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    SJRes54 goes to vote tomorrow & More

    Tomorrow the Senate will vote on SJRes54 https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsr...ution-tomorrow to end the unconstitutional war and end our assistance in the Yemen genocide.

    Ro Khanna has 93 co sponsors H.CON.Res138 for final passage to go to Trumps desk it has to be reconciled in Joint Committee between Senate & House before they adjourn on the 115th congress on 12/14
    https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-...138%22%7D&r=12

    In November in Yemen it was the deadliest month so far over 3,000 people were killed. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8678376.html


    International committee of the Red Cross warns conditions are expected to worsen even if peace talks are successful. They have reported that 2.9 million women and children are severely malnourished and at risk of death. https://www.voanews.com/a/icrc-condi...d/4696364.html

    30% of airstrikes targeted civilians. America provided Saudi with Satellite targeting intelligence, munitions, air craft, and air refueling and could amount to possible war crimes. https://www.mcall.com/opinion/letter...210-story.html
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    The US did not commit any war crimes. We only pass on actual intel of enemy positions.
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    So far senate voted to proceed on Yemen war powers resolution 60-39 https://www.senate.gov/legislative/L...n=2&vote=00261

    They are debating it now.....Link in post #3 above

    Paul Ryan slips in another last minute rule on an unrelated bill to block vote on ending war in Yemen https://www.commondreams.org/newswir...ng-votes-yemen

    Senate establishes precedent for debating war power authority https://www.rollcall.com/news/politi...ers-amendments
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    There is no authority outside of attacking AQAI in Yemen.
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    Sens. Graham & Menendez on Response to Khashoggi Death
    https://www.c-span.org/video/?455868-1/senators-graham-menendez-outline-response-khashoggi-killing



    House GOP blocks lawmakers from forcing Yemen war votes for rest of year
    https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4...r-rest-of-year


    Senate moves toward vote on ending support for Saudi-led war. Senators were expected to hold a final vote today, but are still debating vote is expected to take place on Thursday
    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...-saudi-led-war
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    The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/u...eo-mattis.html

    WASHINGTON — The Senate voted resoundingly on Thursday to withdraw American military assistance for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, issuing the latest in a series of stinging bipartisan rebukes of President Trump for his defense of the kingdom amid outrage in both parties over Riyadh’s role in the killing of a dissident journalist.
    The 56-to-41 vote was a rare move by the Senate to limit presidential war powers and send a potent message of official disapproval for a nearly four-year conflict that has killed thousands of civilians and brought famine to Yemen. Its immediate effect was largely symbolic, after the House earlier this week moved to scuttle it, all but assuring that the measure will expire this year without making it to Mr. Trump’s desk.
    But the action signaled a growing sense of urgency among lawmakers in both parties to punish Saudi Arabia for its role in the brutal killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and to question a decades-old bipartisan tradition of Washington averting its gaze from human rights abuses and other wrongdoing by the kingdom in the interest of preserving a strategically important relationship in the Middle East.
    Senators also approved, by a voice vote, a resolution to hold Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the heir to the kingdom’s throne, personally responsible for Mr. Khashoggi’s killing. The nonbinding measure also calls on Saudi Arabia to “moderate its increasingly erratic foreign policy” and urges an end to American air-to-air refueling of bombers operating in Yemen.

    The United States stopped refueling Saudi warplanes operating in Yemen last month; the resolution would keep the Pentagon from restarting that support.
    [Read about how American-made bombs kill civilians in Yemen.]
    With the moves, senators were breaking forcefully with Mr. Trump, who has maintained steadfast support for Saudi Arabia and Prince Mohammed, even though the C.I.A. has concluded that he directed the grisly assassination of Mr. Khashoggi inside its consulate in Istanbul in October.
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    Won't it be ironic if the Yemenis suffering increases as a result of this vote?
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    "It's immediate effect was largely symbolic"... pretty much the nutshell here

    I thought the figure you quoted was something stupid like 10's of thousands dying daily in one of your bed$#@! walls of text and video threads

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