Tulsi Gabbard challenges White House
Tulsi Gabbard is a newly-elected Democrat Congresswoman representing Hawaii. She’s also a veteran of two deployments in the war against terror and she disputes the White House/the President’s refusal to take the ISIS threat seriously. Members of her party are alarmed at the freshman’s uppity treatment of the President from her own state, according to Fox News;
“Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don’t know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him,” Gabbard told FoxNews.com. “Our leaders must clearly identify the enemy as Islamist extremists, understand the ideology that is motivating them and attracting new recruits, and focus on defeating that enemy both militarily and ideologically.”
Gabbard has been hitting this message for weeks now, putting her at odds with many in her party who toe the line that the Islamic State should not be associated with Islam.
Gabbard called “mind-boggling” Obama’s refusal to associate ISIS with the Muslim religion, even though the terrorist army is emphatic it is enforcing a strict interpretation of Islam.
“[Obama] is completely missing the point of this radical Islamic ideology that’s fueling these people,” she said.
Of course, it won’t change any minds in the halls of policy makers, but it is refreshing to hear someone who speaks from the experience of the war against terror from that side of the aisle. There have been veterans who are also Democrats in Congress, but they surrendered their testicles at the door of Congress.At least no one is challenging her status as a veteran at this point, you know, like they have with Republican women in Congress.
Thanks to GruntSgt for the link.
Category: Terror War
Sun Tzu would be so proud.
Yup! +12
I’ve seen this woman on Fox News a few times over the last several weeks and she presents herself extremely well…..for a Democrat, anyway.
Politically she’s an outspoken moderate on some issues, attractive, articulate and with her military experience a thorn in the side of the typical progressive-socialist-Democrat that currently occupy Washington DC.
Why she’s got a “D” after her name is beyond me, although I must admit that I don’t know her position on social issues, etc. I’m sure that her constituents in Hawaii, one of the most liberal states wouldn’t elect her unless she qualified as a progressive.
Does the Republican Party even exist in Hawaii? She seems to be the most conservative representative they’ve sent east since at least Inouye. That may not be saying much in and of itself, but like Jonn said, it’s refreshing to see. The Jackass Party has those island locked down tighter than Chicago.
Like the state I currently reside in, it doesn’t matter who you are, you cannot (except with very rare exceptions) win a statewide election unless you put a “D” after your name.
We proved differently in Arkansas in the General Election and you can do the same in your state. All senators and congressmen, governor and all 7 Constitutional officers, control of the state house and senate and unheard of victories at the county-level. Hawaii is where Obama went to college. After being stationed there for over 5 years long before Obama came on the scene, and having one daughter who was uncontrollable, I put a provision in my will if she went to one of two colleges she was cutoff. One was Obama’s college in Hawaii and the other in Portland, OR. Hawaiian’s are really nice people but a mainly one-party state even with the number of retired military there.
A few years ago a Republican was elected Governor of Hawaii (Linda Lingle). That was significantly rare, but the previous (D) Governor was so bad, it was a fairly easy win. He even became know as “Osama Ben Cayetano” (Yes, really)
Republicans don’t do so well in Hawaii because about 100 years ago, it was the “Republicans” that annexed Hawaii as a territory of the US.
So yes, if she put an “R” after her name, she probably wouldn’t have gotten elected. (One Senator and two Representatives since Hawaii became a state have been Republicans. Only 2 Governors have been Republican since as well.)
I’m a bit rusty on it, but that’s the jist. High school students in Hawaii have to take a “Modern Hawaiian History” class to graduate. Though, for some reason, it covers the entirety of Hawaiian History, but I don’t remember why its called “Modern”.
As I understand it, they tend to be rather selective regarding which parts of their history get taught. Then again, I’ve been to Hawaii once in my life, and the only educational focus I had at the time (aside from a very somber visit to the Arizona Memorial and a tour of the Missouri that left me with a raging moto-boner that bordered on priapism) was the mind-boggling variety of beautiful females in all the colors of the rainbow, so I might have missed something.
A few words:
1. Veteran
2. Smart
3. Honest
Bonus word:
1. HOT
That is all!
I have to remember that I cannot do any serious thinking or writing until after noon, EST.
Definitely a poor choice of words in my comment above. Attractive?? Jeez, what was I thinking?
Now I know why MCPO is/was a MCPO. The man calls them as he sees them….no BS, no dancing around the subject, no hyperbole, no metaphorical metaphores!
Ms Gabbard is, in a word, HOT!
I thank MCPO for straightening my skinny Irish ass out!
🙂
Well, maybe skinny is in the eye of the beholder.
Is!
She’s also still a Captain (Maybe a Major by now) In the Army National Guard in Hawaii.
But yes, a Hot Representative Captain…
Hottie female polytushins…
Rep Kristi Noem
Rep Jaime Herrera
Rep Marsha Blackburn
Rep Mary Bono Mack
Rep Martha McSally
Sen Joni Earnst
Rep Tulsi Gabbard
To me this isn’t an issue about ‘taking the threat seriously’ or ‘identifying the enemy’, it’s simply a question of what the most effective thing our leaders can say.
President Obama and various other leaders know ISIS are Islamist extremists. The only real positive effect of stating that which I can see is that it makes some people here feel better – strategically, it doesn’t really alter much, does it? The negative effect, on the other hand, is that it irks Muslim allies & currently neutral parties in the region who feel these ISIS bastards have nothing to do with Islam, and that does>/i> have strategic implications.
In other words, I’m fine with the President not stating the obvious as I feel it helps our relationship with others fighting the same threat.
Ummmmm…
I gotta part ways with you on this assessment of the lack of honesty displayed by ovomit when dealing with ISIS.
He does it because he has no concept of how or when to fight a war. The fact that his background contains many shady identification items leads most of us on here to question the real motives for his refusal to call a spade a spade.
His cowardice is exemplified by his lack of dealing with ISIS on other terms. This personal cowardice is bolstered by the fact that he refused to stand with the King of Jordan and the Jordanian Air Force as they attacked some of the strongholds of the current crop of terrorists that call themselves ISIS.
The lib media says that his 2200 sorties against them is proof that he is against them. But we all know that most of those missions were only to cover his ass by dropping bombs on old churches and other non strategic areas.
Jordan immediately destroyed several targets known to be of high value when they went after ISIS but the US under ovomit has only hit small areas and basically done nothing but be a sabre rattling exercise to supposedly prove that he is actually doing something about ISIS.
There is no way that refusing to identify ISIS helps anyone do anything other than make a bunch of moronic fuckwad liberals here feel like they are doing something to stop a real fucking threat. In actuality, he won’t even attempt to stop any ISIS terrorists at the southern border of the US.
You should really pull your head out of your ass before you suffocate on stupid liberal feel good metaphors…
“Here, you go attack him, I’ll write a strongly worded letter and I won’t call him any names either !!!”
As if that has never happened before with this clown crewe in DC…
Sheesh…
You make a lot of unfounded assumptions – you think the Oval Office is choosing individual targets for the airstrikes on ISIS, and that they’re purposely dropping bombs on old churches and not targets of any real value? I don’t even know what to say to that.
But, since you bring up King Abdullah of Jordan, here’s what he has to say on calling ISIS ‘Islamic’:
http://thehill.com/policy/international/234236-jordans-king-backs-obama-on-isis-label
To quote: “Jordan’s king said in an interview broadcast Sunday that President Obama is right not to call terror groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Islamic extremists.”
And yet his administration has no trouble labeling “right-wing extremists” as such.
Not to mention, those crazed-veterans, the whole lot of them….
So, the hypocrisy knows no bounds with King Barry.
Emphases added.
If it was good enough for the President to positively name the enemy, why cannot the current President positively name the enemy?
It’s a different kind of enemy and a different kind of war. Back then we warred against nations, now we war against ideas – and conflating these guys with Islam, though clearly their beliefs are based in it, doesn’t do us any favors with our allies and neutral parties in the region.
What do you feel are the pros and cons of labeling them ‘Islamic extremists’? How would it change the fight for the better?
Jesus Christ, I am sick of hearing about this woman! All the boss talks about is how bright, articulate, and clean she is. Says he wants to smell her hair or some shit. To which I reply, “Motherfucker, you don’t have a hair on your ass…” (he’s so easy to manipulate, ha ha). I should know. After all, where do you think I came from?
I knew someone would mention her looks.
Looks trumps all, even political affiliation!
Her hotness is merely a bonus.
The truth sounds good no matter whose mouth utters it. Well done, Congresswoman.
John,
So much for not challenging her combat record….
Bob Jones, a columnist for the Oahu-based Midweek, wrote that Ms. Gabbard’s comments were out of line.
“I take serious issue when somebody who’s done a little non-fighting in Iraq, and is not a Middle East or Islamic scholar, claims to know better than our President and Secretary of State how to fathom the motivations of terrorists, or how to refer to them beyond the term that best describes them — terrorists,” Mr. Jones said.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/28/tulsi-gabbard-rising-dem-star-committed-mortal-sin/#ixzz3TAHsjg00
Yea….and POTUS and SECSTATE are experts???
Hussein is a Muslim that’s why. This is acknowledged when he defends it constantly but portrayed as he’s not when it’s a source of criticism for his absurd enemy aiding policies that spit in the face of national security or decency towards Americans.
They (politicos) tend to think they are smarter than all of us in the fly over states.
I have to wonder if Bob Jones was ever in Iraq. “Non-fighting” ,,, even when I was “safe” on a FOB, we were mortared and rocketed daily as well as VBIEDs and suicide bombers hitting the gates often (2003-2005 timeframe).
He is perfect example of why I don’t post on here often. I don’t want to have my ignorance in print for others to read. Maybe he should think about doing the same.
These dickbutts. An Islamist is already an extremist. There isn’t any Islamist that isn’t any extremist.
It’s like calling a Nazi an extremist.
It sounds like Obama is terrified of alienating the huge “radical Islamist” voting block occupying middle america.
In Hawaii you can’t win an election for national office unless you’re a Democrat. That in mind, I care more that she’s a veteran, than what party affiliation she has. I think she’ll do/vote the right way when given the legislation/committee.
Having lived in Hawaii for over 11 years, I’d say the Democrats in Hawaii are plotting her demise as we speak.
Well, once they stop gambling/whoring/beating their families, they will find a way to attack her.
I have to wonder if the whole kerfluffle is based on Obama’s general contempt for the intelligence of the American populace. The problem is not the overall religion of Islam, the problem is the Islamist assholes who pervert the religion for their own twisted purposes. He insults our intelligence by only saying we are NOT at war with Islam… what he needs to do is make sure to always state we are for damn sure at war with Islamists instead instead of trying to hairsplit on Islam in general.
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