Tulsi Gabbard: Trump Has Undermined America’s National Security with Soleimani Attack

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GABBARD: “Actually, work to de-escalate the situation and we’ve got to recognize that these things did not just happen overnight. These things began with Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement and choosing to move away from diplomacy and further escalating tensions between the U.S. And Iran and escalating crippling sanctions of modern day sieges against Iran and sending more and more troops to the region and further escalating tensions. Of and designating Iran’s military as a terrorist organization and further escalating this conflict with Iran and something that has never been done by any country anywhere in the world before. It’s where he has not put the national security interest of our country first and I just want to finish this because there’s two main points here of how he has undermined the national security and number one, every day that goes on Iran is not in the nuclear agreement and just yesterday, he announced there are no longer abiding by any restrictions that were part of the agreement, that means they are closer to developing a nuclear weapon capability at putting us in the world at risk and, never to come up because the forces in Iraq for example are no longer going to be focusing on defeating and end assuring that al Qaeda and ISIS are not allowed the resurgence of the commander, our commander yesterday said we are not doing that anymore because our troops have to focus on Iran and allowing ISIS and al Qaeda to create and mount a resurgence — ”