/04/2020 9:20:27 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

>>National Guardsman and Reservists, when not on active or inactive duty, have the same rights as any other citizen. This includes making idiotic political statements<<

Here’s where a Utah National Guardsman was tossed out for telling a chaplian he was against gay marriage. There are other examples.

https://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2013/07/11/airman-punished-for-objecting-to-gay-marriage-in-military-chapel-n1638648


88 posted on 01/04/2020 10:03:36 PM PST by Tejas Rob
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To: McGruff

Bupid stitch.


89 posted on 01/04/2020 10:07:48 PM PST by paintriot (Die with your boots on)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
As always, Tulsi the Cuckservatives' Wet Dream flutters in the breezes.
"...We send a very powerful message to the Iranian government that we will not stand by as the American embassy is attacked -- which is an act of war -- and we will not stand by as plans are being made to attack and kill American soldiers."
Dershowitz: Trump Had Even More Legal Justification Eliminating Soleimani than Obama Had with Osama Bin Laden

90 posted on 01/04/2020 11:54:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: McGruff

Funny, Gabbard was perfectly happy about this kind of thing when Obama was doing it, voting for its continuation not 6 months before Trump was elected.


91 posted on 01/05/2020 12:49:49 AM PST by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

“We need to get out of Iraq and Syria now.”

But not Afghanistan, interestingly”

My Nephew Marine Capt.(Reserve’s) whom did two tours one in Afghanistan in 2016 was pissed at PDT when a while back he was reportedly negotiating with the Taliban. I guess that was the prevailing thought with the he men / women on the ground. I asked him if he was prepared to be there forever, big difference between Japan, Germany and Afghanistan. He said (in a bit more detail) “for now yes’


92 posted on 01/05/2020 3:12:42 AM PST by DAC21 ( and Naflet)
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To: LeoWindhorse

“Tulsi Gabbard is my congresswoman. I am her constituent. She does not speak for me”

In theory she won’t be your Congresswoman in eleven months. She announced last October she would not “seek” reelection as she campaigned for President. I suspect there is wiggle room in that statement. At her heart she is a word weasel politician.


93 posted on 01/05/2020 3:21:02 AM PST by DAC21 ( and Naflet)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

All correct. For which, Mr. Obama provided them with over 1 billion dollars, in small nonsequential bills. The Iranians were confused why Trump had not yet sent the next installment. Now, their confusion is over.


94 posted on 01/05/2020 6:05:11 AM PST by centurion316 (.)
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To: Bernard

“The article also said one of her duties was to review daily injury/casualty mists to see if anybody from her unit was on the list.”

That tells me she worked in S1, or was THE S1 (Adjutant) for her unit.... In other words she was a Fobbit.


95 posted on 01/05/2020 7:10:03 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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To: centurion316

That it is.

As far as the money goes, the 1.8 billion is only what we know about. Personally I think it is a whole lot more that got laundered through other channels.


96 posted on 01/05/2020 7:21:12 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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To: TigersEye

Gabbard blasts Iran strike: ‘Trump’s actions are an act of war’

“Trump,” not “President Trump?”

Disrepectful. I saw her on Fox. She just blew it!


97 posted on 01/05/2020 7:40:54 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will.)
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To: DAC21

Unfortunately the candidate running for her office is even worse, most likely.


98 posted on 01/05/2020 11:17:57 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

She is no soldier. She is a politician who sometimes poses as a soldier. Total phony


99 posted on 01/05/2020 11:19:16 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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