CBS News: 2020 Dem says U.S. backing "genocidal war" in Yemen

Face the Nation: 2020 Dem says U.S. backing “genocidal war” in Yemen
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Urge Speaker Pelosi to send Rep. Khanna to the NDAA conference to end the war

You may have only the vaguest idea who “Marianne Williamson” is. For our purposes, it doesn’t really matter that much who she is. What matters for our purposes is that she’s being allowed to address millions of Americans on TV. And she’s using that soapbox to denounce U.S. participation in the Saudi regime’s genocidal war in Yemen.

CBS News’ Face the Nation reports:

Marianne Williamson, a Democratic candidate for president, condemned the Trump administration's military and economic assistance to the Saudi-led coalition waging a bloody campaign against Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen. 

"We are giving aerial support to a genocidal war that Saudi Arabia is waging against Yemen," Williamson, an author and spiritual adviser, told "Face the Nation" Sunday. "Tens of thousands of people have been starved, including children."

This couldn’t come at a more needed time. We have a one-month “Overton Window” right now to end the Saudi regime's war in Yemen in the House-Senate negotiations on the National Defense Authorization Act, by making the Senate agree to the House-passed Adam Smith-Ro Khanna Yemen War Powers amendment cutting off funding for all U.S. participation in the war. The Smith-Khanna amendment is basically the Sanders-Lee-Murphy Yemen War Powers Resolution that Congress already passed, now attached to an appropriations bill that Trump can’t veto, because it “funds the troops.” In addition, the Smith-Khanna amendment explicitly prohibits the supply of U.S. intelligence and spare parts for Saudi regime airstrikes in Yemen. House-Senate negotiations are expected to result in a deal on the provisions on the veto-proof bill by the end of August, while Congress is "on recess."

Unfortunately for us, the Saudi regime’s genocidal war in Yemen has largely dropped out of the U.S. corporate “news” again, as it always seems to do whenever Congress isn’t publicly fighting about it. So to have someone talking about it who’s being allowed to address millions of Americans on TV is a very big deal, as a former vice-president might have said.

Watch and share the CBS News clip of Marianne Williamson denouncing the U.S.-backed Saudi genocide in Yemen.

Urge Speaker Pelosi to send Ro Khanna to the House-Senate NDAA conference so he can insist that the Smith-Khanna Yemen War Powers amendment is included in the veto-proof bill that’s sent to Trump.

Thanks for all you do to help end the Saudi genocide in Yemen,

Sarah Burns, Hassan El-Tayyab, and Robert Naiman
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