FIGMENTS FOR FACTS

Human rag doll and world underbite champion Kellyanne Conway used a fictitious "massacre" to paint Iraqi immigrants as terrorists and to justify the "Muslim Ban."




Additionally, she repeats the lie that Obama had instituted a 6-month ban on Iraqi refugees. From WaPo:

Obama administration officials told The Post that there was never a point when Iraqi resettlement was stopped or banned. In the aftermath of the arrests of the two Iraqis living in Kentucky, the Obama administration imposed more extensive background checks on Iraqi refugees, and the new screening procedures created a dramatic slowdown in visa approvals.

State Department records show there was a significant drop in refugee arrivals from Iraq in 2011, The Post’s Glenn Kessler reported. There were 18,251 in 2010, 6,339 in 2011 and 16,369 in 2012. One news report said the “pace of visa approvals” had “slowed to a crawl,” indicating some were still being approved.

This Guardian piece adds that Sen. Rand Paul remarked that the Bowling Green incident was an attempted bombing. Of course, both Paul and Conway are incredibly wrong. According to the Justice Dept., the two men arrested in Bowling Green were guilty of providing material assistance and attacking US troops in Iraq. From the DoJ press release:

Two Iraqi citizens living in Bowling Green, Ky., who admitted using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) against U.S. soldiers in Iraq and who attempted to send weapons and money to Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) for the purpose of killing U.S. soldiers, were sentenced today to serve federal prison terms by Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.