Strengths:
Tulsi Gabbard, a veteran of the Iraq War who serves on the US Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees, has been a democratic representative for Hawaii since 2013 and has worked on important issues such as the promotion of clean energy, the problem of sexual assault in the military, and the restoration of the Glass-Steagall Act. Tulsi Gabbard was also the vice-presidential pick of Senator Bernie Sanders on the California general election ballot.
In February, she was skewered for having the audacity to visit Syria and speak with its people and—wait for it—briefly converse with President Bashar al-Assad.
Gabbard has recently come in for another storm of bipartisan criticism following her “bizarre” (
according to The Washington Post) response to the chemical attack in Syria and Trump’s subsequent cruise missile dog-wag. Here’s the full statement she issued in the wake of the illegal Tomahawk blitz on a Syrian airfield:
It angers and saddens me that President Trump has taken the advice of war hawks and escalated our illegal regime change war to overthrow the Syrian government. This escalation is short-sighted and will lead to more dead civilians, more refugees, the strengthening of al-Qaeda and other terrorists, and a possible nuclear war between the United States and Russia.
This administration has acted recklessly without care or consideration of the dire consequences of the United States attack on Syria without waiting for the collection of evidence from the scene of the chemical poisoning. If President Assad is indeed guilty of this horrible chemical attack on innocent civilians, I will be the first to call for his prosecution and execution by the International Criminal Court. However, because of our attack on Syria, this investigation may now not even be possible. And without such evidence, a successful prosecution will be much harder.
Then there’s this tweet from April 10: “Those who’ve declared Trump a habitual liar now vilify those refusing to blindly follow him into another regime change war. Hypocrisy.”
She served in Iraq, meaning unlike the neoconservative tapeworms who relish sending other people’s children overseas to kill and die, she knows what war is like and thus views it as something to be averted rather than embraced. Hence her opposition to Trump’s reckless militarism, which is an existential threat to the entire world. Gabbard is not liable to back down on that point. But she’s facing a perpetual headwind now, because Washington, or rather the weapons manufacturers and Israel-firsters helping to manage Washington, won’t brook this sort of dissent. It has to be stamped out, crushed. Gabbard is on their hit list.
Weaknesses: None.Cant even say she's ugly....but she is not playing ''the game'' she is spitting the truth from the heart. That type of thing will get her in trouble.