Yemen war: senators push to end US support of Saudi Arabia
Republican Senator Mike Lee, independent Bernie Sanders and Democrat Chris Murphy said they would make the first attempt to take advantage of a provision in the 1973 War Powers Act that allows any senator to introduce a resolution on whether to withdraw US armed forces from a conflict not authorized by Congress.
WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration and GOP leaders started lobbying against a bipartisan resolution questioning the USA role in the civil war in Yemen before Sens.
But Senate aides said that authorization did not apply in Yemen.
"With this resolution, Congress can re-assert power over foreign policy decision-making", Lee said.
US forces are backing the coalition by refueling its aircraft and providing some intelligence support.
Saudi Arabia, concerned about Iran's support of the Houthis in a neighboring country, formed a coalition and intervened in support of Hadi. "What decisions do we make for a country that has been at war constantly for nearly 20 years?"
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According to the United Nations, the war has killed more than 10,000 people and injured more than 40,000 to date.
At a press conference Wednesday, Sanders and Lee admitted that getting a Senate vote on the resolution will be a challenge, but said they would both push their parties to do so and that the principle of needing congressional approval to engage in military conflicts should be recognized. But it didn't take place until the first month into Trump's administration.
It was not immediately clear how the resolution would move forward without support from the Republican leadership. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said the resolution shows that there is bipartisan support for ending US involvement in the Yemen war, which began under President Barack Obama in 2015 and has continued under President Donald Trump. But it also enables the president to act unilaterally in the event of "a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces", a provision successive administrations have expanded - well beyond its limits, critics argue - to confront new worldwide threats.
Should that happen, "then in fact the tabling will be a vote on the essence of what we're talking about", Sanders said.
The current war powers were issued in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and 2002 when the United States went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. "There is no legal authorization for the United States to be part of a war inside Yemen, and Congress can not continue to be silent". But recent administrations, through the use of drone strikes and so-called special operators, have expanded the interpretation of when a commander-in-chief can send USA troops overseas. Congress first passed an Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF), was on September 14, 2001, only three days after the devastating attacks on NY and Washington by Al-Qaeda hijackers.
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