[Peace] Tulsi Gabbard left the Democratic Party

[J.B. Nicholson]

Her statement:
https://rumble.com/v1nhd94-why-im-leaving-the-democratic-party..html
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1579788950696185859

Coverage includes:
https://www.rt.com/news/564475-tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democrats/

Gabbard leaving the Democratic Party is a step in the right direction and I concur 
with her assessment of the Democratic Party from her statement. I remain suspicious 
that she's a firm believer in the duopoly (given what she told Primo Nutmeg years 
ago), and I think that it would be interesting to hear her reconcile her previous 
(somewhat self-contradictory) statements endorsing drone war given to The Intercept. 
Her endorsement of Joe Biden for US President makes her objections to war all the 
harder to take seriously. After all, Biden famously voted for the AUMF for invading 
Iraq under G.W. Bush, so it's not like we didn't know Biden was such a hawk when he 
later ran for POTUS.



One of the major reasons why she's leaving is that that party is pro-war ("I can no 
longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of 
an elitist cabal of warmongers...") so it would be useful to know if she's 
reconsidered what she told The Intercept in 2018 which is still online at 
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/ in an interview 
with Jeremy Scahill, "[...] with these terrorist cells, for example, yes, I do still 
believe that the right approach to take is these quick strike forces, surgical 
strikes, in and out, very quickly, no long-term deployment, no long-term occupation 
to be able to get rid of the threat that exists and then get out and the very limited 
use of drones in those situations where our military is not able to get in without 
creating an unacceptable level of risk, and where you can make sure that you’re not 
causing, you know, a large amount of civilian casualties.".

Drone war always "[causes] a large amount of civilian casualties" as both Daniel Hale 
told us (shortly before he went to prison for telling us details on this) and former 
US Air Force analyst Heather Linebaugh told us. Both were featured in the documentary 
"National Bird" two years before Gabbard gave that Intercept interview.

Linebaugh said, "Hearing politicians speak about drones being precision weapons, 
being able to make 'surgical strikes', to me it's completely ridiculous, completely 
ludicrous to even make those statements. It's as flawed as it can be with those 
people operating it from across the world. If they really think they can send a bomb 
through a window of a compound and hit one militant then why are we seeing so many 
civilians die of collateral damage? I'd like to ask those politicians have they not 
been notified of that? Do they not know what's going on in their own war that they're 
controlling?". That's what I like to call a 'prebuttal' to Gabbard's Intercept 
interview -- a rebuttal that comes before the statement it rebuts.

So I'll give Gabbard credit for leaving a neocon party. I'll withdraw this credit if 
she later joins the Republicans because they're also a neocon party (these parties 
agree on all of the biggest issues of the day, issues that cost the most money and 
lives, because both of those parties are funded by same people/organizations). 
Gabbard told Primo Nutmeg (in what appears to be a now hidden video -- 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkdl-QbtS1U ) that she wouldn't run outside of the 
Democratic Party because she didn't see any chance to win that way. She was going to 
remain a loyal Democrat throughout. And she was exactly that, even to the point of 
endorsing neocon Joe Biden as she left the presidential race.