Yemen:US Military Industrial Complex Benefits from Suffering of a Brave Nation

This barbaric nation [Saudi Arabia] should not get our weapons, I’m embarrassed that people here earn money and make money, while 17 million live on a hunger diet.” – Senator Rand Paul

“The United States has no actions in support of the war that only encouraged our terrorist enemies, exacerbated a humanitarian crisis, and incited fear and anger among the Yemeni people toward the United States” – Senator Chris Murphy

Yemen is a disaster that we have to bear personally. For two and four months, the Saudi coalition, supported and armed by the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union, bombed 27 million Yemenis of all types of heavy military equipment, including cluster bombs that were illegally deployed against targets with a civilian majority.

Added to the daily rain of fire and death, are United Nations sanctions. Under resolution 2216, five individuals were placed under embargo. Resolution 2216 is based on an illegal argument that the outgoing ex-president, Mansour Hadi, is the legitimate claimant of power in Yemen. Resolution 2216 is used by the United Nations and one of its principal sponsors, Saudi Arabia, to starve and deprive the Yemeni people as a collective punishment for their intransigence and refusal to accept Saudi colonization by proxy. The United Nations then reinforced the misery of the Yemeni people with a “verification and inspection mechanism” that would ensure further genocide in Yemen through disease, famine and drought.

The suffering of the Yemeni people is a crime against all humanity. Such a flagrant ethnic massacre that can be carried out under NATO’s unified media radar, with the full complicity of all our governments, is one of the most serious human rights violations we will witness in our lives. In their communities, hardly any of them, the state-sponsored human rights groups promoting unsupported accusations against the Syrian government on a daily basis die in their communities.

There may have been a recent sea change in the US House of Representatives over the past few days. We can only hope that it can carry some weight against the power of the fully-equipped military industrial complex, which is the first beneficiary of the aggressive war of genocide waged by the Saudi coalition against the impoverished Yemeni state. Acceptance.

The following is a report from Robert Neiman, Policy Director for Truth Out:

Today, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which prohibits US participation in the disastrous Saudi-UAE war against the Houthi-Saleh alliance in Yemen.

Davidson’s amendment to US military action in Yemen is not authorized under the 2001 AUMF. The United States’ participation in the Saudi-UAE war in Yemen is not al-Qaeda’s, or a non-Al Qaeda-linked, and unlicensed in 2001. The Davidson amendment would prevent the United States from refueling Saudi and UAE warplanes that bomb Yemen.

Nolan’s amendment prohibits the deployment of US troops to participate in the civil war in Yemen. The Nolan amendment would prevent the United States from refueling Saudi aircraft and the United Arab Emirates bombing Yemen.

The US-Saudi war in Yemen, which the US Congress has never allowed, has pushed Yemen to the brink of famine, with the world’s worst cholera outbreak, with the United Nations suspending a cholera vaccination plan in Yemen because of a war.

The Saudi-UAE war in Yemen has also strengthened al-Qaeda and ISIS. Indeed, al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch is allied with the Saudis and the UAE against the Huthi-Saleh forces.

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut has said, “The Saudis simply could not operate this bombing campaign without us. Their planes can not fly without US refueling capacity. “Yet the US has doubled the amount of fuel it provided to Saudi and UAE bombers since October. Most of the bombers refueled by the US are UAE bombers, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon apparently has little oversight or concern about who or what it is helping to bomb:

“We are offering refueling packages to the Saudi-led coalition on demand,” said Central Command spokesman Major Jack Jake. “They are asking for refueling, and we are going to send you to the Saudi-led coalition about the reasons for the fuel demand.

Congress worked to end US involvement in the Saudi-UAE disastrous war in Yemen, which Congress never approved, long overdue. President Trump must pay attention to the House votes and end the US fuel supply from Saudi and UAE planes bombing Yemen immediately.

You can urge President Trump to comply with the demands of the House of Representatives and urge the Senate to stand with the House here.

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