A treasured family vacation photo snapped by Khashoggi.
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The Hill: Senate advances Yemen resolution in rebuke to Trump
"The Senate issued a sharp rebuke Wednesday to President Trump, easily advancing a resolution that would end U.S. military support for the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen’s civil war despite a White House effort to quash the bill.
The administration launched an eleventh-hour lobbying frenzy to try to head off momentum for the resolution, dispatching Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Capitol Hill in the morning and issuing a veto threat less than an hour before the vote started.
But lawmakers advanced the resolution, 63-37, even as the administration vowed to stand by Saudi Arabia following the outcry over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
“There’s been a lot of rhetoric that’s come from the White House and from the State Department on this issue,” said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. “The rhetoric that I’ve heard and the broadcasts that we’ve made around the world as to who we are have been way out of balance as it relates to American interests and American values.”
From Der Sand Bunker |
The vote advances the resolution out of the Foreign Relations Committee, making it available for action before the full Senate. …
“We made clear that they’re considering debating a resolution on the Senate floor which we think is just poorly timed,” Pompeo added in his comments to the press. “It would encourage the Houthis. It would encourage the Iranians. It would undermine the fragile agreement for everyone to go to Sweden and have this discussion.”
And the White House warned that it “strongly opposes” passage of the resolution and that advisers would recommend Trump veto the bill if it reaches his desk.
“The continued cooperation of the United States allows the administration to support the diplomatic negotiations to end the war, ensure humanitarian access, enhance efforts to recover United States hostages in Yemen and defeat terrorists that seek to harm the United States,” the White House said in a statement."...….
Khashoggi was a "journalist" like John Wilkes Booth was a Post theater critic. The Washington Post only hired Muslim Brotherhood propagandist Khashoggi because bin Laden's other best friend and propagandist Anwar al Awlaki was unavailable. It seems someone assassinated him with a drone to keep him from talking about his days of working with Bob Mueller.
Mueller by the way had al Awlaki released despite a federal arrest warrant--yet he's prosecuting Jerome Corsi for forgetting an email--an email which Corsi gave him. Weird contrast, huh?
Did you ever notice how bin Laden was killed not just before Barry's re-election campaign, but also before the push to give Iran nukes and money? The last thing Obama wanted was a captured bin Laden singing about all the help Iran gave him.
Mueller by the way had al Awlaki released despite a federal arrest warrant--yet he's prosecuting Jerome Corsi for forgetting an email--an email which Corsi gave him. Weird contrast, huh?
Did you ever notice how bin Laden was killed not just before Barry's re-election campaign, but also before the push to give Iran nukes and money? The last thing Obama wanted was a captured bin Laden singing about all the help Iran gave him.
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