Thread by @caitoz

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions You are a lying, bootlicking war propagandist, Josh. You are mentioned by name here:
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@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions Rogin begins his outrageous smear by highlighting the fact that Gabbard visited the Syrian opposition, somehow spinning that as making her MORE pro-Assad instead of less, and absurdly implies that her meeting with Assad is something she brings up herself, "on the campaign trail".

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions That is literally exactly what happened. The US armed extremist factions to advance the premeditated agenda of regime change in Syria. This is a known and extensively documented fact.
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@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions This has literally never happened. Try to find quotes of Gabbard "defending the Assad regime". They don't exist. Arguing that US regime change wars are consistently disastrous is neither defending anyone nor propaganda; it's just a fact.
More info: nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions Rogin calls dissent from the CIA/CNN Syria narrative "un-American", which is just a straightforward admission that he is authoring propaganda. In the same paragraph he admits that his objection is actually "strategic" one, because regime change wars advance a strategic agenda.

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions Rogin just outright lies here. Here's a link to an archive of his article so you can click his "be praised" hyperlink without subscribing to WaPo: archive.is/xOk3C
You will instantly see that nowhere is she praising "airstrikes on civilians". It's a top-to-bottom lie.

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions Here is the tweet @joshrogin falsely claims features @TulsiGabbard praising "airstrikes on civilians". He's just objectively, outright lying to your face.

https://twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status/649458891168714752

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions Rogin falsely implies that Gabbard only just began criticizing Assad in response to the Harris smear and that this is a new change from her "previous" position. This is another lie. See: archive.is/DsIhX#selectio…

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions Rogin falsely claims that Gabbard is wrong when she says the Trump administration has been protecting Al-Qaeda in Idlib. Idlib is a known Al-Qaeda stronghold, and this administration has pushed to protect it from recapture by the Assad coalition.
See: edition.cnn.com/2018/09/03/pol…

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions This is just Rogin whining that Gabbard criticized US regime change interventionism. US regime change interventionism is consistently disastrous, and the US and its allies did indeed flood the region with heavily armed extremists.
See: theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-a…

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions More info on the involvement of the US and its allies arming extremist militants in Syria from the very beginning of the 2011 conflict:
zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-2…

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions This narrative, promoted aggressively by Rogin from the very beginning, has been denied by all parties involved.
See: stateofthenation2012.com/?p=65308
See also: facebook.com/denniskucinich…

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions After conceding earlier in the smear that this is about America's "strategic path", Rogin again insults everyone's intelligence with a quote claiming that US interest in Syrian interventionism is motivated by humanitarianism.

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions That's because it is. Here's an article I wrote a while back compiling five primary sources documenting the US-centralized empire's decades-spanning plans to determine who rules Syria by provoking the exact destabilization we've seen in that country:
medium.com/@caityjohnston…

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions This, again, never happened. Rogin claims that it's possible to oppose warmongering without defending Assad, and there is not one shred of documentation anywhere of her doing so. She's doing exactly the thing he falsely claims to support.
See:

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1156926519438188545

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions Rogin concludes with a tacit admission that he's not so much concerned with the remote possibility of Gabbard becoming president as he is with her disrupting the narrative control of his fellow war propagandists. Here's an archived link of his smear: archive.is/xOk3C

@joshrogin @TulsiGabbard @PostOpinions

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