Some Things Are Worth Fighting for -- the US Military, the Southern Border, President Trump -- But Ilhan Omar and Somalia are not "Some" of Those Things

SOME THINGS ARE WORTH FIGHTING AND DYING FOR. Somalia is not one of them. • Ilhan Omar is Somali, born on October 4, 1981, in Mogadishu. Omar spent her early years in Baidoa, Somalia. She was the youngest of seven siblings. Her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, an ethnic Somali, worked as a teacher trainer. Her mother, Fadhuma Abukar Haji Hussein, a Benadiri (a community of partial Yemeni descent), died when Omar was two, and she was raised by her father and grandfather. Her grandfather, Abukar, was the director of Somalia's National Marine Transport, with her uncles and aunts also working as civil servants and educators. Ilhan Omar and her family escaped the war in Somalia by fleeing the country and spending four years in a Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa County, Kenya, near the Somali border. Omar entered the United States in 1992. She was 11 years old. After arriving in New York, her family settled in Arlington, Virginia. Her family sought asylum in the US in 1995 when Ilhan Omar was 14, and they moved to Minneapolis. Omar's father worked initially as a taxi driver, later as a postal office worker. He and Omar's grandfather emphasized during her upbringing the importance of democracy, and she accompanied her grandfather to caucus meetings at age 14, serving as his interpreter. Omar became a US citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old. Ilhan Omar attended Edison High School and volunteered there as a student organizer. She graduated from North Dakota State University[17] with bachelor's degrees in political science and international studies in 2011. Omar was then a Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. • • • BLACK HAWK DOWN. The New York Post reported on Tuesday that : "Freshman US Representative Ilhan Omar came under fire once again on Monday for allegedly exaggerating the number of Somalis killed during the 1993 military operation that inspired the film 'Black Hawk Down,' according to a report. The controversial Minnesota lawmaker claimed that 'thousands' died in the Battle of Mogadishu -- though most reputable sources put the contested body count much lower, according a report by the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Omar made the claim in a 2017 Twitter thread about terror attacks in Somalia when she wrote the tweet, which the Project dug up Monday. 'In his selective memory, he forgets to also mention the thousands of Somalis killed by the American forces that day! #NotTodaySatan,' Omar wrote in response to a Twitter user’s lament that 19 US service members were killed and 73 injured in the battle. • Estimates of how many Somalis were killed in the fighting vary, says the NY Post, "with some as low as 133 and others closer to 1,000 -- but none as high as 'thousands,' Fox News reported. Critics -- including veterans involved in the battle -- pounced on the congresswoman, who is a Somali refugee and one of the first Moslem women elected to Congress. 'Our forces, being vastly outnumbered, fought to save their own lives. All the Somali militia had to do was walk away, but they persisted,' retired Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant, who was shot down in Mogadishu on Oct. 3, 1993, and held captive by a Somali militia, told the Investigative Project. 'I’m particularly offended as an American and as a Moslem that nobody is holding her accountable for these radical views that really view our soldiers as the problem rather than the solution,' Navy physician and American Islamic Forum for Democracy president Zuhdi Jasser told the outlet. Omar has sparked controversy with a number of her statements in her first months as a congresswoman....Most recently, Omar described the 9/11 terror attack as 'some people did something,' prompting a strong backlash from conservatives." • On Tuesday, Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson invited Sergeant Major Kyle E. Lamb (retired) to talk about the Minnesota’s Democrat Ilhan Omar’s resurfaced tweet claiming US forces killed “thousands” of Somalis during the “Black Hawk Down” mission in Mogadishu. Lamb said the tweet was, at the least, “kind of disturbing. First of all, she wasn’t there, she had already left the country. We were there, and I’ve never heard numbers quite that inflated. I mean, we wish we could have done that much damage, but that didn’t happen as far as I know." Lamb fought in the Battle of Mogadishu. Tucker Carlson said : "It seems like the mission was purely altruistic. We were only there to help, we didn’t take Somalia. Did you steal gold or natural resources when you were there?” Carlson asked Lamb, who laughed at the idea. "We didn’t do that. We were trying to take out a clan leader that had taken over the town,” Lamb replied, explaining how the clan was taking the humanitarian aid being directed to the people of that town while “running drugs” and weapons. “He needed to be eliminated, so that we could get peace back in that town. We were actually there to help some of the lesser tribes, the lesser clans, such as her clan, which obviously they were already gone.” Lamb, a 21-year military veteran who spent 19 of those years in Special Operations and over 15 of the years in the military’s elite Delta Force, said US forces “were there to try to do the right thing. We didn’t say ‘Hey, let’s pick out Somalia, it's a great place to go hang out.’ The President at the time, President Clinton, said this is where we are going, this is the mission, and our commander said ‘Roger that, we can do it,’ and we all had signed on the line. That is why we served. You can make a difference when you go to those countries.” Carlson asked his guest about Omar’s seeming ungratefulness and why, after being accepted into the US as a refugee when she was a child, has “spent the rest of her life attacking this country.” Lamb answered : "As they would say down here in Tennessee, bless her heart.” Lamb then gave the Democrat congresswoman a scathing dose of reality ! “We want her to understand that she is living large now because of her family being able to escape the atrocities of Mogadishu. It’s very disturbing. We watched our friends get drug through the streets by the people she says are her people. We got to watch that on TV. Yeah, we take it personal when you attack us like that. Once again, it is not surprising to hear that. There has been kind of a long list of things she said, I don’t know if she meant them or not, but she continues to say them. Yeah, I feel bad for her.” Lamb noted that families who lost loved ones in the battle don’t need Omar’s remarks to remind them of “what they deal with every day. Whenever they go to a baseball game and they hear the national anthem, they look at the flag, that dad is not there with his kids. That’s a story, not just from Somalia, but all the other conflicts I have been in, and that I haven’t been in, that is the story of a soldier. That is what we deal with on a daily basis. Yeah, it is the soldier’s story from the last 10,000 years." Earlier, in a Federalist op-ed, Lamb wrote : "I am thankful Omar and her family and countless others were able to escape to neighboring Kenya while we fought to protect those left behind, but I simply cannot comprehend her attitude towards those of us who fought to protect her country and countrymen from warlords who plunged Somalia only further into violence and starvation. I am glad that Omar can now enjoy the very freedoms we fought to protect, like the freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion affirmed in the US Constitution, but I don’t understand why she uses those freedoms to slur the men and women of the US military who made her security and liberty a reality. The simple truth is that Omar enjoys the fruits of American combat deaths, yet she can’t even bring herself to acknowledge the ultimate sacrifice that was made on her behalf, either as a Somali or an American,” Lamb wrote, adding that, although he didn’t blame her for leaving the country then, he did hold her accountable for “smearing American servicemen because we answered the call of our nation to address the violent barbarism of hers.” • Yes, some things are worth fighting and dying for. I watch Black Hawk Down every year or so. It isn't entertainment. It is the gritty truth told about young American soldiers who go where they are told to go, who suffer trauma both physical and mental, who are injured, who are captured and tortured, who die. No member of Congress deserves the title or the honor of being called a representative of America if they belittle the contribution of the US military to world order and peace and to saving the lives of people who are preyed upon by their own countrymen. That includes Ilhan Omar. When will the Democrat Party step up and deal with her smears on America? • • • IMPEACHING PRESIDENT TRUMP. Some things are worth fighting against. Newsmax reported on Wednesday that President Trump says he'll go directly to the US Supreme Court "if the partisan Dems" ever try to impeach him. On Wednesday, President Trump tweeted : "I DID NOTHING WRONG...not only are there no 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors,' one of the bases for impeachment outlined in the US Constitution, 'there are no Crimes by me at all." The President, according to the Newsmax wording, "ALLEGES Democrats committed crimes" and he says they're looking 'to Congress as last hope!" because "We waited for Mueller and WON." • President Trump's strategy, says Newsmax, "could run into a roadblock: the high court itself, which said in 1993 that the framers of the Constitution didn't intend for the Court to have the power to review impeachment proceedings. The Supreme Court ruled that impeachment and removal from office is Congress' duty alone. The Constitution lays the 'sole power' of impeachment before the House of Representatives and the Senate." • Democrats, who control the House, are divided over the issue of impeachment, but have opened new investigations into the presidency, some say with the goal of provoking a constitutional crisis about congressional oversight. Newsmax reported that : "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat leaders have remained cautious over impeaching Trump ahead of the 2020 presidential election while others in the party's more liberal wing have demanded such proceedings begin." • The President string of tweets continued : "The Mueller Report, despite being written by Angry Democrats and Trump Haters, and with unlimited money behind it ($35,000,000), didn’t lay a glove on me. I DID NOTHING WRONG. If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the US Supreme Court. Not only….are there no 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors,' there are no Crimes by me at all. All of the Crimes were committed by Crooked Hillary, the Dems, the DNC and Dirty Cops -- and we caught them in the act! We waited for Mueller and WON, so now the Dems look to Congress as last hope!' President Trump told the Washington Post : "I allowed my lawyers and all the people to go and testify to Mueller -- and you know how I feel about that whole group of people that did the Mueller report. I was so transparent; they testified for so many hours. They have all of that information that’s been given.” He tweeted Wednesday about how transparent he had been while Mueller’s investigation went on : "No Collusion, No Obstruction -- there has NEVER been a President who has been more transparent. Millions of pages of documents were given to the Mueller Angry Dems, plus I allowed everyone to testify, including W.H. counsel. I didn’t have to do this, but now they want more…" • President Trump has taken more than enough abuse from the corrupt Democrat Party and its henchmen. It is time to stand up and fight. • • • THE SOUTHERN BORDER. The President also warned the Mexican government Wednesday following an April 13 confrontation between members of Mexico’s military and American National Guardsmen, announcing that he is sending “armed soldiers” to the border in response/ He tweeted : “Mexico’s Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably as a diversionary tactic for drug smugglers on the Border. Better not happen again! We are now sending ARMED SOLDIERS to the Border. Mexico is not doing nearly enough in apprehending & returning!" • The Department of Defense’s Northern Command is still reportedly investigating the incident which took place at a remote border area in Texas when the Mexican soldiers believed the Americans had crossed the border into Mexico. A US Northern Command statement reads : "Five to six Mexican military personnel questioned two US Army soldiers. Mexican soldiers pointed their rifles at the Americans and took a pistol from one of the US soldiers and placed it in the US vehicle.” The Us soldiers were near Clint, Texas, in US territory. The statement said : "“After a brief discussion between the soldiers from the two nations, the Mexican military members departed the area. The US soldiers immediately contacted CBP, who responded quickly. Throughout the incident, the US soldiers followed all established procedures and protocols.” • In another tweet, President Trump praised the “GREAT job Border Patrol and Law Enforcement is doing on our Southern Border....Mexico is doing very little for us....Can anyone comprehend what a GREAT job Border Patrol and Law Enforcement is doing on our Southern Border. So far this year they have APPREHENDED 418,000 plus illegal immigrants, way up from last year. Mexico is doing very little for us. DEMS IN CONGRESS MUST ACT NOW!" • • • DEAR READERS, BlabberBuzz reported on Easter Sunday that "Eric Holder Swings At Trump, Knocks Himself Out." Reporter Carmine Sabia wrote : "Former Attorney General Eric Holder has come out against current Attorney general Bill Barr after the Mueller Report. But what he did not count on was his own words coming back to bite him and look like the hypocrite that he is. 'He’s making mistakes. The attorney general of the United States is the people’s lawyer, not the president’s lawyer,' Holder said of Barr. 'When I was being confirmed, I was made to understand the attorney general of the United States is not the ‘secretary of justice,’ he said. 'You’re different from any other cabinet member, given all the power you have to deprive people of their liberty, take their property away,' he said. 'You have a responsibility to run the Justice Department in a way that is not political,' he said at the 'Justice Demands' Gala of the James B. Moran Center for Youth Advocacy. 'The greatest attorneys general have been the ones who have had that sense of independence, like Elliot Richardson, Nixon’s attorney general and one of my heroes, fired by Nixon for refusing to fire independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox in the wake of Watergate,' Holder said. 'Those greats reminded me that my responsibility was to the Justice Department, to the people of the United States, and if that puts me in conflict with the President, then I should be ready to give up the job,' he said." • When you manage to stop laughing, consider the facts. Holder says that the attorney general is supposed to be independent and not serve as the lawyer of the President of the United States. BUT, we all remember that when Holder was attorney general during former President Obama’s administration, he once told radio host Tomy Joyner : "There’s still work to be done. I’m still the President’s wing man, I’m there with my boy.” Being there with his "boy" meant that he was held in contempt of Congress for protecting President Obama. Eric Holder was the only attorney general ever to be held in contempt of Congress -- not for protecting the southern border, but for sending guns to Mexican drug cartels. Neither Eric Holder nor anyone else in the Obama inner circle is worth fighting for, and, in fact, they are worth pursuing for their illegal actions. • But, President Trump's honor as the innocent prey of a cabal of corrupt and likely criminal FBI and DOJ Deep State Obama-freaks is worth fighting for, all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. • The right and obligation of the attorney general to serve the President is worth fighting for. • AND, the reputation of the US military is worth fighting for -- they fight for America and for Americans every day, whether in some forsaken desolation such as Somalia or on the US southern border.