She can’t get her facts straight.
“Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) attempted to diss America on X, but it backfired when she got “community-noted” for spreading misinformation.
“Iraq was attacked by the US during Ramadan and it is sickening to know that the US is again going to attack Iran during Ramadan,” she screeched Thursday night, as a US strike on Iran looked increasingly possible.
“The US apparently loves to strike Muslim countries during Ramadan and I am convinced it isn’t what these countries have done to violate international law but about who they worship,” she went on, trying to characterize the Iraq War as an act of Muslim hate.
Users quickly pointed out that the US invasion of Iraq, during President George W. Bush’s administration, began on March 20, 2003 — a whole seven months before the Islamic holy month that year.
And President George H.W. Bush’s Operation Desert Storm — a bombing campaign against Iraq that began on Jan. 17, 1991 — started two months before Ramadan that year and successfully liberated the Islamic nation of Kuwait.
“Claiming America ‘chooses Ramadan to attack Muslims’ is not advocacy, it is a deliberate lie meant to inflame anger and divide Americans,” slammed Dalia al-Aqidi, a Muslim Iraqi-American running against Omar for her House seat in the midterms.
It’s not the first time the Minnesota Congresswoman played fast and loose with facts.
Earlier this year, when confronted in the halls of Capitol Hill about the $9 billion social services fraud that unfolded in her district, a smug Omar conflated annual federal funding with the amount investigators say was stolen over nearly a decade.
“Your brain has told you that it is possible for half of the resources for our public service to have disappeared? Listen to yourself,” she berated a female reporter.
And when she took to TikTok last fall to respond to mounting questions about how her family’s declared wealth went from nearly nothing to up to $30 million in a year, she blamed reporters for misreading her financial disclosure, saying the value listed for her husband’s business reflected the company’s total worth rather than just his ownership stake — even though that’s not how the forms work.
“Learn to read before you post misleading s–t,” she raged.
Omar’s latest diss attempt came as the State Department told US Embassy workers in Israel to leave the region Friday “while commercial flights are available,” in an indication the airspace may be closed due to strikes or anticipated retaliatory action from the Islamic Republic in Iran.
Earlier this week, the US Embassy in Beirut also pulled its staff amid the tensions.
President Trump moved more military might to the Middle East after talks between Washington and Islamic Republic leaders Thursday in Geneva failed to make progress on a nuclear deal.
