Saudi apologists, they have nothing but contempt for any who dare to criticise them, no matter what they do...as far4 as they are concerned, there is always an excuse and they are never wrong.
Have the Saudis ever apologised for anything they have done in Yemen?
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This attack subsidized by Donald Trump and the incestuous business relations he’s developed with the help of Jared Kushner and Erik Prince.
If this is what winning looks like, I’d be fine with a loss.
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Apparently the fact that this atrocity was committed with American bombs and American planes (and American target location?) isn't unusual enough to be newsworthy.
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They wouldn't care to mention how more than 40 were killed... now they're called dozens, as if dead children would be counted as 'dozens' if this happened in Saudi Arabia or anywhere else.
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The Yemeni war is subsidized by the US taxpayer. And the killing is done in our name. This is an illegal war and would not be possible if were not for the US and it's air to air refueling and AWACS support. The US Military are nothing but mercenaries for the Saudi government.
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After a chemical-weapons attack that killed many people in Syria, Mr. Trump ordered the US navy to fire 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Syrian targets. Then he addressed the nation, and justified the bombing of Syria by reminding us of cruelly murdered “beautiful babies”, and declaring that “No child of God should ever suffer such horror.”
I believe many would like to see a journalist from the White House corps ask Mr. Trump if he saw the images of dead bodies of Yemeni children on news this evening. And what difference did he discern between the suffering of Yemeni and Syrian children that could justify his complete silence on Saudis bombing school buses in Yemen..
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If the Saudis call the killing children a “legitimate military operation” then the U.S. should cut off their weapon supply, full stop.
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Outrageous! Simply outrageous!
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Canada is considered guilty by the Saudis of questioning their human rights violations. Then they kill these children. What do you say now Salman?
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More horrors for the Yemini people under the Trump administration's arming the Saudis. Many innocent people were killed by drones ordered by Obama during his administration. Very unfortunate. Very sad.
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@Barb:Very unfair criticism even though you admit Obama at fault too. But when President Trump stated he wanted to withdraw troops from the Middle East wars the LEFT joined with the Bush Neocons to object and he backed down. Where was the outrage then - disgusting US foreign policy basically done to appease Israel.
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@Larry: Wait a minute, Larry. Most of the nation wanted Obama to bring the troops home from Iraq. Although he did manage to bring most of them back, the right dragged their feet and are still criticizing him for doing it. Trump should perhaps get some credit for "wanting" to get them out, but he's made little to no actual effort to do so. I think what the left objected to was removing what little force we have left in Syria in the face of Assad and the large Russian military presence backing his regime. This is probably a lost cause, but our presence may be the only thing preventing a major bloodbath of retribution against the rebels.
Our pals the Saudis. Bombs made in America. And it's Iran that's the bad guy. I am so proud to be an American.
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@Doctor Woo But what would American arms manufacturing be without the assistance of our friendly cohorts at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems? The State of Israel is our most reliable ally in terms of developing and testing future weapon systems.
Credit where credit is due.
Let's immediately airlift these kids to hospitals in Qatar. They can obtain long-term care in Canada where the sudden vacancy of hospital beds is a result of KSA ordering all Saudi citizens, including patients in hospitals, to leave.
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Unfortunately, nothing of any consequence will be done to help Yemeni's. We have seen this time and time again. The world will stand by and watch them massacred or enslaved in return for access to resources, to drive their cars, fuel their machines, fly their planes, pilot their boats: control of the Bab al-Mandab Straits for oil shipments. The Great Game!
The Saudi Coalition: USA, UK, Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Djibouti, Eritrea and Somalia – and not to forget Academi mercenaries (formerly Blackwater, founded by Erik Prince, accused of murder and massacres in Iraq and beyond) what would a vicious war be without corporate mercenaries and profit.
And all willing to murder, even children, to satiate their desires, and we, complicit for our own ends. Human sacrifice is alive and well.
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Imagine the outrage if Israel did this.
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@The King Imagine Israel would have justified it as a legitimate military operation enacted in full compliance with international humanitarian law and that the Palestinians used these children as human shields , etc and imagine that the "outrage" would not have made the slightest impact on Israeli military policy or US unwavering support thereof - one need not "imagine" this , for outrage against similar, deadly violence against children, Israeli atrocities have not caused any mollification of Israeli terrorism against the Palestinians in the occupied territories or caused any diminution of US economic and military support
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@The King I take it you’re not familiar with the ‘Hannibal Directive’?
With the unwarranted slaughter of children will the Donald retaliate and bomb Riyadh? Will Ivanka cry?
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The Trump administration is not going to respond to this atrocity. After the President's "sword dance" with the new Saudi leadership it's obvious that current weapons deals and future hotel deals are more important than the lives of innocent civilians in Yemen.
But where is Congress? While most foreign policy is in the hands of the administration, Congress is not required to simply remain silent.
There should be hearings questioning why we provide military support for these ongoing atrocities. There should be questions raised about our silence at the U.N. More importantly, Congress must protest the failure of the administration to live up to its obligations under the U.N. charter.
Congress proved that it can have a voice and has done so with repeated sanctions against Russia. So why is this same Congress cowed into silence as Yemen has become the greatest human rights crisis in the world?
Congress must act because the administration will not. If Congress fails to act, then they are equally complicit in these crimes against humanity.
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This week the most interesting article I came across was “Saudi Coalition Bombs School Bus in Yemen, Killing Dozens” by Shuaib Almosawa and Ben Hubbard. The article informed me about a crisis and devastating event that took place which I had not even heard about. With at least 43 people dead, and 63 injuries the search still continued for more people. Just reading this article made me furious. It also said that the overwhelming majority of people wounded and killed were children. This all started in 2014 when rebels from the north seized control over most of the northwest, including the capital, Sana. What upsets me the most however is that they are taking it out on children who are innocent and young. They are treating these pure little children as collateral damage, which is not fair to them. The United States gets involved in so many other issues that it makes me wonder what we could do for them. No matter what your political stance is, everyone should agree that this is not okay or right by any means. This article made me feel many emotions such as sadness and anger. It’s a shame what’s going on in the world, and reading this article makes me that much more concerned.
Overall, the article itself was interesting only because I had no other prior knowledge of this. It taught me about something that is extremely important and should be more known.
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I think this is linked to what the Saudis are doing to Canada. They know Trump will not speak out and, in reality, he probably admires their "toughness"
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Quoting the N.Y.Times "Saudi Arabia, which considers the Houthis a proxy force for Iran, and its allies responded with a military intervention intended to push back the Houthis and restore Yemen’s internationally recognized government" this statement bothers me for two reasons, the word "consider" is one, don't they know for sure that the Houthis are a proxy for Iran? And who are these allies that are helping Saudi Arabia? Who is helping to bomb Yemen? What Coalition?
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@C. Bernard The USA is part of the coalition, and other members include the UK I think, plus UAEmirates, etc.
Terrible. We should withdraw.
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How can an airstrike in a crowded city market possibly be "carried out in accordance with international humanitarian law,”?
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Tell me again, aren't we the defenders of freedom and democracy around the globe? So why do we repeat our horrible mistakes year after depressing year?
Eisenhower was right.
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."
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Yes Trump is complicit in this since he has our tankers in the air refueling Saudi fighters. At the beginning of his presidency he launched an attack in Yemen, loosing one of our bravest.
We dont know how many advisers he has helping Saudis masacre children. But the sword dance did it.
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Are we going to see the same outrage at the alleged Syrian gas attacks by Assad? Probably not. We are aiding and abetting Saudi Arabia's siege warfare in Yemen, war crime, right now. WE are responsible for this. WE are responsible for hundreds of thousands of dead and injured civilians. When will we start to live by the ideals that we preach to everyone else in this world and stop our insane perpetuation of wars?
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Impossible. The Saudis told Canada in no uncertain terms that Saudi Arabia doesn't meddle in other countries' internal affairs.
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what does canada's forces doing in afghanstan, the same thing, but Saudi Arabia just defense its border
These were children, but the words "school bus" are an incredible misnomer for a group of kids on "a recreational trip with a Quran memorization" component of some sort. And that sums up the core issue that the story and most commenters are missing, which is that the trouble on all sides of this conflict (and in the Arab Muslim world, more generally) is a surplus of kids that the adults can't possibly be troubled to give a useful education to.
This conflict is tragic, sure, but both countries have been breeding huge populations without usable skills. The only difference is that Yemen doesn't have the oil to forestall the inevitable conflicts of a region with more people than there is water to support.
It's such a shame that the one-time civilization that gave the modern world our current system of numbers has completely forgotten how to use them.
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Just to keep things in perspective re the Obama administration:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-president-barack-ob...
I was wondering why the Arab League does not condemn this carnage in Yemen? Why there has not been a single meeting of the Security Council. Why the UN General Assembly has not called out the Saudis.
In view of Canadian opposition to Saudi policy recently, perhaps we can expect Canada to call for a UN Security Council meeting. Where is Mr. Trudeau?
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Only pure political cowardice would block this story from the front page. The near silence of our media on Yemen and the State Department refusal to condemn yet another massacre bespeaks an utter abandonment of all moral judgment when it comes to the machinations of US-backed Saudi Arabia. "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain his oil, and lose his own soul?"
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This is part of an attempt at genocide of the Yemeni people, and America is abetting.
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"Saudi Coalition Bombs School Bus in Yemen, Killing Dozens" - Airplanes Made in America!
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@Majortrout
You think about the airplanes? This is not only weapons but money and political support from America to the genocidal Saudi totalitarian monarchy.
Either Democrats or Republicans, when it comes to war, they are both in the same boat.
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Oops! It's only Yemeni school kids. Just collateral damage, future jihadis. So who cares? Especially not cruel tyrannical Saudis and unfortunately us Americans. For this would'nt have happened without our weapons.
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How can the NYT keep publishing articles about the war in Yemen and related atrocities, without mentioning (or highlighting) the U.S. role? This is appallingly censored journalism!
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"Saudi Coalition Bombs School Bus in Yemen, Killing Dozens"
Gee, a "coalition" involves more than one group, right? Why are we un-named, NYT?
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There are to many ways to spell Vietnam -- Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East, Yemen, and now Saudi Arabia ... .
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Another atrocity by the NY Times' favorite tyrant, Mohammed bin Salman. This "crockery-breaking heir apparent"... "advancing a more progressive future for the kingdom," according to a recent editorial, is nothing more than a thug from a long line of thugs. So progressive that an alleged miscreant was crucified the other day in Mecca. (A story not reported on by the Times as it would challenge their narrative of MBS as the great reformer.) There is no future for the House of Saud. It's death throes are written in the blood of Yemen's children.
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…apparently justified or sanctioned by the US, who gave the Saudi's the green light to make the strike against the school bus. Apparently early on Thursday a coalition air attack scored a direct hit on a school bus packed with children as it drove through a crowded market place.
CNN provides the following disturbing details: "The bus was struck as it was driving through a market in the rebel-held province of Saada, according to the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV. At least 43 people were killed and 63 injured in the strike, according to the Houthi-held health ministry. The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) said that a hospital it supports in Saada had received 29 dead bodies of "mainly children" under 15 years of age, and 40 injured, including 30 children."
Zerohedge explains: "Saudi coalition war crimes in Yemen, which have become a weekly if not almost daily occurrence, has for years been met with mainstream media silence. For example as we recently noted a study that found that in one year, MSNBC covered 'Stormy Daniels' 455 times and the 'War In Yemen' 0 times."
"Note that it's primarily American and British military hardware that's supplying the Saudi military machine. We provide targeting information, equipment and aircraft refueling to the Saudi air campaign, which has been widely criticized for being indiscriminate and killing civilians in places like hospitals, funerals and homes."
Legitimate and justified, so says our State Department flacks…
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@Gerald Wadsworth Last night on MSNBC Chris Hayes covered this, and he was very emotional and upset. He also covered this story one other time.
“carried out in accordance with international humanitarian law,”.
How is what happened in accord with humanitarian laws, and I refer to a twitter photo of a truck full of tiny little dead bodies, destroyed, dismembered, blood-soaked (obviously too much reality for the NYTimes, don't look at what your tax-payer dollars are doing).
Whether it's hospitals and wedding parties in Afghanistan, Schools and Playgrounds in Gaza or School buses in Yemen it's the same heinous excuse, the same old lie, they say 'children are being used as human shields' so they are within their legal rights to murder children!'
It's not enough that people, children, in Yemen and elsewhere are being forced to die slowly in the most painful of ways: starvation and disease, they are now being finished off quickly as well, courtesy of killing machines and weapons from the US and other parties. And, depravedly – it's all just money in the bank for the war mongers.
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These are crimes against humanity. When will we wake up.
Please keep this in the forefront of the news, instead of the moronic twitter feeds— it is beyond the pale.
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Before clicking over to the NYT I was reading Bob Rae's op-ed in the Toronto Star. I am 70 and Bob Rae has been a big part of Canada for a long time.
Today's op-ed tells this Canadian why even if much of what I learned is a fog, Orwell's 1984 gets clearer every day.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2018/08/09/what-canadas-sau...
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"Saudi Arabia, which considers the Houthis a proxy force for Iran, and its allies responded"
Interesting, and telling , that the NY TIMES article leaves out that the "allies" include the US.
"In March 2015, President Barack Obama declared that he had authorized U.S. forces to provide logistical and intelligence support to the Saudis in their military intervention in Yemen, establishing a "Joint Planning Cell" with Saudi Arabia.[395] This includes aerial refueling permitting coalition aircraft more loitering time over Yemen, and permitting some coalition members to home base aircraft rather than relocate them to Saudi Arabia.[125]
US supported the intervention by "providing intelligence sharing, targeting assistance, advisory and logistical support to the military intervention", according to the state department.[396] In April 2015, the US expanded its intelligence-sharing with the coalition.[397] Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken said: "As part of that effort, we have expedited weapons deliveries, we have increased our intelligence sharing, and we have established a joint coordination planning cell in the Saudi operation centre."[398] Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that evidence shows that SA had been using U.S.-supplied cluster bombs outlawed in much of the world.[399] According to Anthony Cordesman, the US government does not want "the strategic Bab-el-Mandeb strait" to be threatened.[400]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention_in_Yemen
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It’s just a matter of time before Trump orders an airstrike that kills innocent children - if we give him the time in office to do so.
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Plausible US deniability. Imagine Russian planes killing dozens in Yemen. No, just our ally Saudi Arabia, who was found to be involved in 911 evil on American soil. And, how many people colluded with the Saudis then and now? What a scandal? No. Bandar Bush. Need anybody say more?
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Too few of our media cover the war in Yemen. I hope the NY Times will do more in order to make up for the lack of coverage elsewhere. This is true of international news in general in the "Trump era"
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While the media's attention of the Thai soccer players in the cave was nonstop, the children dying in Yemen barely gets any notice. Why?
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Nobody should be surprised that this is happening and will continue to happen as long as the US administration keeps encouraging MBS and other dictators, while scolding and mocking allies and democracies. Worse yet, they stand idly by when the same brutal monarch wants to humiliate Canada for calling him out on his human rights abuses!
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Did our advisers working with the Saudi military on targeting have a role in this?
"The majority of U.S. assistance has consisted of aerial targeting assistance, intelligence sharing, and mid-flight aerial refueling for Saudi and UAE aircraft."
https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-support-saudi-military-operations-yemen
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So, where is the Congress demanding sanctions on the Saudi for human right violations? I guess it is only violation when it happened in Syria, in Yemen it is all justified.
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Unfortunately the US is directing a lot of targeting and intelligence for the war against Yemen, wonder if US personnel were involved in the targeting of the bus?
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The US is complicit in these killings, the Trump Administration has given MBS the horrific Saudi assassinator in chief freedom to bomb innocent civilians in Yemen. He is committing war crimes in Yemen and we have no one to hold him accountable.
The US Congress has abdicated its responsibility and the Republicans would not even speak loudly criticizing the Trump Administration who keeps providing aerial and logistical supports to the Emaratis and Saudis to kill poor Yemenis.
What a shame and we profess to hold high ideals of Human Rights?
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Here is what the UN Security Council president said this morning about the attack, questioned by a reporter:
Ambassador, first in your national capacity and then as appropriate as President of the Council: the reaction to the bombing of a school bus in northern Yemen? Dozens of very young children, videos showing many under the age of ten injured and/or killed in a strike that the Saudis say was justified.
Well, we've seen those reports. It's very important as we've said repeatedly that all parties to the conflict in Yemen adhere to International Humanitarian Law. Where there is an incident of this sort, it's important this investigated thoroughly and the conclusions of that investigation are shared and are learned from and we'll be calling for that in this incidence as well.
As President, I'm afraid I don't have anything to say on that. This is not something that the Council has discussed recently.
Has anybody asked the Presidency to discuss it in AOB?
As of this moment, I am not aware of any such requests. Thank you very much.
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Trump and Kushner are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Sharia Kingdom of Saud. This is as equally dangerous as their relationship to the Russian mafia. Please stop ignoring the Yemen crisis. It is ethnic cleansing.
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A bright yellow school bus gets bombed and the Saudis say it is “a legitimate military operation...carried out in accordance with international humanitarian law."
Seems like the new Prince has learned well from his American mentors.
You can get away with anything brutal so long as you invoke the rule of law you just ignored.
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Looks like our arms sales to the Saudi coalition are really paying off. USA! USA! USA! /s
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Children slaughtered while aboard a moving school bus- yet the "Children used as human-shields" justification trotted out again:
Where have we heard this before?
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@Candlewick - let's see…the first Bush failure, the Clinton presidency, the Bush regime, Obama's residency, and now the Trumpian dynasty - all doing exactly what the Neo-con militarists - who have never been tossed out and thrown into a war crimes prison, want them to do.
Nothing like instilling terror into the hearts of people by slaughtering their children.
All legit and justified, of course. Just ask State Department flunkie Heather (appropriately named) to explain it to you.
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Mohammad Bin Salman seems like a heck of a reformer. I hope we can see some more glowing pieces on him sooner about how inefficient he is at using American and Canadian weapons to commit a genocide in the middle east's poorest nation.
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Will the citizens of Western nations ever admit to the hipocrisy of their governments? Those that sell weapons and kowtow to these remnants of our medieval, barbaric past? How can you sleep at night? I left the US because I burned in fury knowing that my taxes would pay for the bombs dropped in Iraq. What are you going to do???
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@NoCommonNonsense First of all, it's spelled "hypocrisy." Secondly, there's noting hypocritical about selling weapons to your allies. They're weapons--everybody knows the risks if they're used. It's a question of why and how they're used. In the case of arms sales to Saudi, I'd rather sell them precision guided munitions (usually GPS or laser) rather than WWII-esque dumb bombs. This means civilian deaths, while tragic, are on a far, far lower scale. However, continued reports of what appear to mistaken targets or bombs going off target, suggests to me the Saudi coalition has problems with the quality of intelligence they're getting and their technical skill in employment of the weapons. Still, we're talking dozens, not thousands, of civilian deaths.
So, third, where was your outrage over the Syrian government's air raids, fully supported, supplied, & funded by Russia & Iran? Very few smart bombs there. By design--zero effort to spare civilian casualties. Quite to the contrary. When you're dropping "barrel bombs" (literally barrel-like containers filled with fuel and connected to a trigger) in civilian neighborhoods, your intent is pretty clear. The Syrian regime killed tens of thousands of people every year in airstrikes. Crickets from the political left.
Thanks, however, for leaving the US. Easy way to avoid tough questions. You won't be missed. However, what will I do? Stay and take part in the political process in order to influence things like our foreign policy.
The only foreign military forces in Yemen are the Saudis and their allies, indirectly the US. The war in Yemen is a civil war being prolonged by Saudi Arabia and the US. The Houthis have disrupted some shipping in response and the coalition is now using that as an excuse for further deadly intervention. The Saudis have shown utter disregard for civilian casualties. It is a moral outrage that we continue to supply such irresponsible actors with lethal weapons that we know can be used with more accuracy but are not. This is an unnecessary war promulgated by a vengeful, and jealous Saudi Arabia. It is time for the US to stand up to the Saudis and to finally stand FOR some sense of morality. Stop sending weapons in support of an unjust war!
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In other news:
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President Donald Trump's hotel in New York City earlier this year reversed a two-year trend of declining rental revenue after members of the entourage of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman booked rooms there,...
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Trump benefits personally and State Department looks the other way on human rights violations - while Saudis make it up to Trump financially.
The Trump Swamp is flourishing.
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Perhaps you can not bring yourselves to show the videos in which adults hold up smoke-blackened hands and forearms -- ripped from bodies -- or display the mutilated larger portions of the children's corpses. Perhaps you can not bring yourselves to show the pictures of the children taken, happy and innocent, still alive, before they boarded that school bus. But, by all that's decent, LINK to them. You are complicit in evil by not reporting it so fully as you could.
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As the prime supporter and arms supplier for this unjust war, we are as culpable as the Saudis. Yet far too Americans continue to know nothing about this, and wonder why so many people in the region hate us.
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Please identify the countries in this "coalition." Why weren't they named in the first place?
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@Ed UAhE, Bahrain, Kuwait and Egypt (primarily). Bahraini, Kuwaiti, and Egyptian aircraft are used off and on for combat purposes. But they've also provided transport and support aircraft. Egypt also deployed naval vessels to prevent Iranian weapons shipments into Houthi-occupied ports. The US has provided aerial refueling and limited Command and Control (C2) & Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) support.
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After what the Administration did to the children on the Mexican border, why would it be a surprise if they have their fingerprints on this one as well! Americans have lost their moral right to question human rights abuses in other parts of the world; it will take us a few generations to regain our standing in the world. Shame!
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where is the outrage? If this happened in Syria we would be talking invasion and sanctions. What’s the difference between claims of chemical weapons that perhaps kill some people and using a bomb and killing scores of children on the bus. The coverage of this by the mass media is exactly why people have no faith in it and say false news - selective reporting that misrepresents what’s happening and is used to advance America’s political agenda is false news - that is why Trump gets upset. This kind of reporting generates and supports war - the NYT is responsible.
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The US supplies arms and air support for Saudis war crimes against Yemen. They are blockading Yemen causing the world largest humanitarian disaster where millions may die form disease and famine. The Saudis are also the largest funders of terrorism in the world, such as in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Libya. They fund al Nusra an al Qaeda spinoff in Syria and call them rebels. In Syria the rebel held territories all the women wore burqas in accordance with Saudi Wahhabism. The freed areas, now the people can dress as they wish. How is it that the Saudis are our friends when they fund terrorists which kill Americans?
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Why do media organizations spend no time showing the barbarism of the Saudi led attack on Yemen? There is non-stop coverage of Russian collusion and Trump's tweets and rallies, but precious little is said of the carnage this authoritarian monarchy is unleashing.
The Canadian government makes a minor tweet about some women who have been brutalized in their own country for standing for basic gender equality, and Saudi monarchy breaks all ties and even orders all its students out of the country.
Yet, the only media coverage of the Saudi kingdom is to applaud the ultra-reactionary Saudi monarchy for allowing women to get driver's licenses. Wow. Maybe the NYT should be spending more time exposing the authoritarian Saudi monarchy for what it is.
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The United States underwrites these atrocities with our military support of Saudi Arabia. The ghastly things we do to other people must surely inspire more than a few to turn to terrorism. America is sowing the wind.
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Moral issues notwithstanding, by providing in-air-refueling for the Saudi bombers, we're direct participants in this bombing campaign. How then, does this not make us legitimate targets?
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Both the Obama and Trump administrations support Saudi and its air strike campaign in Yemen. Our tax dollars at work. Shame on us.
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Someone please tell me, that these were no our weapons that committed this heinous crime against children.
In Syria and Nicaragua, the weapons that kill small and large children, and adults as well, all come from Russia.
Please tell me, Trumpler's friendship with Putin does not mean we have become weapons suppliers to the world's criminal actions and mass murderers of children.
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I am sure that was a US made missile. It is cool how my country (Canada) will make tepid tweets about human rights violations but still try and sell $15billion in war machines to a country doing this.
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This is what our government is supporting in Yemen along with the Brits. Wonder if Trump will say nothing and if he doesn't then let the Left impeach him but the Left doesn't care about these horrific victims. How come the great New York Times covered the denied chemical attack in Syria that caused less casualties very vividly but is silent on this barbaric attack by our buddies in Saudi Arabia. Shame but the US will do nothing.
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Hopefully Canada will speak out about this, since they now have nothing to lose. Hopefully the rest of the world will join them!
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@John Mardinly We must question why the major western democracies are cooperating with Saudi Arabia. Why have the US and the UK remained “neutral” concerning SA’s decision to trash Canada for criticizing the kingdom’s treatment of its own citizens who dare to speak out about human rights?
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Remember everyone, we must not criticize the Saudi government for this barbaric action. The Prince might get mad. In his view, only Iran commits acts like this.
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