Gabbard Blasts Turkey's Erdogan as 'Radical Islamist Megalomaniac' Who Helps ISIS

[Celerity]

Gabbard joined relatives of Sept. 11 victims the day before and called for an end to U.S. aid to Saudi Arabia

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/gabbard-blasts-turkey-s-erdogan-as-radical-islamist-megalomaniac-who-helps-isis-1.8058316

Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard ripped into Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Twitter Wednesday.

Gabbard said, "Erdogan has been helping ISIS/AQ for years. He has denied this but is now openly using militias of "former" ISIS/AQ terrorists, exposing him for what he really is: a radical Islamist megalomaniac who wants to establish a caliphate with himself as the Caliph — the supreme ruler.

Turkey also on Wednesday condemned two resolutions passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that symbolize deteriorating Turkish-American relations.

Addressing his ruling party, Erdogan said he wouldn't recognize the nonbinding House resolution to recognize the century-old mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. The bill passed 405-11.

Link to tweet

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Tulsi Gabbard rips Trump's Syria decision: 'Kurds are now paying the price'

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/465431-gabbard-rips-trumps-syria-decision-kurds-are-now-paying-the-price

Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) on Friday ripped President Trump over his decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria and turn operations over to Turkey. Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran, told Hill.TV said that even though she supported Trump’s initial decision in December 2018 to move troops from the region, she said he has failed to do so in a responsible way.

“All that he has done is remove them from the northern border of Syria — really laying out a red-carpet, a green light for [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan and Turkey to launch an ethnic cleansing and offensive against the Kurds,” Gabbard told Hill.TV.

“Because of Trump’s failure to end the regime change war in Syria — the Kurds are now paying the price,” she added.

The Hawaii Democrat previously criticized Trump and other Republicans over the move in a series on tweets on Tuesday.

“The hypocrisy of war-mongers like Nikki Haley, Senator Graham & others who have demanded that we continue our regime change war in Syria, who are now crying crocodile tears for the Kurds, is nauseating,” she tweeted.

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[atreides1]

1. Well!

She got one right.

[crazytown]

2. And she skipped the vote on the Armenian genocide.

[Celerity]

3. was out campaigning for POTUS more than likely

I posted an OP about her missing votes (this was before she announced she was not running for her House seat again)

State Sen. Kai Kahele criticizes Tulsi Gabbard for missing House vote on Syria

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287313276

She’s missed more than half of the votes in the House since July, according to GovTrack.us. She also hasn’t held a town hall in Hawaii since April 2017.

and got this reply

which surprised me

[Dopers_Greed]

4. Agreed

Though can she cut out the far right language?

[LanternWaste]

5. She's certainly getting a lot of ink the past tenday