Trump trumps Congress to continue murderous Yemen war

In a story virtually ignored by the media, Congress failed to override Trump's veto of their joint resolution invoking the 1973 War Powers Act to force a US withdrawal from Saudi Arabia's murderous war in Yemen. The vote was 53-45, falling 13 votes short of the two-thirds margin required to bring an end to the four year long war that has killed over 70,000 and caused disease and starvation to millions more. The Saudis intervened in the Yemen civil war to promote the Sunni faction they want to prevail over the Shi'ite faction. They can not succeed without US support including intelligence, mid air refueling of Saudi bombers and massive quantities of US weapons of civilian destruction (WCD) which keep US war factories humming. The congressional vote was historic: the first serious effort by Congress to end criminal US war since the War Powers Act was enacted in 1973 in response to Nixon's ferocious bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

The Trib's coverage of the veto override failure was a disgrace; a tiny article on page 12 calling Trump's continuing slaughter of the hapless Yemenis a 'policy'. The Sun-Times' was worse; not a mention whatsoever. That's how perpetual US war is perpetuated: hear no evil, see no evil, report no evil.