Three Senate patriots seek to end US war crimes in Yemen

The US is committing war crimes in Yemen. March 22 marks the second anniversary of the Yemen civil war. Sunni Saudi Arabia intervened on the side of their Sunni brothers in Yemen against the largely Shiite rebels. The US provides massive aid to Saudi Arabia as a proxy war against our Middle East bete-noir Iran who the US and Saudis accuse of aiding the Shiite Yemen rebels. Over 10,000 dead and millions suffering cholera and starvation from a Saudi led food blockade and bombing of Yemen infrastructure. Now three Senate patriots are pushing back against US war crimes there. Republican Mike Lee (UT), Democrat Chris Murphy (CT) and Independent Bernie Sanders (VT) have introduced a Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) to end US intervention by enforcing the War Powers Act of 1973. If passed it would force Trump to either declare war against Yemen or end US war crimes there within 30 days. Alas, the Lee-Murphy-Sanders resolution is largely symbolic. Most Senators and Congressmen are made members of the war party. Congressional leaders will never let their SJR get a vote much less pass. Nearly a century ago President Calvin Coolidge declared that 'the business of this government is business'. Today it's more appropriate to declare that 'the business of this government is criminal war'.