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BLUNT ASSESSMENT. Presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard participated in the Tuesday night debate after briefly considering a boycott to protest what she believed was a rigged process for deciding on who’s in and who’s out.>> Download the FREE WMUR appGabbard is a 16-year military veteran who has been deployed to Iraq and other Middle East nations and a member of the House Armed Services Committee. She decided to be on on the debate stage, after all, and at one point tried to ask frontrunner Elizabeth Warren to explain her qualifications to be commander-in-chief of the nation’s military forces.“I’m sorry,” said moderator Erin Burnett of CNN. “Thank you. We’re going to take another break now.”On Wednesday morning, Vridavan Gabbard tweeted from her sister’s account, “Surprise. CNN cuts off Tulsi to protect Warren.”When Tulsi Gabbard returned to New Hampshire a few hours later for her third visit in three weeks, she spoke to WMUR in an interview.“She wants to be commander-in-chief, Gabbard said of Warren. “I wanted to hear from her what background and experience in foreign policy and national security she brings. To be able to walk in on day one and bring that important responsibility that the president has.“You saw at one point when I raised the issue about the experience and background in national security and foreign policy necessary to serve as commander-in-chief, the moderators quickly cut to a commercial break, saying ‘OK, the issues of war and peace, sorry, got to go to a commercial break.’“The ratings and profits are actually more important than actually allowing voters to hear from the candidates about these issues of great importance,” Gabbard said.Why did she decide not to boycott the debate?“You know I heard from a lot of our supporters. A lot of those who worked really, really hard asking friends, family and co-workers to contribute to our campaign so I could be on that debate stage. We have nearly 200,000 donors and so I really went for them. I didn’t want to let them down.“But I’ve got to say, I really hated it -- except for the very end when, I actually had the opportunity to speak directly, uninterrupted to folks at home.What did she hate about it?“It was the confrontational approach to this whole debate, that it really was like a reality television, entertainment scenario set up by the DNC (Democratic National Committee) and the corporate media, really doing a disservice.”