Rep. Gabbard stresses foreign policy at presidential rally

As Democratic presidential candidate and Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) stressed her opposition to what she saw as America’s “wasteful” war-centric foreign policy at a rally at Durham’s Freedom Café on March 23, she shared a story about the late Republican congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina who started out as “one of the most ardent supporters” for America’s resolution for the “regime-change” war in Iraq in during the early 2000s following 9/11. In 2003, per Gabbard, the congressman attended a funeral for a marine killed in combat and watched as the late soldier’s wife, accompanied by their three kids, read the last letter he sent them. 

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