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EdwardBernays

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3. you got it all wrong
Mon Jan 11, 2016, 06:15 AM
Jan 2016

"The sales reflect President Barack Obama's pledge to bolster U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia and other Sunni allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council after his administration brokered a nuclear deal with their Shiite rival Iran."

http://www.voanews.com/content/sources-say-us-approves-sale-of-smart-bombs-to-saudi-arabia/3060071.html

Obama, Saudi King Pledge to Strengthen Ties

http://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-saudi-king-pledge-to-strengthen-ties-1441386435

U.S. Support for Saudi Strikes in Yemen Raises War Crime Concerns

Obama didn’t even mention Yemen in his U.N. speech, which faulted Russia’s military intervention in Syria on behalf of a government that stands accused of killing the vast majority of the more than 200,000 people who have died in Syria’s civil war.

U.S. support for a military campaign that is inflicting extreme hardship on civilians in one of the Mideast’s poorest countries provides an awkward counterpoint to the Obama administration’s stated commitment to stand up for the region’s oppressed people. At the dawn of the Arab Spring, Obama vowed to oppose “the use of violence and repression against the people of the region” and to support “the legitimate aspirations of ordinary people.”

Behind closed doors, the United States has sought to limit international scrutiny of rights abuses in Yemen. Last Friday, the United States blocked a proposal in a U.N. Security Council sanctions committee to have the committee’s chair, Lithuanian U.N. Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaite, approach “all relevant parties to the conflict and stress their responsibility to respect and uphold international humanitarian law and human rights law,” according to Security Council diplomats. The committee also recommended that Murmokaite ask the key players to cooperate with its investigations into potential human rights abuses in Yemen.

The humanitarian crisis in Yemen has received too little attention, and it directly, or indirectly, implicates us,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who noted that the airstrikes may violate legislation he authored barring the United States from providing security assistance to countries responsible for gross human rights abuses. “The reports of civilian casualties from Saudi air attacks in densely populated areas compel us to ask if these operations, supported by the United States, violate” that law, Leahy told Foreign Policy

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/15/u-s-support-for-saudi-strikes-in-yemen-raises-war-crime-concerns/

It seems we no longer care. tecelote Jan 2016 #1
we haven't cared since the 1950s EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #4
Did we care in the 1940s when we bombed Japan with nuclear weapons? oberliner Jan 2016 #24
well... EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #26
That was kind of my point oberliner Jan 2016 #27
Can't arms sales be stopped with executive order? JonathanRackham Jan 2016 #2
you got it all wrong EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #3
Our government loves cheap oil and LuvNewcastle Jan 2016 #5
It's a headscratcher EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #7
International law and the laws of war have long been malaise Jan 2016 #6
Laws are for the poor EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #8
Laws are for the poor, the weak malaise Jan 2016 #9
Or EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #10
Where is the UN? RandiFan1290 Jan 2016 #11
The UN is being blocked by the US EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #12
kick Liberal_in_LA Jan 2016 #13
I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times-- FUCK Saudi Arabia, and fuck the evil assholes Fast Walker 52 Jan 2016 #14
ehhh.. be careful EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #15
Thanks for that... it's such a horrible disgrace Fast Walker 52 Jan 2016 #18
Absolutely EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #20
The Great Satan Martin Eden Jan 2016 #16
It's not a new role for us EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #17
thanks-- hadn't heard of him but will check that out Fast Walker 52 Jan 2016 #19
It's also worth noting EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #21
gee, that sounds like a conspiracy Fast Walker 52 Jan 2016 #22
K & R for whole thread Duppers Jan 2016 #23
thanks! EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #25
Excellent thread, EdwardBernays. Thanks for posting it. nt. polly7 Jan 2016 #28
Thank you EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #30
Kick Fast Walker 52 Jan 2016 #29
Thanks! EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #31
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