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Title: Tulsi Gabbard eviscerates Trump as 'Saudi Arabia's bitch'
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NBC News
URL Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co ... p-saudi-arabia-s-bitch-n939011
Published: Nov 21, 2018
Author: Adam Edelman
Post Date: 2018-11-21 18:56:58 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 1487
Comments: 14
"Hey @realdonaldtrump: being Saudi Arabia’s bitch is not 'America First,'" the Hawaii Democrat tweeted.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday slammed President Donald Trump as "Saudi Arabia's bitch" in the latest scathing criticism of the commander-in-chief's extraordinary statement this week to stand by the country's rulers despite the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The Hawaii Democratic congresswoman made the remarks in a brief and blistering tweet Wednesday afternoon.
"Hey @realdonaldtrump: being Saudi Arabia's bitch is not 'America First,'" wrote Gabbard, a 37-year-old Iraq War veteran who at various points has been considered a rising star in her party.
The tweet was in apparent reference to Trump's exclamation point-filled formal presidential statement Tuesday that his administration would take no actions against Saudi Arabia's rulers regarding the Khashoggi killing — despite NBC News and other reports last week that the CIA concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered Khashoggi's killing.
"It could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event — maybe he did and maybe he didn't!" Trump said in the statement, which featured a subheading that read "America First!" In the statement, he also outlined how the U.S. needed Saudi support to help fight terrorism internationally and to help keep oil prices low.
On Wednesday morning, he followed the statement with a tweet about oil, saying that it was "Great!" that “prices getting lower”
Oil prices getting lower. Great! Like a big Tax Cut for America and the World. Enjoy! $54, was just $82. Thank you to Saudi Arabia, but let’s go lower!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 21, 2018
"Enjoy! $54, was just $82. Thank you to Saudi Arabia, but let’s go lower!" he wrote, hours before Gabbard chimed in.
The white-hot words from Gabbard mark a departure from an earlier apparent attempt to work with him. In November 2016, just weeks after Trump won the election, Gabbard met with the president-elect at Trump Tower to discuss the war in Syria and other foreign policy issues. Gabbard called the meeting "frank and positive," and there was speculation at the time that she was being considered for a job in his administration.
Previously, Gabbard had clashed with President Barack Obama and other top Democrats, especially on foreign policy and Syria (during Obama's second term she appeared on Fox News to lambaste the administration for refusing to use the term “Islamic extremism"). And in January 2017, she revealed that she'd traveled to the war-torn country, without the knowledge of her party's leaders, to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Trump's statement about Khashoggi, and broader decision to side with Saudi Arabia over his own intelligence agencies, prompted furious criticism from both sides of the aisle.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Tuesday tweeted, "I'm pretty sure this statement is Saudi Arabia First, not America First."
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., tweeted Tuesday night, "I never thought I'd see the day a White House would moonlight as a public relations firm for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia."
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Gabbard is awesome when it comes to foreign policy.
And she's right on this score.
I'm sure Trump sees jobs as the advantage of sticking with the arms deal, and Trump is correct in that it's a hell of a lot of money. But it comes at a very high price of surrendering any credibility in being about standing up to dictatorial regimes.
The right thing to do is to inform Saudi Arabia that a monarchy is no longer an acceptable form of government and that they must transition to an elected constitutional republic. And the Saudi monarchy would have about no other allies that would bail them out.
Long term, it's just not worth the jobs to support that regime.
#2. To: Willie Green (#0)
Same people upset that Trump will do nothing for moslem murdering moslem are the same people who bitch when US does something in the muddle-east. Go figure!
If we are lucky the ME will murder itself and the world will be so much better off. To bad we could not get the Regressives to just murder other Regressives and we would have a utopia upon the land!!
#3. To: Willie Green (#0)
despite NBC News and other reports last week that the CIA concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered Khashoggi's killing.
The CIA concluded he "had" to know. They have no proof.
Trump is supposed to conduct foreign policy based on someone else's guesswork?
#4. To: Pinguinite (#1)
And she's right on this score.
Fuck Khashoggi. Why should we care?
First, he's a journalist. Second, he's a Saudi citizen, not ours. Third, his writings pissed off the Saudi government and he knew it. Fourth, he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, considered by Saudi Arabia to be a terrorist organization.
You play with fire you get burnt. I don't expect, nor want, our government getting involved with every journalist trying to make a name for themselves.
#5. To: misterwhite (#3)
Trump is supposed to conduct foreign policy based on someone else's guesswork?
Yes, since their guesswork is better informed than his...
#6. To: Willie Green (#5)
Yes, since their guesswork is better informed than his...
Anyone can conclude "he must have known". We're supposed to upend our Midest strategy based on that?
Look what happened when a President believed the intelligence agencies on Iraq.
#7. To: misterwhite (#4)
Fuck Khashoggi. Why should we care?
First, he's a journalist. Second, he's a Saudi citizen, not ours. Third, his writings pissed off the Saudi government and he knew it. Fourth, he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, considered by Saudi Arabia to be a terrorist organization.
You play with fire you get burnt. I don't expect, nor want, our government getting involved with every journalist trying to make a name for themselves.
Except for not caring about the Muslim Brotherhood being a terrorist group, we could take that position. Because if we care about the MB being terrorists, then we also have to care about the Saudi gov being terrorists. If we are not to care about one, then we can't rightly care about the other, can we?
And we can't care about Assad and Iran either. Who the hell cares if Iran does nuke Israel, or if Assad gasses his own people? That's none of our business either, right? No US citizens involved, and if you play with fire, you get burnt.
Are you on board with this? If so, fine.
#8. To: Pinguinite (#7)
Because if we care about the MB being terrorists, then we also have to care about the Saudi gov being terrorists.
I don't know that we (the U.S.) DO care about the MB. I know Saudi Arabia does. And that's the issue here.
"And we can't care about Assad and Iran either. Who the hell cares if Iran does nuke Israel, or if Assad gasses his own people? That's none of our business either, right? No US citizens involved, and if you play with fire, you get burnt."
I am all for disengaging from the Middle East. All my long life I've heard nothing but conflict in the Middle East -- mostly between Israel and some group. Worse, I see no end in sight despite our efforts.
So I support withdrawing all aid and washing our hands of the whole mess. Especially now that we're energy independent.
#9. To: misterwhite (#8)
I don't know that we (the U.S.) DO care about the MB. I know Saudi Arabia does. And that's the issue here.
So we care what one despot, terrorist regime thinks about another terror group?
But good to see consistency on the other points.
#10. To: Pinguinite (#9)
So we care what one despot, terrorist regime thinks about another terror group?
No. It helps to explain their actions.
#11. To: misterwhite, Ronald Reagan, Poppy Bush, Mujahadeen CIA (#4)
1985 Afghanistan
Khashoggi was a Ronald Reagan CIA Mujahadeen terrorist.
#12. To: hondo68 (#11)
Yeah, back in the good ol' days when journalists carried RPGs and fought alongside the terrorists.
#13. To: misterwhite (#12)
#14. To: Willie Green (#0)
The Soviets should have nuked the US for murdering the President of South Vietnam, and his Brother on the streets of LA, if it was any of their business.
In this world "Might makes Right". At times I wish it didn't, but if wishes were horses.......
The guy crossed the wrong people, it happens all the time in this world. How many drone killings did Obama inflict upon American citizens in a foreign country?
THIS IS A TAG LINE...Exercising rights is only radical to two people, Tyrants and Slaves. Which are YOU? Our ignorance has driven us into slavery and we do not recognize it.
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