16, October 2017 YEMEN
The incoherent and unpredictable president continues to advance his business interests with thuggish regimes around the world. His latest infatuation is with King Saud of Saudi Arabia who has launched merciless, genocidal attacks, on its impoverished neighbor, Yemen.
The U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war and naval blockade in Yemen has created a huge cholera epidemic that has become the largest and fastest-spreading outbreak of the disease in modern world history. The World Health Organization estimates there will be a million cases of cholera in Yemen by the end of the year affecting at least 600,000 children. Our tax dollars are creating a famine of biblical proportions.
No longer can we make the false claim that we are a force for good. Weapon sales always seem to triumph concerns for human rights - unless the American people wake up and take action.
Sen. Chris Murphy stated “there is an American imprint on every civilian life lost in Yemen. The Houthi rebel army poses no existential threat to the United States. The United States Congress has not debated a war authorization giving the president the power to conduct this operation in Yemen.”
I urge readers to call the White House Comment line (202-456-1111) and demand an immediate halt to weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and bombing attacks on Yemen.
Please tweet - #POTUS HALT WEAPONS SALES TO SAUDI ARABIA DEMAND THEY LIFT EMBARGO & BOMBING OF YEMENESE CIVILIANS.
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