Tulsi Gabbard attacks democrats for funding Trump Oppo Research

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41. Yes because spouting talking points from a dictator who's terrorized and murdered over a

million of his own people is commendable.


Critics say the thrust of her message — that those fighting Assad are all terrorists — sounds like it was pulled from a page of Assad's own propaganda machine.

“The talking points she's using about how there is no moderate Syrian opposition, and that everyone the Assad regime has been carrying out this campaign of violence on, that they're all terrorists, I mean, that sounds like something you hear on RT,” said the Democratic national security aide, referring to the state-funded Russian news organization.

No one is questioning Gabbard's patriotism, the aide emphasized, “but on this issue, she finds herself well out of the mainstream.”

Gabbard's office responded by pointing to a past statement: “There is no actual debate about the fact that ISIS and al-Qaeda are the most powerful opposition groups,” she said in 2014.

Gabbard's decision to sit down with Assad has infuriated some human rights advocates.

“No one is against a political solution,” Mouaz Moustafa, executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, said Thursday by phone. “What the harm is in meeting with him is, it empowers him. This is a guy who believes that he can militarily win. He doesn't believe in a political solution.”

Moustafa, who said he'd previously accompanied Gabbard to the Turkey-Syria border, said her meeting was “beyond shameful.”

“What she's saying is, 'This is a legitimate president, everyone he's fighting is a terrorist, and we should empower him to continue to kill his own people,’” he charged.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/316430-gabbard-meeting-with-assad-draws-disgust-from-fellow-lawmakers