Videoed... How US Senator Thomas Garrett commented on Trump's decision

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This came during a speech delivered by the US Senator Thomas Garrett in a session of the US Congress on December 19 on the decision of US President Donald Trump to withdraw the US troops from northern Syria.

The Senator Garrett has posted a video on his YouTube channel, filming his speech in the Congress.

The text of the Garrett's speech included,

"Please wake me up. I think that I see a nightmare.

What if I told you that in the Middle East, there is a place where Christians, Muslims, Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians and Yazidis, men and women, work together within a democratic process where pluralism and tolerance are the core values ​​of this project, where we have seen security, safety and development being achieved in the country where the most terrible conflicts took palace in our modern era.

What if I told you that a regional state spends $ 10 million a month to spread lies about this tolerant democratic project? What if I told you that the Iranian regime that took the lives of American men and women in Iraq, as well as Putin, al-Assad and Erdogan, the owner of new Ottoman fascist project are celebrating now. Please, wake me up, I think that I see a nightmare.

Recently, I have visited northern Syria and met the brave men and women who sacrificed their children's lives in the areas that most of the Americans may not have heard of in Hajin, Deir ez-Zor, Manbij and Jarabulus and the people who sacrificed their lives to protect the villages of al-Khabur River and al-Jazeera region who were the spear that helped the President Trump to uproot IS terrorist organization.

Today, without warning, we have said to them good luck! The Syrian Democratic Council (MSD) is not Kurdish. Yes, the Kurds may have helped in its establishment, but it includes men and women from different religious and ethnic spectra in northern and eastern Syria.

What we have heard in the Turkish media which is among the worst in terms of media freedom in the world is that PKK is involved in terrorist acts in Turkey, and that whoever connected to this party automatically is a terrorist, and this is of course not true.

When you go to the majority Arab Deir ez-Zor city, you will find that the city's council is Arab. In Manbij, the leadership is of the Arabs too. In al-Jazeera, the leadership includes the Kurds and Christians.

IS has not finished yet. During my staying in northern Syria, 87 people were killed in one day in the battles of Deir ez-Zor. This has not happened for a long time. Therefore, the American withdrawal will strengthen IS.

When Russia, Turkey and Iran celebrate the decision of the withdrawal, it may be a bad decision. Turkey wants to enter Manbij. We saw what Turkey did in Afrin and al-Bab. They raised the Turkish flag over the governmental buildings and changed the names of the streets to glorify the Ottoman sultans. Turkish is imposed on the children. Afrin Hospital, which was written in Arabic and Kurdish, is now written in Turkish.

I do not suggest attacking anyone, but defending the people who thought that we are committed to defend them, and they are now at the risk of being killed."

A.H

ANHA