{"id":196667,"date":"2019-10-22T07:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T07:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196667"},"modified":"2019-10-24T07:08:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T07:08:46","slug":"tulsi-nails-it-on-national-tv-us-regime-change-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196667","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Nails it on National TV\u2026 US Regime-Change Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Finian Cunningham \u2013 Strategic Culture Oct 18, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">No wonder Democratic Party bosses and mainstream media are trying to bury presidential contender Tulsi Gabbard. She is the only candidate, perhaps the only politician in the US, who is telling the American public exactly what they need to know about what their government and military are really up to: fighting illegal regime-change wars, and to boot, sponsoring terrorists for that purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It didn\u2019t come much clearer nor more explicit than when Gabbard fired up the Democratic TV debate this week. It was billed as the biggest televised presidential debate ever, and the Hawaii Representative\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f7-9qF0sMyk\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>told<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0some prime-time home-truths to the nation:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tulsi Gabbard calls The New York Times and CNN \u2014 the hosts of the debate \u2014 &quot;completely despicable&quot; for alleging she is a Russian asset and Assad apologist. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0pzpA4nvRo\">pic.twitter.com\/0pzpA4nvRo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Axios (@axios) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axios\/status\/1184277654922547200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cDonald Trump has blood of the Kurds on his hands, but so do many of the politicians in our country from both parties who have supported this ongoing regime-change war in Syria that started in 2011\u2026 along with many in the mainstream media who have been championing and cheer-leading this regime-change war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The 38-year-old military veteran went on to denounce how the US has sponsored Al Qaeda terrorists for its objective of overthrowing the government in Damascus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It was a remarkably damning assessment of US policy in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East. And it was by no means the first time that Gabbard has leveled with the American people on the brutality and criminality of Washington\u2019s so-called \u201cinterventions\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The other 11 Democratic candidates on the stage during the TV debate looked agog after Gabbard\u2019s devastating and calmly delivered statement. All the others have proffered the false narrative that US forces are in Syria to \u201cfight terrorism\u201d. They deplore Trump\u2019s announcement last week to pull back US troops from northeast Syria because, they say, it will undermine the fight against Islamic State (IS or ISIS) and other Al Qaeda affiliates. They also condemn Trump for \u201cbetraying Kurdish allies\u201d by his partial troop withdrawal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">President Donald Trump talks about \u201cending endless wars\u201d and \u201cbringing our troops home\u201d. But he still premises his views on a credulous belief that the US under his watch \u201cdefeated ISIS 100 per cent\u201d. In that way, he essentially shares the same corny view as the Democrats and media that America is a force for good, that it is the \u201cgood guys wearing white hats riding into the sunset\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On the other hand, Gabbard stands alone in telling the American people the plain and awful truth. US policy is the fundamental problem. Ending its regime-change war in Syria and elsewhere and ending its diabolical collusion with terror groups is the way to bring peace to the Middle East and to spare ordinary Americans from the economic disaster of spiraling war debts. American citizens need to know the truth about the horror their government, military, media and politicians have inflicted not just on countries in the Middle East, but also from the horrendous boomerang consequences of this criminal policy on the lives and livelihoods of ordinary Americans, including millions of veterans destroyed by injuries, trauma, suicide, and drug abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Following the TV debate this week, it seems that Gabbard won the popular vote with her truth-telling. A major\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/\">online poll<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0by the Drudge Report found that she stole a march on all the other candidates, winning approval from nearly 40 per cent of voters. Top ticket candidates Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden were trailing behind with 7 per cent or less.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Gabbard has clearly struck a deep chord with the US public in her honest depiction of American wars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Despite her shattering expos\u00e9 and seeming appreciation by the public, most mainstream media tried to bury her after the TV debate. Outlets like Vox and CNN\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/10\/15\/20916495\/democratic-debate-october-2019-winners-losers\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>declared<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0that Warren was the winner of the debate, whose talking points were mainly about domestic policy issues. Like the other candidates, Warren plies the propaganda narrative of US forces \u201cfighting terrorism\u201d. Vox even slated Gabbard as \u201ca loser\u201d in the debate and claimed she had made \u201cblatantly false\u201d statements about the US\u2019 role in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Other mainstream news outlets chose to ignore reporting on Gabbard\u2019s demolishing of the official propaganda about American wars. Earlier this week, CNN and the New York Times\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/10\/15\/democratic-debates-tulsi-gabbard-rips-hosts-cnn-new-york-times\/\">smeared<\/a>\u00a0her<\/strong> <\/span>as a \u201cRussian asset\u201d and an \u201capologist for Assad\u201d, referencing a visit she made to Syria in 2017 when she held talks with President Assad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Democratic National Committee is\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/us\/201910161077058467-tulsi-gabbard-slams-cnn-nyt-at-dem-debate-for-completely-despicable-smears-over-syria-russia\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>claiming<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0that Gabbard does not have sufficient support in polls it deems worthy for her to qualify for appearing in the next TV debate in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">International events, however, are proving the Hawaii Representative right. US troops, as with other NATO forces, have been occupying Syrian territory illegally. They have no mandate from the United Nations Security Council. The pullback of US troops by Trump has created a vacuum in northeast Syria into which the Syrian Arab Army is quickly moving to reclaim the territory which US-backed Kurdish fighters had de facto annexed for the past five years. Several\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P0EwGEZKWvA&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>reports<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0show the local people are joyfully welcoming the arrival of the Syrian army. The scenes are reminiscent of when Syrian and Russian forces liberated Aleppo and other cities previously besieged by terror groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">America\u2019s war machine must get out of Syria for the sake of restoring peace to that war-torn country. Not because \u201cthey have defeated ISIS 100 per cent\u201d, as Trump would conceitedly claim, nor because \u201cwe are betraying Kurds in the fight against terrorism\u201d, as most Democrats and US media preposterously claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Peace will come to Syria and the Middle East when Washington finally ends its criminal regime-change wars and its support for terrorist proxies. Tulsi Gabbard seems to be the only politician with the intelligence and integrity to tell Americans the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"s4UxxfaL41\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196722\">Is Tulsi Gabbard Controlled Opposition?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Is Tulsi Gabbard Controlled Opposition?&#8221; &#8212; The Truthseeker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196722&#038;embed=true#?secret=s4UxxfaL41\" data-secret=\"s4UxxfaL41\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsi Gabbard has been telling it like it is and she is the only U.S. presidential candidate who is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,28,95,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Iraq","category-beheadings-by-muslim-militants","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196667"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196770,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196667\/revisions\/196770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}