Senators to Vote for an Ending to the US Involvement in Yemen’s War

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The United States has accomplished a bipartisan effort to end the US involvement in Saudi Arabia’s aggression against the oppressed Yemeni people, an extraordinary attempt to force a vote on whether to counterman presidential military authorization.

The UN has described Yemen, impoverished country with the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.

More than 9,200 people have been killed and tens of thousands wounded in Yemen’s three-year-old war, which is seen as both a civil conflict and a Saudi aggression on Yemen.

Since 2015, Washington has provided arms, intelligence and aerial refueling for a Saudi-led coalition which has mostly conducted air strikes on the oppressed Yemeni people.

Senators Bernie Sanders, Mike Lee and Chris Murphy said in a joint statement that their resolution would force the first-ever vote in the Senate “to withdraw US armed forces from an unauthorized war”.

“We believe that, as Congress has not declared war or authorized military force in this conflict, the United States involvement in Yemen is unconstitutional and unauthorized, and US military support of the Saudi coalition must end,” said Sanders, who is an independent but ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.