Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has called for other countries to join the US in attacking the Houthis in Yemen, a country she previously strongly opposed intervening in.
The US launched a major round of airstrikes against Yemen on Saturday and in the days that followed, killing at least 53 people, including women and children. Gabbard said that the US wants countries that are more impacted by a disruption in Red Sea shipping to get involved.
“Our country and other countries should not be in a position to reroute commerce going through that area simply because of the threat that exists,” she told the Indian broadcaster NDTV during a visit to India, according to Bloomberg.
Gabbard said that President Trump had taken decisive action and that the US “will look to other affected countries, as there are many impacted by this, to similarly take action.”
The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, ceased their attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping after the Gaza ceasefire went into effect on January 19. The US began bombing Yemen again in response to the Houthis announcing that they would reimpose a blockade on Israeli shipping in the region.
During President Trump’s previous term in office, when Gabbard was in Congress, she was a leading critic of the US-backed Saudi war against the Houthis in Yemen, which killed hundreds of thousands of people.
“It is absolutely outrageous that the United States has continued its support for years now for Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war in Yemen that has killed thousands and thousands of innocent Yemeni people and caused mass starvation,” Gabbard said in a 2018 interview with The Real News.
At the time, Gabbard was critical of the fact that the Yemen war was unauthorized by Congress, making US participation illegal under the Constitution. President Trump’s new bombing campaign is also unauthorized and illegal, as was President Biden’s airstrikes against the Houthis that he launched from January 2024 to January 2025.
Gabbard was involved in a War Powers Resolution that would have ended US support for the Saudi war in Yemen, which was vetoed by Trump in 2019. “Congress has now for a very long time given up its responsibility to declare war. And this war in Yemen is a perfect example. So, I and a few of my colleagues are introducing a resolution that will take back our congressional authority and responsibility that’s given to us through the United States Constitution to stop this, our illegal participation in this Saudi-led genocidal war in Yemen,” she said in the 2018 interview.
That's disappointing. She's clearly sold her soul to the devil now that she has some real power and is working inside the system.
Kind of like Bernie who also sold his soul to the devil when he stopped being a socialist and became a Democrat. Just more proof that not a single one of our politicians can be trusted to do the right thing; the system in which they operate just corrupts them all inevitably.
Or were they simply soulless convincing frauds to begin with?
I followed both and they were both frauds to begin with to varying degrees.
I didn't follow closely Bernie's early career, I just knew he was a socialist and that's it. Can you explain why you thought he was a fraud to begin with?
To varying degrees… although he has an arrogant, mean streak in him, I do believe that he championed good causes. However, he was too weak to stand up to the power structure and ultimately became a part of it convincing himself that at least he is better than most politicians. In addiction, he was always Zionist and relatively recently started voicing support for Palestine but only because his base demanded it of him organically. He's not the worst.
In a way, he is. (The worst) Because he generated enormous energy for change, created a bipartisan collective, took millions of dollars from people who didn’t have a great deal of disposable cash, he had dedicated people who hit the streets for him and then he completely abandoned his “revolution” and funneled people to Clinton, and everything he allegedly stood against.
Round two: lather, rinse, repeat. But that time Genocide Joe, the “decent man”. He kept his mouth shut and covered up Biden’s dementia and then campaigned for Harris, a person who couldn’t form a coherent sentence.
Now he’s all gonzo for war with Russia and he suddenly noticed there are oligarchs.
Wait until the next election where he contorts himself to stomp for Rahm Emanuel or some other horrid creature in an ever escalating level of so called lesser evil.
He’s the Democrat’s most effective evil in controlled opposition.
Oh, and he already filed to run again for the senate in the next election where he would be 89, if alive.
The advantage is that he can start collecting campaign donations now.
Sounds like a nice grift.
I agree. I was focusing on how he started out. We all know how he ended up. Given she’s younger she unfortunately has more time to be worse. And given her trajectory she probably eyeing to be the first women elected president in the next four years.
You said it perfectly, Existential. And let's add that he went on yammering about some fictitious Russian election meddling when he damn well knew the only election meddling was by the Clinton campaign during the primaries… and targeted at him.
By the 2016 Democratic convention it was clear Clinton had played dirty. He should have gone independent and continued his campaign – just like supporters were urging him to do. But by that point he was too corrupt and cowardly to do such a thing.
And this is still curious:
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/11/fbi-redactions-on-seth-rich-index-leave-no-answers/
Yes, quite possibly. But I like to think that Bernie was genuinely a good guy once upon a time. Back more than two decades ago I volunteered for some org to deliver an appeal to every member of the House and Senate. So I entered every office in all 5 congressional buildings, and what struck me was the atmosphere in each one of them. Some were downright sinister and evil (Jesse Helms), but Bernie's was the best, full of young and enthusiastic staffers, you could just feel optimism and eagerness radiating, they were clearly on a mission to make the world a better place.
He’s a cantankerous old git now.
And just another Democratic warmonger.
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That's a cool life experience !
Of all US politicians who seemed promising but turned out to be "more of the same" at best (Bernie, Obama, McCain, among others), to my mind the only one that went from "Utter F**kwit" to "Remarkably Respectable" was Walter B. "Freedom Fries" Jones.
Realised his mistakes and went from Bush II era propagandist to, as I understand, personally writing the families to all US troops killed in Iraq to express his regret for support of that nonsense.
Perhaps a bit of irony too that "Jones co-sponsored the No More Presidential Wars Act with Democrat Tulsi Gabbard in 2017." (Wikipedia)
I don't recall any "promise" for McCain. But I'm a one trick pony so maybe he did something I'm not aware of.
He single-handedly killed Trump's attempt to repeal Obamacare (and replace it with nothing) during his first presidency. He also opposed torture. Other than that, I agree, I can't remember McCain ever doing something positive. He certainly never saw a war he didn't like.
He "opposed torture" but had no qualms about blowing people up or otherwise destroying their livelihood.
And that’s precisely why he was such an evil man.
I like to commend people for opposing torture but that means there are people that support it. How sad is that? And I can't help but wonder how McCain would have felt about torture had he not been tortured himself. He seemed like that kind of guy.
To my knowledge he never spoke up against torture by right-wing military regimes around the world (and particularly those in Latin America) that were taught how to torture at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning. Nor did he ever question the School of the Americas itself (as far as I know).
So, you may be onto something, he was “that kind of guy” who spoke up against torture only because it happened to him, but never dug deep into the extensive torture practices of the US government. And the anti-torture legislation he championed was full of loopholes that allowed the Bush Administration and CIA torturers to escape Scott free. So no real conviction on his part, just grandstanding. Still, I give him a little bit of credit for at least saying something, however hollow it might have been, rather than just blindly supporting the Bush Administration and the “war on terror”.
I recall something about campaign financing but Obama breaking the pact and taking huge corp sums.
That’s about it.
Here it is:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/mccain-campaign-press-release-timeline-reversal
No matter what kind of pony you are, McCain was the worst of the worst. That is why he is so lionized.
It was exhausting more than anything, lots of senators and representatives, hundreds of offices to find one by one, endless walking down halls. I also managed to royally embarrass myself.
I was looking for the office of Joe Lieberman, couldn't find it. I saw some random dude walking down a hall, walked up to him, and asked him where to find Joe Lieberman's office? He said follow me. I did, and he walked straight into that office. I handed my letter to the staff, explained the good cause, and when on to the next office, didn't think twice about that helpful little dude… until Joe Lieberman ran for vice president in 2000 and became a household name.
And then it hit me, the dude in the hall I had asked if he knew where Joe Lieberman's office was… was Joe Lieberman himself! 😳
Back in the late 1980's he came to my apartment door in Burlington VT and introduced a man running for Burlington Counsal or somesuch position. He was no longer the mayor and may have been a new Fed. Reprsentive. Back before his demonic-oppression.
I follow UK politics when someone become interesting and I was following Boris Johnson before he became hospitalized with covid and what a change when he came out, I wondered how much torture, hypoxeia, and MKU drugs they used to 'turn him' – anyone will tell you he switched and became sort of mentally slower.
I wonder how much that is done to those that will not turn to Demonic Darkness in Washington DC.
Your ready for schopenhauer…
~William Blum
Even when she was pretending to be a kinda sorta a little bit non-interventionist, she made it clear that she’s fine with killing as many Muslims as possible if it can be done without endangering US troops.
Very thoughtful. /s
That's true. I also never found her allegedly newfound respect for the LGBT community quite convincing. And it turned out to be fake.
… along with her support of warrantless searches, jack-booted justice head of the Secret Police.
Live and let live does not mean U have to respect them. 🙂
… and now fully out'd as a card-carrying genocide.
That's why I left a comment on another site this morning about the system. They set it up that way at one point that no matter who you vote for the uniparty leaders always win. And before you even get to the voting booth they have already selected the candidates for us via propaganda, money blitz and media push.
For that reason, both parties have been against Third Parties and will stifle them with all their might and the majority believe it and will even scold those who don't comply, saying that they are the reason for getting the "wrong" candidate to win. Perot could have won so he was pushed out (sure, sure he withdrew). Bernie could have won so he was bought off and he took the money and bought stuff. RFK Jr. might have won so the D's pushed him out the R's accepted him and stuffed him into a place they still control, RFK Jr, is already backpaddling from his former stand.
Gabbard is probably being kept out of the loop. Only a handful including Trump, Netanyahu, Rubio and Israeli generals privy to the plans to attack Iran. The ground work is almost done. They would like to manufacture a pretext if possible.
I don't think so. You don't attack/invade a foreign country by keeping your Director of National Intelligence out of the loop. Maybe she doesn't participate in the decision-making, but she's certainly in the loop.
Director of NATIONAL Intelligence. That means sifting through yottabytes of private citizen data to suss out Palestinian sympathisers on US college campuses; not anything foreign.
Why bother knowing what's going on in foreign countries when there are so many "enemies of the State" to be identified among your citizenry ?
Sure. But isn't the CIA also her purview?
Oh ! I really don't know. Probably yes ? For her sake (if she cares) I'd hope not…the CIA has a very short list of successes and a considerable roster of dodgey or outright weird projects that today would NEVER escape Musk's DOGE axe.
It's my understanding that she coordinates all intelligence agencies. And she also does the daily presidential brief with input from the CIA and other agencies. There's a reason Trump put her in that position, he was burned by the CIA and the deep state during his first term.
I do not believe she will b.s. him, but I do feel she will be just as lapdog as his other picks, and underline his initiatives.
Like this, for example.
Yeah, I think you’re on the money. I think the whole point of placing her in that position was to control the CIA. Now if they want to bullshit him on Russia or some other topic (like they much have been doing in his first presidency), they’ll have to go through her first.
If we can figure it out and she can’t, that would make her stupidest person on Earth.
When voting someone down, let us know why, so we can all be better educated…
I voted ED up because of his sound logic, as always!….
It’s pretty clear this is a Trump cultist.
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Only 46,500? I bet she's about to get a raise.
idiocracy
meets universe 25
wrapped in a flag
of 1984
as we all
party heartily
aboard the titanic
as we spin spin spin
faster and faster
down the drain
of our self-created
demise
and those on shore
clap and wave
"Our country and other countries should not be" complicit in Israel's illegal occupation and genocide.
Another soul sold for Prosperity.
"Our country and other countries should not be in a position to reroute commerce going through that area simply because of the threat that exists."
I was given to understand that the Houthinese were only targeting commercial vessels that were a) Israeli and/or b) en route to deliver cargo to Israeli ports.
That everything else commercial (EU to India, for example) was not considered a legitimate target for attack ?
So where does Tulsi Oklahoma get off suggesting everything near to Yemeni'i territorial waters was under dire threat ?
Unless insurance underwriters flagged all of the Gulf of Aden as "high risk" in order to jack premiums – something entirely in line with the scam-fest that is Insurance Companies ?
"I was given to understand that the Houthinese were only targeting commercial vessels that were a) Israeli and/or b) en route to deliver cargo to Israeli ports." That is not true. Google the list of ships attacked by the Houthis and you will see most of ships that were attacked were not heading to Israel.
She doesn’t like “regime change” wars. But she is perfectly ok to be Islamophobic and want to bomb them to the Stone Age.
Tulsi has always celebrated killing anyone Islamic. Bombing Yemen is right on target for her, stopping Israel from killing Islamic families is not an option for her.
It is why she was nominated.
Well she did one day oppose the genocidal campaign of the US-Saudi axis in Yemen.
She said in 2018. She was one day in the camp of Bernie Sanders. Then she went with Biden. And then she went with Trump. And now, the one day anti-neocon critic morphed into a neocon and while at it more than most of them.
She maintained one of the main reasons she jumped off the Biden and on the Trump bandwagon because she wanted to prevent a nuclear war. Well, yes she says things.
So let us not act too surprised to hear Gabbard advocating for nuclear strikes on Yemen, Iran or Syria, or wherever there are moslems to kill for her satisfaction, soon enough.
The most charitable interpretation to say of her is that she became to the fullest extent possible what she once most hated. Because if that is not the case then she has always been an abominable human being.
Bullies for a nefarious cause https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/10aba6245d75d1a7205687ad15b92b05d42e525db803694b15d3818369410d9e.jpg is completely the opposite of what i teach my sons…
It would be unamerican to do otherwise..
Tulsi Gabbard’s friendship with PM Modi of India should have been the giveaway. Modi’s party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has always had an anti-Muslim agenda. In India, the left considers him a fascist. It’s no coincidence that Gabbard claims to admire him, and compares him favorably to Trump as “strongmen.” Gabbard fooled the liberals, but she didn’t fool Trump. He knew a fellow traveler when he saw one. Don’t count on Gabbard to bring any sanity or honesty to the intelligence services. And for those still hoping Trump will end wars and restore sanity to our foreign policy, well, just look around and see who he surrounds himself with and from whom he takes money…lots of money.
I did in 2016, it was obvious even then that he was no peace president, but a good actor, bloviator, snake oil salesman and con.
And Modi supports Netanyahu and his actions against the Palestinians.
Well, if the purpose is to keep international shipping safe, is this really a crazy suggestion?
Your naïvety is charming.
Wow! So you are totally OK with thousands, millions of people being killed so that your golden stuff for your house is available on shelves?
Yes.
The fake mask has fallen.
Trying to get everyone in the World to join in on worshiping and helping the greater Israel project.
That's their aim. But according to the Old Testament bible worshipers like Huckabee the majority of the world will be against Israel (and he includes the US in that) but that god will punish all the world and Israel (and of course US) will be triumphant. They are riding high now with Trump on top.
I guess most Evangelicals never heard of the New Testament other than that Jesus is a nice guy who will forgive all sins and died for them. That's as far as they go with the NT.
i really like proverb 25:21,22
and im an atheist but this is really really good
For the bible ignorant, what does it say?
If your enemy is hungry give them a bite to eat, if your enemy is thristy,give them a drink,by doing so, you will “heap coals of fire on their head”
You forgot the Book of Revelation in the NT. They REALLY like that one. 🙂
They've only been revising the interpretation for about a millenium or so.
There’s a great Ted koppel (sp?) very old interview with Mandela. One quote which I will butcher in paraphrase was “Your enemies are not our enemies”.
The reactions are priceless.
Here it is. Some of his quotes are in the comments:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i5TiUhhm7cQ
America = bull
World = china shop
In a year of two it'll be :
America = bull
China = china shop
She is now a traitor of her own conscious…!
Most are once they get into more important positions in government. That's why voting really no longer reflects the will of the people. Those men and women change their spots the minute they arrive in Washington DC where all the goodies are available if you just play the game. Gabbard is not alone.
Anti-war dot com is attacking a pro-war person, Gabbard, which is laudatory.
“Tulsi Gabbard reverses her once-strong opposition to Washington's 'genocidal' war on Yemen, calls on other countries to support Trump's military assault on the country.”
Another example of the fact that ‘power corrupts’. This sort of flip-flop shows that her expressed positions were never based on a personal ethic. Just another war-mongering expedient opportunist.
Very disappointed by her actions today. I was an avid supporter. Acton was correct when he had this, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton
Dec 8, 2016 Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Introduces Bill to Stop Arming Terrorists
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Psycho Tulsi Bully
Like a flatulent bully
in any schoolyard
let us gather together
pick on
torture tease abuse
the poor brown one
Cmon everyone
lets have some fun
its easy
its ordained
we have the blessing
of everyone
who matter
Do not hesitate
better not falter
do as we say
or you'll be next
the abyss
always needs
a victim to torment
Remember
god is on our side
they are evil anyway
so they deserve
hell on earth
the chosen are on our side
we are the city on the hill
charge…
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If she says that because someone has a dirt on her, it’s understandable yet still disappointing. However if she really means attacking Yemen by her own free will, it’s even sadder. Trump was never a true candidate for peace, everyone with basic understanding of geopolitics knew that, But tulsi???
She works for the orange clown who is a Zionist boot licker and must follow the leader.
For someone long percieved as an anti-belligerent, Ms Gabbard doesn't walk that walk no more. Too bad, she had so much potential.
She very briefly and partially tried to position herself as “anti-belligerent” when that looked like a beneficial public relations strategy, but she was never very believable or convincing to those who paid attention.
Is she nuts? Trump puts tariffs on other countries and she wants them to spend money on the USA vs Yemen war. Who would do that?
Who is putting pressure on Tulsi?
A friend who worked with the U.S. "Military" warned me about her well over five years ago. She is not what she appears to be.