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Tulsi Gabbard: “The Shia-led government persecuted the Sunnis and created…”

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Tulsi Gabbard discusses US strategy to fight ISIS in Iraq with Wolf Blitzer on CNN

Published May 28, 2015 | Video Starts at 04:56

We've got to look at the motivation. They lack the will to fight because they're fighting for this fictitious … The Shia-led government persecuted the Sunnis and created the situation where ISIS could gain support. … fight to protect their territories and their communities and their families to defeat isis. This again, this fictitious goal of a unified Iraq that this Iraqi army is supposedly supporting. (04:56–05:02)

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Asserts that the Shia-led Iraqi government’s persecution of Sunnis contributed to ISIS's rise.

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“The strategy of supporting the central Iraqi army has proven to have failed.”
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“The Iraqi army lacks the will to fight, evidenced by their actions in Mosul and Ramadi.”
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“The Iraqi army is essentially the army of the central government in Baghdad, not a unified Iraq.”
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“The administration should make the Kurds and the Sunni tribes the primary recipients of military aid.”
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“We need to stop continuing this failed policy of supporting and propping up this central government in Baghdad.”
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“Support this three state solution of empowering the Sunni tribes, empowering the Kurds and the Shias.”
Tulsi Gabbard discusses US strategy to fight ISIS in Iraq with Wolf Blitzer on CNN | Uploaded May 28, 2015 | 07:19-07:27
“By doing this, we can get rid of the oxygen that has allowed ISIS to maintain its stronghold here within this area of Iraq.”
Tulsi Gabbard discusses US strategy to fight ISIS in Iraq with Wolf Blitzer on CNN | Uploaded May 28, 2015 | 07:36-07:45
“Iraq was created not by the people who live there, not by the Kurds, not by the Sunni tribes of the Shias, created by these outside…”
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“The U.S. needs to step up its airstrike campaign against ISIS.”
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“The United States supporting this central government in Baghdad previously led by Maliki, now continuing here with Abadi, it continues this…”
Tulsi Gabbard discusses US strategy to fight ISIS in Iraq with Wolf Blitzer on CNN | Uploaded May 28, 2015 | 08:53-09:06
“We need to provide that primary support to [the Kurds and the Sunni tribes] in order to do that and to push ISIS out and defeat them.”
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