Rep. Tulsi Gabbard called Hillary Clinton a “warmonger” and blasted her foreign policy credentials.
Appearing on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, the Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii agreed with Carlson’s assessment that Clinton was a “neocon,” or neoconservative.
“Look to her influence on going to launch regime change over in Syria, Libya,” Gabbard said. “You look throughout — obviously, her support for the war in Iraq — throughout her history. Her track record is well known.”
Gabbard said that many voted for President Trump in 2016 because of his pledge to bring U.S. troops home from the Middle East and trashed the administration’s current foreign policy in light of the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
“I think this is why a lot of people back in 2016, in the general election, decided that they would vote for Trump because of what he was saying on the campaign trail about ending stupid wars and bringing our troops home,” Gabbard continued.
“I’m out on the campaign trail and hearing from a lot of people who had voted for Trump largely because of this issue, and their concern about how rather than ending stupid wars and bringing our troops home, what they’re seeing is more of our troops being deployed to the Middle East,” she said.
The 2020 presidential contender said that she supports withdrawing troops from the region.
“I’ve been calling for our troops from Iraq and Syria to come home. And here is why — when we deploy our troops downrange, when they’re in harm’s way, there has to be a very clear mission that’s achievable, where they know exactly what they’re doing there and why, and that that mission actually serves our country’s national security interests,” Gabbard said.
