Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Rep. Ilhan Omar's Israel controversy: 'What she was trying to bring up was something that was a deeper issue and I don't believe that her intent was to cause any offense to anyone' CNNTownHall
Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard was asked whether she thought Rep. Ilhan Omar's controversial tweets suggesting US support of Israel is motivated by money were anti-Semitic.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard sought to explain her shift from advocating anti-gay policies in the early 2000s on Sunday night, saying her time in the military caused her to “go through some soul-searching." Gabbard said her views shifted when she deployed to the Middle East, “where I saw firsthand the negative impact of a government attempting to act as a moral arbiter for their people, dictating in the most personal ways how they must live their lives.”
"See here is the thing with all these labels and, as you said, how they are used to define people and where they're coming from. As you see, so many of these labels are misused, misunderstood," she said."I'm an independent-minded person, I'm a Democrat and my sole focus and purpose is to figure out how we can best serve the people of this country," she said.
Gabbard, a veteran of the Iraq War, said her “position and my commitment in fighting to end these counterproductive regime-change wars is based on these experiences and my understanding the cost of war and who pays the price.” "Every time we launch these interventionist regime change wars, it is not only our veterans who pay the price for that," she says."Every single one of us pays the price.": Gabbard's campaign has been defined by chaos inside the operation and a string of fits and starts to the congresswoman's decision to get into the race in the first place. The unexpected announcement forced Gabbard's team to scramble to get her campaign infrastructure in order.
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