Posted on 10/30/2022 2:34:45 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
“Both parties are for war, so what difference does it make?” one protester asked the congresswoman, to which she replied claiming to be “anti-war” and suggesting the man vote for independent candidates if he is displeased with the two-party system.
“$80 billion to Ukraine is not anti-war,” the protester replied, before accusing Ukraine of “killing its own citizens.”
“You’re pressing the big red button” the protester interrupted.
Omar began to shout at the man about “millions of Ukrainians that have been displaced” and “piles of bodies that are being found in mass graves.”
“There are little children whose lives are being lost,” she continued to shout. “You can sit here and talk, but unless you are someone like me that has been that child, you do not get to tell me what my votes mean and how I get to vote in supporting people who desperately need support right now.”
Omar attempted to call on another town hall attendee, but the protester interrupted, yelling, “The United States started this war.”
“It is sad and dangerous for you to a say a war that has been waged by Russia was started by the U.S.,” she replied, later telling the man, “I hope that you find the help that you need.”
Omar is not the only “squad” member to receive backlash for sending money to Ukraine — much of which, research has noted, is ending up in the hands of highly powerful and well-connected Defense Department contractors such as Raytheon Technologies.
Two constituents confronted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in mid-October for voting to send billions
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Congress has so far appropriated $65 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine since the conflict between Russia and the embattled nation began. Congress as recently as September allocated $12 billion in aid to Ukraine in a stopgap spending bill to continue funding the government through December. NBC News reported last week that Congress is now pursuing a roughly $50 billion Ukraine aid package.
Just to put in perspective.
Russian Military Budget for 2021: $65.9 billion
Russian Military Budget for 2022: $77.7 billion
I thought about attending this meeting, until I learned that you had to register in advance, on line to attend.
No thanks.
But funny how all the usual Democrat John Lennon "give peace a chance" operatives have disappeared from the scene. Evidently their convictions were as empty as an oil drum.
One of her two husbands should step forward to protect her.
Guess that’s sexist and old fashioned.
Daily Mail story:
EXCLUSIVE: Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would ‘do what she had to do to get him “papers” to keep him in U.S.’, reveals Somali community leader.
Ilhan Omar told friends years ago that the man who went on to become her second husband was in fact her brother, DailyMail.com can confirm
Abdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States.
It has long been rumored that Omar and Ahmed Elmi are siblings, but because of a lack of paperwork in war-torn Somalia, proof has never been uncovered.
Osman said: ‘She said she needed to get papers for her brother to go to school. We all thought she was just getting papers to allow him to stay in this country’
Omar was married to her second husband Elmi in 2009 by a Christian minister - although she is Muslim
She was first married to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002 in a Muslim ceremony, before they split in 2008 - but she later had another child with Hirsi while legally wed to Elmi.
Osman said: ‘When [Hirsi] and Ilhan got married, a lot of people were invited. It was a big Islamic wedding uniting two large clans in the community’
He added: ‘When she married Elmi, no one even knew about it... No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the certificate years later’
By MARTIN GOULD IN MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 13:26 EDT, 20 February 2020 | UPDATED: 14:14 EDT, 10 March 2020
I remember seeing a girl with a “stop the war” sign next to a freeway on ramp during the Bush years. When Obozo came in, I never saw her again. Another useful idiot.
At least 60% of Omar’s district are white Leftists. Being their pet Islamic terrorist only goes so far.
White affluent liberals love sending money to Ukraine. They’re still flying blue and yellow flags on their stoops.
One notes of what “Congress has so far appropriated $65 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine” that much of the spending goes to and increased the military suppliers’ contracts, thereby also increasing our American war budget. Calling it defense does not make it defense, any more than asserting we have won any wars in the last several decades is a truth.
If one were to "degrow government," the trillions in war spending would be a fine place to start. As one may easily research, "The total FY2022 defense budget request, including the Department of Energy, is $753 billion, up $12 billion from FY2021's budget request."
Lloyd "Ratheon" Austin seems not so much different than Dick "Halliburton" Cheney, whose daughter has had some recent "fame...."
yeah, they disappeared during the Obama administration too. During Bush, it was protests all the time in DC...then magically went poof.
Biden - the Liberal version of George Bush.
THAT was interesting.
An immediate audit is called for...from the new Congress.
Omar is in because of her bank account
“ $80 billion to Ukraine is not anti-war”
I figured that out about 40 billion dollars ago
It’s the bottomless money pit of war without anyone responsible looking for a peaceful solution because they don’t want peace
I think the Ukraine war funding to eventually start WW3 is up to about $100 billion (and climbing).
Yep along with all the pinkos.
OMAR was NEVER a child in Ukraine.....
In terms of spending it is costing the United States a comparable amount for its proxy war against Russia as the annual per country costs of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pretty amazing all this money with not a single US soldier fighting in the theatre.
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