Von: "Richard Forward" <archforward@gmx.net>
Betreff: Fw: This might be a good headliner, Sanders: Next month, I'll force vote to end the Yemen war
Datum: 17. Oktober 2018 um 00:09:45 MESZ
An: "Bea and Jeff Schevitz" <Dr.jschevitz@t-online.de>, "John Culp" <john.culp@web.de>, "Patricia Biondo" <PPBfrei@aol.com>, "Marion von Hofacker" <marion.hofacker@t-online.de>

Hi Jeff, Hi Gang!
 This might be a good headliner on the website, before finding something for the pre-election.  Bernie Sanders: Next month, I'll force vote to end the Yemen war. 
 
I'm home again and need names and addresses for Thanksgiving.  One month to go, and a lot of silence. 
Richard Forward
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Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2018 um 22:39 Uhr
Von: "Just Foreign Policy" <info@justforeignpolicy.org>
An: archforward@gmx.net
Betreff: Bernie Sanders: Next month, I'll force vote to end the Yemen war
 
Dear Richard, 
Share Bernie’s statement

Share what Bernie told CNN

Urge your Rep. to sign the Khanna-Pocan letter demanding the Administration disclose what it knows about the Saudi assassination of
Jamal Khashoggi.
In the wake of the Saudi regime’s assassination of Saudi-American journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Senator Bernie Sanders is promising to bring back SJRes 54 for a vote next month to end U.S. participation in the catastrophic Saudi war in Yemen. This is key because we need Americans to look anew at U.S. participation in the Saudi war in Yemen now in light of the Saudi regime’s assassination of Khashoggi, and we need Americans to engage Congress now to help make sure we win the Yemen war powers votes in the House and Senate in November. 
Sanders said: 
"The recent disappearance and likely assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi only underscores how urgent it has become for the United States to redefine our relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Since 2015, the Saudi-led war in Yemen has become the world's largest humanitarian disaster. Earlier this year, along with Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), I introduced Senate Joint Resolution 54, which uses 1973 War Powers Resolution to compel the Trump administration to withdraw U.S. involvement in this war. This past March, the Senate tabled this resolution by a vote of 55-44. This crisis has only gotten worse since then, and our complicity even greater. Next month, I intend to bring SJ Res 54 back for a vote to give the Senate another opportunity to end U.S. support for this catastrophe, to reassert Congressional authority over matters of war, and to show the Saudi government that they do not have a blank check from the United States to continue human rights violations."
Bernie told CNN: 
"I think one of the strong things that we can do is not only stop military sales, not only put sanctions on Saudi Arabia, but most importantly, get out of this terrible, terrible war in Yemen led by the Saudis."
 
Meanwhile, Ro Khanna and Mark Pocan are organizing to force a vote to end the war in the House in tandem with the vote that Bernie is going to force in the Senate. Khanna and Pocan are pressing U.S. intelligence agencies to publcly disclose what they already know about the Saudi regime’s plotting to harm Khashoggi.
This morning, the New York Times reported:
“The Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Khalid bin Salman, left Washington last week, returned to Riyadh and will not be returning...Prince Khalid is the crown prince’s younger brother.” [...] “American intelligence agencies had previously intercepted communications of Saudi officials discussing a plan to draw Mr. Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia from his home in exile in the Washington area and then detain him...Those intercepts were shared with senators in classified materials last week, making it impossible to suppress them. It is highly unlikely an attempted rendition of Mr. Khashoggi could have been carried out without the knowledge of Saudi rulers.”  
This strongly suggests that the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. was involved in the plot to abduct Khashoggi and that the U.S. government already knows it, because it appears that the U.S. government has intercepted communications about the plot between the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia and his brother, who was the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Khashoggi tried to get the documents he needed from the Saudi government in the U.S.; they told him he had to go to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to get the documents, and that's where they killed him. This Saudi ambassador is the same man whose "assurances" regarding supposed Saudi efforts to reduce civilian casualties in its war in Yemen were cited by Members of Congress as an excuse to continue supporting the war. 
That’s why the Khanna-Pocan effort to force the U.S. government to disclose what it already knows about the assassination is important for our effort to end U.S. participation in the Saudi war in Yemen.  
Urge your Rep. to sign the Khanna-Pocan letter demanding that the U.S. government disclose what it already knows about the Saudi regime's assassination of Khashoggi.  
Thank you for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just, 
Robert Naiman, Sarah Burns, and Hassan El-Tayyab Just Foreign Policy

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