Saudi warplanes attacked a funeral home in the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa today, killing at least 155 people and wounding over 500 others. Some reports, still awaiting confirmation, suggested the death toll had exceeded 200. This marks the single largest incident of civilian deaths in the Saudi war, topping a previous incident in which 131 were killed at a wedding.
The attack targeted the funeral of the father of the Houthi Interior Minister Jalal al-Rowaishan. It is unclear if the interior minister was present at the time of the attack, though the mayor of Sanaa was present and confirmed killed in the attack.
Saudi Arabia attacked Yemen in early 2015, aiming to oust the Houthis and reinstall former President Hadi, who had resigned earlier that year. The war has escalated far beyond what anyone expected, with many thousands of civilians killed, the vast majority of them by Saudi airstrikes.
This has added pressure to the nations supplying Saudi Arabia with its arms, in particular the US and Britain, and while so far Congress has rejected measures to scale back arms sales to the Saudis, every such incident adds to the pressure from voters and human rights groups to stop providing the bombs that are used in such war crimes.
Will Obama denounce this? Will that civilian turd Ashton Carter consider “kinetic strikes” against Saudi Arabia? Don’t count on it. Hypocrites.
Forget it. Obama is fully on-board because, uh, you know … venality. Don’t want to be Grassy Knolled. And anyway, BLM won’t protest about that. Can this “Peace Prize” be annulled yet? Bush was just dumb but what’s Mister Liberal Colored Community Organizer’s excuse?
He’s looking forward, not backwards.
And the world holds its breath waiting for John Kerry to call this a war crime.
Well, not really, because the whole world doesn’t want to die from lack of oxygen. The whole world knows that what John Kerry says has little or nothing to do with reality.
Americans go to football games and all kinds of fun littler events while “their” government sells weapons and bombs to nations that SLAUGHTER civilians. Think about this when you stand their this Sunday as the Star Spangled Banner blares out about how America is the last bastion of freedom in the world! Then just stand there and be a coward knowing all this and standing at attention for war criminals!
Remind me again why we once thought of the Democrats as the lessor evil?
Short memory span. People only saw the Democrats playing the right tune on Iraq in 2003, stupidly forgetting all the times in the past where it was the Democrats who were the warmongers–like in Vietnam and the former Yugoslavia.
There is really NO Democrat or Republican Parties in the USA. The REAL political split is between the War Party and the rest of us. Don’t tell me that when Republicans control the Oval Office AND the Congress that we haven’t been pushed into war before(2003 Iraq). This is attested to by the support that is being given to Clinton by top “Republicans” simply because of her warmongering stance that suits the War Party. When it comes to involvement in wars, BOTH parties have always jumped on the “patriotic” bandwagon for fear of being branded “unpatriotic” or some other negative term!
Absolutely!
These “barbaric acts” as Kerry likes to call the Russian actions against the terrorists in Syria, at the invitation of the legal government of Syria, seem to get glossed over by the neocon warmongering media.