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2020/5/21 21:17 (EDT)
©The Philadelphia Inquirer
Theres a powerful case to be made that the coronavirus crisis with its mounting evidence that earlier and more aggressive U.S. intervention in March could have saved thousands of lives isnt the first or only time that people have died needlessly because of Donald Trumps unfitness for the presidency.
For more than two years, civilians in Yemen where a humanitarian crisis caused by a ceaseless Saudi Arabian military campaign has killed tens of thousands and exposed millions to the risk of starvation and disease have successfully convinced top Americans in both political parties that it was past time for the United States to stop its substantial support for the Saudi bombing campaign.
The turning point well, what should have been the turning point came on Aug. 9, 2018, when the Saudi Air Force dropped a massive bomb on school bus carrying Yemeni summer school kids on a much-anticipated field trip. I was screaming in anger and all around me women were throwing themselves on the ground, Zeid Al Homran whose two sons were murdered by the bomb later told CNN. People were screaming out the names of their children. The 500-pound munition that killed his sons was a U.S.-supplied MK 82 bomb, made in America by the Lockheed Martin Corp.
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The latest twist should alarm scandal-numbed Americans. The State Department inspector general, Steve Linick, was fired earlier this month shortly before he could release a report into why Pompeo signed an emergency declaration to allow $8 billion in new American arms sales, mostly to the Saudis and their closest ally, the United Arab Emirates, one year ago not only bypassing certain opposition in Congress but even voices within the Trump administration who could see no emergency.
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Here is the article directly from the Philadelphia Inquirer website: https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/saudi-arabia-inspector-general-steve-linick-trump-mike-pompeo-20200521.html
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