
Why I am running against Ilhan Omar: America as we know it will cease to exist
NY Post
I was a young journalist when I immigrated to the U.S. in 1993.
Growing up in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, the idea that I would one day run for office in America never occurred to me.
But I took my oath of U.S. citizenship seriously, which also meant becoming part of America’s rich cultural fabric and giving back to the country I am lucky to call home.
I moved to Minneapolis from Washington, DC in 2019 and I fell in love with the Twin Cities.
You would be hard-pressed to find more open, friendly, and hopeful people.
And yet, most Minnesotans would tell you that Minneapolis was in decline long before the COVID-19 lockdown and the George Floyd riots that engulfed the city in 2020.

Imagine if Allied intelligence had located Adolf Hitler in late May 1944 and killed him before the Normandy invasion. Imagine that in the same hour, strikes eliminated Hitler’s designated successor, the head of the German Armed Forces High Command, the chief operational planner of the war effort, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, responsible for defending Western Europe, and the rest of Germany’s field marshals and senior commanders.












