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Sanders, Lee push for end to US involvement in Yemen war
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2018 Mar 17, 10:03am 960 views 2 comments
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MisdemeanorRebel
2018 Mar 17, 7:47pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2018 Mar 17, 7:47pm
Merkel (The Communist Youth leader who became a "conservative" in a matter of days), May (Weak kneed Neoliberal fake Conservative), Grybauskaitė( (like Merkel, she keeps her Communist Past out of view and refuses to answer questions about it) wouldn't have been together in East Germany at the time, as schoolmates or likely anything else.
They are all peas in a pod politically however.
May is to the Brexit what Obama was to Bank Prosecutions and Reform: Hold it off as long as possible.
Grybauskaite is pulling a Democratic Party, whipping up anti-Russian (and, surprisingly, anti-Polish) sentiment and blaming everything that goes wrong on Putin and the Pollacks. In fact, anybody who expresses any opinion contrary to hers is probably in the pay of Putin or the perfidious Poles*.
Merkel we all know and hate. Oh, if the Stassi papers on her ever come out... they'll show her to be the backstabbing politician she really is, then and now.
* East of Poland, Poles have the exact opposite reputation they do in the USA. They're considered cunning but underhanded, greedy, cruel landlords.
They are all peas in a pod politically however.
May is to the Brexit what Obama was to Bank Prosecutions and Reform: Hold it off as long as possible.
Grybauskaite is pulling a Democratic Party, whipping up anti-Russian (and, surprisingly, anti-Polish) sentiment and blaming everything that goes wrong on Putin and the Pollacks. In fact, anybody who expresses any opinion contrary to hers is probably in the pay of Putin or the perfidious Poles*.
Merkel we all know and hate. Oh, if the Stassi papers on her ever come out... they'll show her to be the backstabbing politician she really is, then and now.
* East of Poland, Poles have the exact opposite reputation they do in the USA. They're considered cunning but underhanded, greedy, cruel landlords.
The two lawmakers, along with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), earlier in the day filed a joint resolution questioning U.S. support to a Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in the country.
Sanders and Lee later in a press conference argued that the American intervention — which includes selling the Saudis weapons, providing limited intelligence and helping with air refueling — has never specifically been approved by Congress.
The lawmakers hope to invoked the War Powers Resolution, a federal law intended to check the president’s power to commit the country to armed conflict without Congress’s consent.
“If the president or members of Congress believe that support for this war is in U.S. interests and that we should be involved in it, then let them come before Congress, let them make their case and let the Congress vote on whether or not we stay in that war,” Sanders said.
Lee argued the legislation “is neither liberal nor conservative.”
“This is an American principle. ... It’s constitutional.”
Civil war has overtaken Yemen since early 2015 when Houthi rebels took over the capital of Sanaa and President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi fled to the southern city of Aden.
Saudi Arabia, concerned about Iran’s support of the Houthis in a neighboring country, formed a coalition and intervened in support of Hadi.
In response, the U.S. has provided support for the Saudi campaign.
“If you look at the War Powers Act, what America is currently involved in constitutes a military action,” Sanders said.
The U.S. support in Yemen ties into a larger argument on the Trump administration’s continued use of a 2001 authorization for use of military force (AUMF), passed following the 9/11 terrorist attacks to justify a range of military actions.
Several lawmakers want the language revoked for a more tailored war authorization bill, arguing the current AUMF has reached far beyond what it was meant to allow.
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/376157-sanders-lee-push-for-end-to-us-involvement-in-yemen-war