Chicago, Jan. 28 -- Tulsi Gabbard has been at the centre of a smear campaign against her even before she announced her run for the 2020 presidential elections. The former two-term Democratic Party Congresswoman from Hawaii and a Vice Chairperson of the Democratic National Committee, the DNC, has been a consistent anti-war campaigner where futile wars not involving US interests are concerned, for she understands war, having been in conflict zones herself. She was derided as "Assad's Toady" by a former New York Times journalist for meeting now-deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad on a fact-finding mission in early 2017. In other words, those who seek to find the facts are acting as "toadies" of those they are checking up on. Was that why...