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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/abrar-omeish-battle-of-iwo-jima-calls-it-evil-fairfax-county-school-board-member-virginia-japanese-day-of-remembrance-history-us-marines-condeming-parents-association

The spin in her response to WJLA is quite the achievement.  What she says has almost nothing to do with the remarks she made at the SB meeting.  [/quote]

Absolutely everything she said in her response was true. And anyone with basic historical knowledge knew that. Also, in her original comment she never says America is evil. She talks about evils of humans and also references the Holocaust. You guys are really stretching[/quote]

The irony is that one of the local Republicans basically told Omeish after the fact what she could have said, instead of what she originally said, if she was trying to make any sense and she essentially adopted his wording.  It’s a sad state of affairs when a Democrat on the SB needs a Republican spin doctor to rescue her from her own word salad. [/quote]

That's your defense of her?   That a Republican told her that?  This is not a partisan issue.

The issue is--what was her point?  Seems to me it was to attack the US.  Her "correction" did not help.

The fact about Iwo Jima is that it was an awful battle.  In hindsight, it was, perhaps, unnecessary.  I think it doubtful that any leaders would have chosen to fight that battle had they not believed it necessary at the time.  Generals do not like to lose their soldiers or Marines.  Admirals don't want to lose their sailors.

The internment of the Japanese here was wrong.  That has been acknowledged, and I don't think anyone is trying to excuse that.  Why she could not have leff it at that, is a puzzlement.  Her past statements lead one to think that she is not fond of the United States.

She is in law school.  I hope she does not aspire to be a trial lawyer.  I cannot imagine that juries or judges would respond well to her arguments.

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Read more carefully.  It was not a "defense."  It was an illustration of how she frequently ends up scrambling to explain away her ill-advised remarks.

Given how long SB meetings tend to be, members should err on the side of saying less, not more, when they aren't sure what they're talking about.  [/quote]

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