TOTAL WITHDRAWAL, IMMEDIATE HUMANITARIAN AID NOW!
Yemen is home to the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. The U.S. Saudi Arabia-led intervention in the civil war between the Yemeni government and the Houthi militia has ravaged the country and has left 80% of the country starving. An estimated 500,000 people along the secondary fronts south of Hudaydah have taken shelter in refugee camps. 1.8 million children in Yemen suffer from malnutrition. Even United Nations projections warn that 14 million people may die if this continues.
The United States has been providing the fascist royal Saudi government with bombs, planes, surveillance, drones, military intelligence and personnel. This is not secret information but known to all members of Congress who have ignored the genocide.
The deaths of Yemenis mattered nothing to Congress until the Saudi royalty murdered a journalist. Only then was a resolution introduced in the Senate that even mentioned the US role in the war. When the US Senate (but not the House) drafted and passed Senate Joint Resolution 54, the world hoped strong measures would be taken to bring an end to this genocidal war. But the resolution only minimally scales back U.S. involvement leaving loopholes for continued total involvement.
What we need is an act of Congress (not a resolution) that immediately withdraws all U.S. involvement, cancels the sales of military weaponry and military aid to Saudi Arabia, lifts all humanitarian blockades, and allows emergency medical and food aid in without conditions. Anything less and the deaths of millions will be on their hands.