100,000 dead signals time to end U.S. criminal Yemen war

Beginning with Obama and continuing under Trump, war obsessed America has fueled Saudi Arabia’s murderous war against neighboring Yemen. That’s literal fueling as one of America’s treacherous means of support to the Saudis was refueling their bombers reining death upon the hapless Yemenis. The world’s worst humanitarian crisis includes a hundred thousand dead, 24 million becoming food dependent from blockade and bombs, half of Yemen’s health care facilities shattered, including 70 hospitals, and covid spreading wildly. Nice going Uncle Sam. Without U.S. logistical, military and moral support the incompetent Saudis could not continue the war. It’s was an American effort from the get-go as a way of degrading our bete noir Iran who we and the Saudis claim are directing the Houthi rebels Saudi Arabia is trying to defeat in the Yemen civil war.

Last year Trump vetoed a congressional resolution to invoke the 1973 War Powers Act which would have ended U.S. involvement; effectively ending Saudi hostilities. Congress is trying again. Five Dems and three Republicans have reintroduced a new bi-partisan War Powers Act resolution to end one of the most horrific U.S. military interventions in history. Incoming President Joe Biden has made noises about ending U.S. support for the Saudis, something Trump will never consider, much less do.

Every decent American should support this new resolution and demand the president, honor it. It’s time for all of us to wash the blood of the Yemeni dead from our hands and end the suffering of its 24,000,000 souls condemned to horror from the self-proclaimed greatest country in the world.