{"id":14649,"date":"2015-11-22T09:03:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T14:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14649"},"modified":"2015-11-22T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T14:03:57","slug":"us-congresswoman-introduces-bill-to-stop-illegal-war-on-assad-says-cia-ops-must-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14649","title":{"rendered":"US Congresswoman Introduces Bill To Stop &#8220;Illegal&#8221; War On Assad; Says CIA Ops Must Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-11-21\/us-congresswoman-introduces-bill-stop-illegal-war-assad-says-cia-ops-must-stop\" target=\"_blank\">US Congresswoman Introduces Bill To Stop &#8220;Illegal&#8221; War On Assad; Says CIA Ops Must Stop<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Last month, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard went on CNN and laid bare Washington\u2019s Syria strategy.<\/p>\n<p>In a remarkably candid interview with Wolf Blitzer,\u00a0<strong>Gabbard calls Washington\u2019s effort to oust Assad \u201ccounterproductive\u201d and \u201cillegal\u201d before taking it a step further and accusing the CIA of arming the very same terrorists who The White House insists are &#8220;sworn enemies.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In short, Gabbard all but tells the American public that the government is lying to them and may end up inadvertently starting \u201cWorld War III.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For those who missed it, here\u2019s the clip:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IHkher6ceaA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That was before Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Well, in the wake of the attacks, Gabbard has apparently had just about enough of Washington vacillating in the fight against terror just so the US can ensure that ISIS continues to destabilize Assad and now, with bi-partisan support,\u00a0<strong>the brazen Hawaii Democrat has introduced legislation to end the &#8220;illegal war&#8221; to overthrow Assad.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gabbard, who fought in Iraq &#8211;\u00a0<em>twice<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; has partnered with Republican Adam Scott on the bill. Here&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/us-lawmakers-forget-assad-focus-172759340.html\">AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><em>In an unusual alliance,\u00a0<strong>a House Democrat and Republican have teamed up to urge the Obama administration to stop trying to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad\u00a0<\/strong>and focus all its efforts on destroying Islamic State militants.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Reps. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat, and Austin Scott, a Republican, introduced legislation on Friday to end what they called an &#8220;illegal war&#8221; to overthrow Assad,\u00a0<\/strong>the leader of Syria accused of killing tens of thousands of Syrian citizens in a more than four-year-old civil war entangled in a battle against IS extremists, also known as ISIS.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The U.S. is waging two wars in Syria,&#8221; Gabbard said. &#8220;The first is the war against ISIS and other Islamic extremists, which Congress authorized after the terrorist attack on 9\/11.\u00a0<strong>The second war is the illegal war to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Scott said, &#8220;Working to remove Assad at this stage is counter-productive to what I believe our primary mission should be.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Congresswoman Introduces Bill To Stop &#8220;Illegal&#8221; War On Assad; Says CIA Ops Must Stop Last month, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard went on CNN and laid bare Washington\u2019s Syria strategy. In a remarkably candid interview with Wolf Blitzer,\u00a0Gabbard calls Washington\u2019s effort to oust Assad \u201ccounterproductive\u201d and \u201cillegal\u201d before taking it a step further and accusing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10703,35,135,10704,442,1239,446,447,2510,776,10392,862,865,877,4177,3985,4318],"class_list":["post-14649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-adam-scott","tag-assad","tag-cia","tag-illegal-war","tag-iraq","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-paris","tag-syria","tag-tulsi-gabbard","tag-war","tag-washington","tag-white-house","tag-wolf-blitzer","tag-world-war-iii","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14650,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14649\/revisions\/14650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}