Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: ‘Saudi Arabia, in Fact, Is Not Our Ally, Their Interests Do Not Align With Ours’

RUSH EXCERPT:
GABBARD: "This should challenge us to look at the facts of Saudi Arabia's record beyond what has happened to this journalist, things like Saudi Arabia being a theocratic dictatorship, Saudi Arabia being this number one exporter of the extreme wahabi salafist notion and Saudi Arabia continuing to wage the centuries old sectarian war, the sunni/shia war in which part of that war they are funding, financing and providing funding and support to terrorist groups like Al Qaeda in places like Syria and also waging a genocidal war in Yemen that has killed tens of thousands of Yemeni civilians and children and creating what the U.N. Has called the worst humanitarian crisis in a generation with 8 million people who are starving and sick because of this saudi-u.s. Coalition's blockade in Yemen, so this should force this tougher conversation here and to be confronted with the facts that Saudi Arabia, in fact, is not our ally. Their interests do not align with ours."