{"id":73202,"date":"2017-05-25T08:57:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73202"},"modified":"2017-05-25T08:57:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:57:32","slug":"congresswoman-gabbard-announces-tour-to-challenge-trump-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=73202","title":{"rendered":"Congresswoman Gabbard Announces Tour To Challenge Trump Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Healdsburg, CA<br \/>\nMay 24, 2017<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Right now, it feels to me like there are only two sane people in Congress: Tulsi<br \/>\nGabbard and Rand Paul. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68524\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68524<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both have sponsored legislation to prevent the US government from funding<br \/>\nterrorists and both are now speaking out against President Trump&#8217;s decision<br \/>\nto arm Saudi Arabia to the teeth: <a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=173747\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=173747<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gabbard is so upset with this move that she has announced plans to commence<br \/>\na national tour challenging the president&#8217;s foreign policy:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/05\/24\/exclusive-a-statement-from-tulsi-gabbard\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/05\/24\/exclusive-a-statement-from-tulsi-gabbard\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why are these the only two politicians questioning Trump&#8217;s move? Where is<br \/>\nBernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton or even former President Obama regarding<br \/>\nthis complete reversal by the new president from his previous rhetoric declaring<br \/>\nthe Saudis to be &#8220;the world&#8217;s biggest funders of terrorism!&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>For those outraged by this dramatic escalation of tensions in the already distressed<br \/>\n&#8220;Holy Land&#8221; the chance to act has arrived. Congresswoman Gabbard has announced<br \/>\nplans for a national tour to oppose the arms sale and challenge Trump&#8217;s foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Now citizens can support her efforts by contacting Gabbard&#8217;s office and help organize<br \/>\nlocal events.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe recently outlined a case for impeaching<br \/>\nPresident Trump. I find it fascinating he failed to include any mention of him waging<br \/>\nan illegal war of aggression against Syria.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sg.style.yahoo.com\/laurence-tribe-outlines-case-impeachment-authoritarian-leader-donald-165804356.html\">http:\/\/sg.style.yahoo.com\/laurence-tribe-outlines-case-impeachment-authoritarian-leader-donald-165804356.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That war crime violates the UN Charter and international law established by the<br \/>\nNuremberg War Crimes Tribunal after WWII. It also violates the War Powers Act<br \/>\nand the separation of powers clause of the Constitution that delegates to Congress<br \/>\nthe power to declare war.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, Congresswoman Gabbard will address that and other urgent matters<br \/>\nonce she begins her tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-73202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73202","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=73202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}