Omar-Dems-Media
Side with Iran Against Trump’s War on Terror
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By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz January 3, 2020 , 1:55 pm
“Ah, Those who call evil good And good evil;
Who present darkness as light And light as darkness; Who present bitter as
sweet And sweet as bitter!” Isaiah 5:20 (The Israel Bible™)
Washington DC / USA – July 25 2019: Rep. Ilhan Omar
(D-MN) participates in a press conference with House Democrats commemorating
the first 200 days of the 115th Congress on Thursday July 25, 2019 – Image:
Shutterstock
Critics of President Trump lined up to decry his recent
order that eliminated one of the greatest threats to the U.S.; an Iranian
general with American and Israeli blood on his hands.
On Friday, the U.S. military carried out a drone attack
that killed Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force, a
U.S. designated terrorist organization, and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi
al-Muhandis were the two terrorist leaders who were killed. The elimination of
Soleimani was generally lauded as the greatest blow to global terrorism since
Osama Bin Laden was killed with some experts saying Soleimani embodied an even
greater threat. By eliminating Soleimani as well as the Islamic State and its
leader Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi, Trump should be lauded as a superhero in the
battle against evil. But not everyone sees it that way.
Of course, Rep. Ilhan Omar (Dem-Minn) was quick to
criticize the Presidential initiative that eliminated an Islamist threat.
Omar’s theory is that Trump used the attack on Soleimani
to deflect public attention away from the impeachment process. It should be
noted that the impeachment has stalled since Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
refused to submit the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
The Daily Wire published
an article chronicling Omar’s long history of supporting terrorists and
decrying the battle against terrorism. In 2016, Omar advocated for leniency for
nine men who were charged with trying to join the Islamic State (ISIS). In
March, Omar one of only two state legislators who voted against a
bill that would allow insurance companies to block payouts to the relatives of
terrorists. Omar had planned on meeting with heads of terrorist organizations
on her junket to “Palestine” last summer but Israel denied her visa. In
April, Omar demanded that President Trump push for the release of a senior
member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Hoda Abdelmonem from an Egyptian
prison.
Rep. Chris Murphy (Dem-Conn) criticized Trump while
perfecting the art of talking out of both sides of his mouth. After the attack
on the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday (but before the military response), Murphy
criticized Trump for his inaction.
Yet when Trump did order a stiff response which included
deploying Marines directly into the embassy and attack helicopters patrolling
overhead, Murphy questioned whether Trump had the authority to order such
action.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi echoed those
sentiments, questioning the president’s authority while warning that responding
to terror puts “the lives of American service members, diplomats and
others further at risk.”
“Tonight’s airstrike risks provoking further dangerous
escalation of violence. America – and the world – cannot afford to have
tensions escalate to the point of no return,’ Pelosi said in a statement. “The Administration has conducted
tonight’s strikes in Iraq targeting high-level Iranian military officials and
killing Iranian Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani without an Authorization
for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Iran. Further, this action was
taken without the consultation of the Congress.”
It should be noted that the Pentagon justified the strike
against Soleimani by saying he “was actively developing plans to attack
American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.”
The media was no better, choosing to support the Iranians
rather than the president. The New York Times, a formerly prominent and
reliable news source, posted a tweet describing the rioters that stormed the
U.S. Embassy as “Iraqi mourners.” The article reported that the crowds arrived
at the embassy from funerals for Iraqis killed in “deadly American
airstrikes.”
After a storm of criticism, the article was amended and
currently describes the Iran-backed militias as “protesters.”
Emma Vigeland, a writer for the left-wing Young Turks
Network, decried the killing of Soleimani, saying that the Iranian general’s
actions that killed Americans were “more legitimate.”
Rania Khalek, a Lebanese American left-wing journalist,
suggested that Israel may be to blame for killing Soleimani, who she described
as “Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Captain America all in one.”
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