AntiWar.com reports: “Gabbard Calls Trump ‘President of Peace’ Despite Yemen Bombing Campaign, Support for Gaza Slaughter.”
KATHYKELLY, kathy.vcnv@gmail.com, @voiceinwild
Kelly is board president of World BEYOND War and just wrote the piece “The Real Outrage in Yemen: As Democrats decry the Trump Administration’s national security lapse, the United States is engaged in an actual killing campaign.”
She writes: “Every Saturday morning for the past eight years, a group of New Yorkers has assembled in Manhattan’s Union Square for the weekly ‘Vigil against the War in Yemen.’ …
“The World Food Program says ‘a child in Yemen dies once every ten minutes from preventable causes, including extreme hunger.’ …
“President Trump commented that there was ‘no harm done’ in the administration’s use of Signal chats, ‘because the attack was unbelievably successful.’ But the Democrats appear more shocked and outraged by the disclosure of highly secret war plans over Signal than by the actual nature of the attacks, which have killed innocent people, including children.
“In fact, U.S. elected officials have seldom commented on the agony Yemen’s children endure as they face starvation and disease. Nor has there been discussion of the inherent illegality of the United States’s bombing campaign against an impoverished country in defense of Israel amid its genocide of Palestinians.”