{"id":178001,"date":"2019-04-04T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/04\/yemen-war-powers-resolution-passes-house\/"},"modified":"2019-04-04T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T23:38:00","slug":"yemen-war-powers-resolution-passes-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/04\/yemen-war-powers-resolution-passes-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen War Powers Resolution Passes House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has strongly opposed this, so a veto is likely, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/04\/04\/house-rebukes-trump-with-vote-ending-us-support-for-yemen-war-1255866\">the War Powers Act resolution requiring a US withdrawal from Yemen<\/a> is the proverbial big f%$#ing deal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The effort was a top priority for House Democrats after they took control in January amid a worsening humanitarian crisis on the ground in Yemen, where Iran-backed Houthi rebels have sought to overthrow the country\u2019s government, prompting a Saudi bombing campaign that has lasted nearly four years.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It also reflects broad dissatisfaction on Capitol Hill with Trump\u2019s foreign policy \u2014 in particular, his posture toward Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe president will have to face the reality that Congress is no longer going to ignore its constitutional obligations when it comes to foreign policy,\u201d said Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The situation in Yemen is appalling, and the actions, politics, and ideology of our erstwhile ally, the House of Saud, is even more appalling.<\/p>\n<p>Our continued support for the maniacs in Riyadh serves no one but a handful of psychopathic royals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has strongly opposed this, so a veto is likely, but the War Powers Act resolution requiring a US withdrawal from Yemen is the proverbial big f%$#ing deal: The effort was a top priority for House Democrats after they took control in January amid a worsening humanitarian crisis on the ground in Yemen, where Iran-backed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,370,394,509,449,378,377],"class_list":["post-178001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-foreign-relations","tag-house-of-saud","tag-legislation","tag-middle-east","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}