Tulsi Gabbard to Take on Iran in New Hampshire
Panel Discussion includes Dennis Kucinich
U.S Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) will discuss Iran in a panel discussion to be held Tuesday, January 14th, in Manchester, New Hampshire. The event, which features former Ohio Congressman Denis Kucinich and will be moderated by Harvard Professor Larry Lessig, will be held at the Manchester Community College at 6–8pm Eastern Time.
A candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination, Gabbard tweeted an attack on President Trump and his Iranian policy on Sunday:
Trump disgraces our military by using our men & women in uniform as mercenaries serving the interests of multinational corps (e.g Exxon) & foreign countries (e.g Saudis). We must stand side by side — no matter our political party — to end this travesty.
Tulsi Gabbard was criticized for being Trump-friendly after his 2016 win when she met with he president-elect at his Trump Tower home. Gabbard and Trump shared common ground on the issue of terminating the United States’ military intervention in Syria.
Gabbard briefly was touted as a potential member of Trump’s cabinet, either as Secretary of Defense of Ambassador to the UN.
Feud with Hillary Clinton
The bad blood between Tulsi Gabbard and Hillary Clinton was the glue that likely bonded the unlikely pair after the general election.
In 2016, Gabbard quit her position as Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee to protest what she claimed was the DNC’s bias towards Hillary Clinton, an accusation that was validated by the subsequent Wikileaks exposure of hacked DNC emails. Gabbard was a supporter of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who emerged as Clinton’s main opponent, and now is one of her opponents for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
Calling her a “favorite of the Russians,” Hillary Clinton denounced Gabbard as a potential cat’s paw of the Russian government and the Republican Party, claiming that she is being helped by the Russians and the GOP wants to enlist her as a third party candidate to hurt the Democrats.
Gabbard, who claims that she will not run as a third party candidate, denounced Clinton as the “queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party.”
Considering Clinton’s attack to be libelous, her lawyers sent a letter demanding she retract her remarks to the former Secretary of State.
President Trump came to Gabbard’s defense, countering Clinton’s charges by saying, “She’s not a Russian agent.”
“A Soldier’s Heart”
Tulsi Gabbard’s pleasant smile adorns billboards in Manchester, the state’s largest city, while lawn signs touting her candidacy are prominent on the Queen City’s West Side. They are particularly abundant near Saint Anselm College, the home of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, which pays a key role in the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire presidential primary.
The campaign slogan featured on her billboard signs is “A Soldier’s Heart.”
Saint Anselm College hosts presidential candidate debates and get-togethers. Apparently, Tulsi is popular among the members of the faculty and students that go to Saint A’s, which is a Catholic college.
A veteran who has served in Iraq, Gabbard is a major in Hawaii’s Army National Guard. She as highly critical of President Trump for maintaining the Obama’s administration’s military policy in the Syria and the Middle East and for expanding military intervention. Now a tough critic of Trump’s Syrian policy, Gabbard claims that Trump’s motive is to occupy territory to protect the interests of Western oil companies and has had the effect of turning U.S. troops into mercenaries.
Tulsi Gabbard believes that President Donald’s Trump’s foreign policy shows that “essentially he is a Napoleon or a king.”
She was the only Democrat in the U.S House of Representatives to abstain in the votes on the two articles of impeachment, and one of only four House Democrats in the House who didn’t wholly support impeaching President Trump. While she believed “ President Trump is guilty of wrongdoing, Gabbard was wary of Vice President Mike Pence taking over the Oval Office. She also was dismayed by the impeachment process.
Congresswoman Gabbard explained,
I also could not in good conscience vote for impeachment because removal of a sitting president must not be the culmination of a partisan process, fueled by tribal animosities that have so gravely divided our country.
