<div dir="ltr">This particular "mistake" could be stopped by turning four of these five Senate Democrats: Mark Warner of Virginia, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Bill Nelson of Florida, Joe Manchin of West Virginia. These five Senate Democrats voted on June 13 to keep arming Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, when 43 Senate Democrats and 4 Senate Republicans voted to stop arming Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. 47 plus four equals 51.<div><br></div><div>Why isn't there more interest in stopping this catastrophe, when doing so would only require turning four Senate Democrats? </div><div><br></div><div><div>===</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><div><span style="text-align:left">(202) 448-2898 x1</span></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">@clairecmc, @SenDonnelly, @Sen_JoeManchin, @MarkWarner, @SenBillNelson: #StopArmingSaudi War Crimes in Yemen<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/senate-stop-arming-saudi?r_by=1135580" target="_blank">https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/senate-stop-arming-saudi?r_by=1135580</a><br></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">House: Use War Powers to Save A Million Yemeni Kids from Cholera & Famine<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/force-vote-on-saudi-war?r_by=1135580" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/force-vote-on-saudi-war?r_by=1135580</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Yes of course, everything we do is a mistake, by “we” I include our allies with whom we collude.
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<div>Our intervention in Iraq was a mistake, just as our war in Vietnam was a mistake, every time we get caught killing civilians they are labeled “collateral damage” and a mistake. You know, “oops I missed my target, oops I accidentally slaughtered
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<div>It begs the question, when are “we” the American people going to put a stop to USG “mistakes? Mistakes that are killing millions of people, over there, and impoverishing and killing people here?”</div>
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<cite class="gmail-m_6315831155417046416m_4970423364729367959el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:CNN,"Helvetica Neue",Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:700">Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) </cite>A deadly airstrike on residential buildings in Sanaa
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The strike killed 16 people, including seven children, Yemen's rebel-controlled health ministry said Friday.</div>
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The attack, which flattened two buildings in Sanaa's southern district of Faj Attan, comes amid escalating violence in the war-torn country.</div>
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A Saudi-led coalition spokesman expressed "deep sorrow for this unintentional accident and for the collateral damage among civilians."</div>
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The intended target of the strike was a command-and-control center for Houthi rebels, spokesman Col. Turki al-Malki said, calling it "a legitimate military target."</div>
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The facility, al-Maliki said, was intentionally set up in a residential area to turn civilians into human shields.</div>
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Saudi Arabia, backed by a coalition of Arab states, launched a military operation in March 2015 against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who toppled the internationally recognized leadership in Yemen.</div>
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In the last week alone, the United Nations estimates that 58 civilians have been killed in airstrikes, including 42 in Saudi-led coalition bombings. That death toll is higher than in the entire month of June, when 52 civilians were killed, and in July, which
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Since fighting began, the UN Human Rights Office has documented 13,829 civilian casualties, including 5,110 people killed. The numbers, based on casualties individually verified by the UN's Yemen Office, are believed to be a fraction of the overall death toll.</div>
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Friday's attack came two days after <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/middleeast/yemen-airstrike-hotel/index.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,101,152);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">an airstrike hit a hotel</a> on the
outskirts of Sanaa, leaving dozens dead. The United Nations has launched an investigation into that attack.</div>
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Two airstrikes hit the area in close succession at around 3:30 a.m., a witness told the United Nations. The first struck a security checkpoint purportedly manned by Houthi rebels, and, several minutes later, a second strike hit the Istirahat Al Shahab hotel.</div>
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Most of those killed at the hotel died in their sleep and were buried under rubble, Mohammed al-Sarhi, a farmer, told CNN.</div>
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At least 33 civilians were killed and another 25 injured in the attack, the United Nations confirmed. Yemen's health ministry, which is controlled by Houthi rebels, says 51 people died. The health ministry is based in Sanaa and is not part of the internationally
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