Many Gabbad supporters make the false equation of other Democrats visiting Assad with her actions

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3. There is another side to this story.

First of all, I am not a supporter of Tulsi Gabbard, nor am I a Russian troll. I'm just a guy who reads posts on this website. I do listen to what Tulsi Gabbard says, just like I listen to most of the rest of the candidates for the Democratic Presidential Primary. I can't speak for Tulsi Gabbard, and I don't pretend to. It's just that, IMO, people need to know there is another side to this story. People can make up their own minds about Tulsi Gabbard. They can choose to read what they read and watch video what they want to watch. They can choose to believe what they want to believe.

CNN.com, on February 6, 2019, posted a story about Gabbard at https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/06/politics/tulsi-gabbard-syria-assad/index. "When asked later in the interview if she thought Assad was a good person, Gabbard said, "No, I don't," and asked if Russian President Vladimir Putin was an adversary to the US, she responded, "Yes." Later Wednesday, Gabbard tweeted that "warmongers" were wrong to label her as a "'cozy' with evil regime."

USAToday.com, on August 2, 2019, posted a story about Gabbard, at https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/08/02/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-al-assad-a-brutal-dictator/1902579001/, headlined "Tulsi Gabbard: Bashar al-Assad is 'a brutal dictator, just like Saddam Hussein'".

Newsweek.com, on August 1, 2019, posted a story about Gabbard at https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-assad-controversy-explained-1452141 headlined "The Tulsi Gabbard Bashar Al-Assad Controversy Explained". In that report, she is quoted as saying "In Iraq, serving in a medical unit, every single day confronted with that high human cost of war," Gabbard said, referring to her deployment in a country ravaged by unrest since a 2003 U.S. invasion that toppled its government. I will never apologize for doing all that I can to prevent more of my brothers and sisters from being sent into harm's way, to fight counter-productive regime-change wars that make our country less safe, that take more lives, and that cost taxpayers trillions more dollars," she added. "So if that means meeting with a dictator, or meeting with an adversary, absolutely. I would do it. This is about the national security of our country."