{"id":70792,"date":"2017-04-08T11:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T15:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70792"},"modified":"2017-04-08T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T15:43:22","slug":"rep-gabbard-syria-missile-strike-illegal-and-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70792","title":{"rendered":"Trump Ordered An &#8216;Illegal and Unconstitutional&#8217; Attack On Syria &#8212; War veteran serving in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rep. Gabbard: Syria missile strike &#8216;illegal and unconstitutional&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->FOX News<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5390345871001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, told Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; Friday that the American missile strike on a Syrian airfield as &#8220;an illegal and unconstitutional military strike&#8221; that drew the United States closer to military conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran, also said the strike was &#8220;an escalation of a counterproductive regime change war in Syria that our country\u2019s been waging for years, first through the CIA covertly, and now overtly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/01\/25\/hawaii-rep-gabbard-says-met-assad-during-syria-trip.html\">FLASHBACK: GABBARD SAYS SHE MET WITH ASSAD DURING SYRIA TRIP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In January, Gabbard met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus. When host Tucker Carlson asked if she believed Assad&#8217;s forces to be responsible for the chemical weapons attack that precipitated the missile strikes, Gabbard answered, &#8220;It doesn\u2019t matter what I believe or not. What matters is evidence and facts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the Trump administration has the evidence, unequivocally proving this, then share it with the American people,&#8221; Gabbard continued. &#8220;Share it with Congress. Come to Congress and make your case before launching an unauthorized, illegal military strike against a foreign government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard also said that efforts to overthrow Assad would only strengthen extremist groups, and expressed concerns about Moscow&#8217;s response to the missile strikes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia &#8230; are very closely allied with Syria and &#8230; have their own military operating [on] the ground there,&#8221; the congresswoman said, &#8220;and when you consider the consequences of that, the United States and Russia being the two nuclear powers in the world, it should be a cause of great concern for everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/04\/07\/rep-gabbard-syria-missile-strike-illegal-and-unconstitutional.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/04\/07\/rep-gabbard-syria-missile-strike-illegal-and-unconstitutional.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Gabbard: Syria missile strike &#8216;illegal and unconstitutional&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}