Another win for the butchers of children — Senate tables a resolution to end US assistance to maniacal Saudia Arabia's Yemen war

© 2018 Peter Free

 

21 March 2018

 

 

Death-dealing cowardice — is that the United States Government's most defining characteristic?

 

Take the American Senate:

 

 

The Senate on Tuesday rejected an effort to force President Trump to end the U.S. military's support for Saudi Arabia's bombing operations in Yemen.

 

Senators voted 55-44 to table the resolution, effectively killing it.

 

Defense Secretary James Mattis urged Republicans to oppose the resolution during a closed-door lunch just hours ahead of the vote.

 

“New restrictions on this limited U.S. military support could increase civilian casualties, jeopardize cooperation with our partners on counterterrorism and reduce our influence with the Saudis,” Mattis wrote in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last week.

 

The United States has provided support for the Saudi campaign in Yemen's years-long civil war, including military advisers helping Saudi forces target enemies in Yemen for attack and U.S. planes refueling Saudi-led bombers on combat missions.

 

But senators have signaled growing concerns about the level of civilian casualties.

 

The United Nations estimates that 10,000 people have been killed.

 

© 2018 Jordain Carney, Senate sides with Trump on providing Saudi military support, The Hill (20 March 2018) (excerpts)

 

 

Oh yeah!

 

That's our Secretary of Defense — former Marine general "Mad Dog" Jim Mattis — supporting the idea that ordinary Yemenis, including their children, need to wiped out by Saudi Arabia. That tribal agglomeration of oil-holding Wahhabist terror-supporters.

 

 

The war has killed 9,245 people since Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies joined the government’s fight against the Houthis, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

 

It triggered what the UN has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

 

The war in Yemen has killed or injured more than 5,000 children and left another 400,000 severely malnourished and fighting for their lives, according to the UN children’s agency.

 

Unicef said nearly 2 million Yemeni children were out of school, a quarter of them since the conflict escalated when a Saudi-led coalition intervened in March 2015.

 

More than 3 million children were born into the war . . . “scarred by years of violence, displacement, disease, poverty, undernutrition and a lack of access to basic services”.

 

[T]he more than 5,000 children killed or injured in the violence amounted to “an average of five children every day since March 2015”.

 

“An entire generation of children in Yemen is growing up knowing nothing but violence,” said Meritxell Relano, Unicef representative in Yemen.

 

“Malnutrition and disease are rampant as basic services collapse,” he said, adding:

 

“Those who survive are likely to carry the physical and psychological scars of conflict for the rest of their lives.”

 

The UN agency said more than 11 million children – or “nearly every child in Yemen” – were in need of humanitarian assistance.

 

© 2018 Agence France Presse, Yemen war: 5,000 children dead or hurt and 400,000 malnourished, UN says, The Guardian (16 January 2018)

 

 

Why support killing and psychically torturing kids?

 

Presumably because:

 

 

our medievally barbarous ally Saudi Arabia "needs" us,

 

we need Saudi oil,

 

and

 

without Saudi Wahhabist terror philosophy permeating the Muslim world —

 

how would the American Military Industrial Complex so easily keep itself afloat?

 

 

The imaginary Russia Menace cannot be expected to carry the whole — "they're out to get us" — US propaganda load.

 

 

The moral? — Atta boy, Jim!

 

You are (sadly) indicatively illustrative of imperialistic child-killers.

 

 

Did "circumstances" make you do it?

 

Trapped ignobly by "necessity"?

 

 

Even the Marine Corps, which spawned our allegedly admirable Secretary of Defense, should be embarrassed. At least so, in whiskey-sipping's private Halls of Montezuma.

 

As for the Senate, that mainly contemptible pack of grasping, lying pussies should be (metaphorically) buried to their necks in Yemeni sand and covered with honey.