{"id":303339,"date":"2017-04-12T04:11:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T03:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gabbard-us-mistakes-cause-increased-human-suffering\/"},"modified":"2017-04-12T04:11:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T03:11:24","slug":"gabbard-us-mistakes-cause-increased-human-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gabbard-us-mistakes-cause-increased-human-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabbard: US mistakes cause increased human suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>US Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a critic of her country\u2019s recent missile strike on Syria, has warned that mistakes like the one which plunged the United States into Iraq War would increase \u201chuman suffering\u201d on a large scale.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cWe need to learn from Iraq and Libya \u2014 wars that were propagated as necessary to relieve human suffering, but actually increased human suffering many times over,\u201d Gabbard said in an email to The Hill on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The Democratic representative from the US state of Hawaii noted that officials in the White House are ignoring the lessons of recent history after leaving the country mired in costly Middle Eastern conflicts for more than a decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;I and thousands of my brothers- and sisters-in-arms went to war in Iraq based on false intelligence and lies from our leaders \u2014 our president, military and political leaders. We should have been skeptical then, and we weren\u2019t,\u201d she said. \u201cThe cost was thousands of&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/04\/12\/517699\/Tulsi-Gabbard-Iraq-war-human-suffering\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a critic of her country\u2019s recent missile strike on Syria, has warned that mistakes like the one which plunged the United States into Iraq War would increase \u201chuman suffering\u201d on a large scale. \u201cWe need to learn from Iraq and Libya \u2014 wars that were propagated as necessary to relieve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}