'Only God can save us': Yemen blockade may cause world's largest famine in decades

a what?

Incorrect. Their oil business is small, because they hardly have oil. As I stated in my previous post.

Incorrect. 30 years ago there was a north and south Yemen at war.

Are you saying genocide is worth it, if they build colleges for the victors?

 

Try not even 450 barrels at best... WAY before the bottom fell out.

 

Yemen has proven crude oil reserves of more than 4 billion barrels ... When times were good Yemen was pumping 125,000 bpd.. and that was 90% of Yemen's exports.

In just the past six years Saudi Arabia provided Yemen with gasoline as humanitarian aid.

30 years a go there was a north and south Yemen. 17 years ago KSA was beefing up the Asir border to keep terrorists out.

60 years ago the Monarchists were fighting the Communists in Yemen.

The small businesses, colleges, hospitals and clinics were built before 2000.

 

neocon logic: if you are ruled by a dictator, we must kill hundreds of thousands of you so that you can be liberated into the hands of a new neocon controlled dictator, where anything of value in your country can be used for neocon purposes. Benevolence in the highest form

 

I meant that with prosperity, people tend to have less children. This is why the white population in the EU and the US has declined.

 

And here's the latest from our neo con diplomat in chief:

The US does not consider itself constrained by the United Nations Security Council and might seek “justice” in Syria on its own terms, the US representative to the UN, Nikki Haley, has said. ​

Nothing like US justice. Sounds like Libya 2011 doesn't it? In the meantime US Defense Sec. James Mattis said that Washington received a mandate from the UN to operate in Syria, which is an out and out lie. The US never received a mandate, because the UN has no legal capacity to issue a mandate towards a sovereign state. Syria has told the American coalition many times to leave their country, and to stop their genocide against the Syrian people.

Not only that they lied to Russia and said when ISIS is defeated they will leave Syria... but then again, we all know Washington lies. Let's see for how long though, it seems the world is getting fed up... and the petro dollar is being use less and less.

 

Oh cut it out Margot, your support of genocide is getting a little ridiculous. Yes the Saudis are going to lift the blockade in the area under Saudi control, but not in the area where the famine is. Not only that, the Saudis destroyed the airport, that way they can be certain the people will starve to death.

If you are truly an American as you say, then the burden is on your shoulders, since we are complicit. If you are a Saudi, then the burden you carry for their deaths is even greater.

 

Assad never used chemical weapons, they were all destroyed by Russia and confirmed by the UN and US. Chemical weapons have been found in ISIS's camps, and Al Nusra has been known to have them as well. .. but that's conveniently hidden from the American public by the MSM. As a matter of fact Erdogan closed down its major newspaper when they revealed that the ingredients for chemicals were stopped by police as they crossed the border from Turkey to Syria.

The sites for the latest alleged attacks were never examined by the UN, the corrupt officials conveniently accepted what was told them by the terrorists. It's just a bunch of lies from Washington, which seems to be the only thing our government knows how to do well. They even told Russia they would leave Syria when ISIS was defeated and are now changing their tune. Mattis also lied and said the US had a mandate from the UN to go into Syria, when a mandate was never given.

 

Yemens oil reserve is 1% of what Saudi Arabia has. Stop hyping things up as if they are floating in it. They are not.

And now the government is helped out, by Saudi Arabia and the US with causing a genocide.
Are you going that low to blame the victims here?

 

One pretty obvious reason.

UK: Leaders, academics raise alarm over Saudi 'crisis'



Now about what I have said to you a couple of times about the Sauds going off Hadi

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe...e-aims-yemen-war-shifted-171108080509650.html



But now the US who would have nothing to do with Saleh's attempts to destroy the Houthi when he was in charge and were quite upfront that there was nothing suggesting any kind of anything with Iran are now helping the Saudis and their accomplices and trying to sell this to the people of the US.

Hiding US Role in Yemen Slaughter So Bombing Can Be Sold as ‘Self-Defense’

where have we seen that one before?


and the UN does not believe this spin about Iran supplying the Houthi with a missile which it fired at Saudi Arabia. They say they have been shown absolutely no evidence to suggest this and seem suspicious that it was just an excuse to finish off the people of North Yemen with bombings and the mass starvation and death from cholera which is currently going on. Before the blockade the cholera epidemic was showing reduced numbers, now with nothing to halt it it is imagined it will grow exponentially.


Confidential U.N. Document Questions the Saudi Arabian Blockade That’s Starving Yemen

 

UN Documents for Syria - Security Council Report
www.securitycouncilreport.org/un-documents/syria/
19 December 2016 S/RES/2328, This resolution demanded UN access to monitor ... was on the impact of Syria's humanitarian crisis on neighbouring countries.

 

Yemen's small oil business was very important to to the economy of Yemen.. just as the 500 factories that had closed by 2013.

Blaming the terrorists groups is not blaming the victims. The terrorists are to blame. NO country, no government can't survive a half dozen competing terrorist groups.

Most Yemeni are under age 15.. They make up 46% of the population.

 

The main terrorists are AL Qaeda and ISIS and everyone says they are the only people benefiting from the foreign aggression which the civilians of Yemen are facing and starvation policy and deliberately letting cholera get out of control.

 

The 2008 American Embassy attack in Yemen in Sana'a, Yemen on September 17, 2008, resulted in 18 deaths and 16 injuries.[3]Six attackers, six Yemeni police, and six civilians were killed.

This attack was the second occurring in the same year, after a mortar attack earlier in 2008 on March 18 missed the embassy and instead hit a nearby girls' school. Islamic Jihad of Yemen, an al Qaeda affiliate, claimed responsibility for the attack.

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The Islamic Jihad of Yemen, an al Qaeda affiliate, has claimed responsibility for the attacks.[4] The group also threatened future attacks against other embassies, including those of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.[4]

It released a statement: "We will carry out the rest of the series of attacks on the other embassies that were declared previously, until our demands are met by the Yemeni government."

Meanwhile, on September 18, 2008, Yemeni authorities arrested 30 suspects allegedly connected to Al-Qaeda. Foreign Minister Abou Bakr al-Qurbi said: "The attack on the U.S. Embassy was retaliation by al-Qaeda for the measures taken by the government to fight the terrorists." United States Department of State spokesman Sean McCormack said that "the multi-phased attack bore all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_attack_on_the_American_Embassy_in_Yemen

 

Exactly and Al Qaeda are the people along with ISIS who everyone says are the people benefiting from the Saudi and friends attack and mass starvatiof of Yemen.

 

Boko Haram and al Shaabab are also in Yemen..

Apparently its fashionable to blame the US and Saudi Arabia for Yemen and Syria.

But the truth is that these countries have poor leadership and severe internal problems .. and they become a haven for vicious groups like AQ, ISIS. Boko Haram , al Shaabab and the Al Houthis.

If you had actually ever cared about Syria and Yemen, you would have seen these civil wars coming in 2007-2008.

 

it's not fashion. THEY ARE to blame for it.
In the case of Yemen, they are blocking an entire ethnicity in such a way that they are about to starve to death by the millions.

 

That is an outright lie putting together the houthis in among these creeps who follow to a slightly exaggerated way the Saudi Wahhabi way - the way that deliberately was used by the Sauds to create these extremist Wahhabi terrorist groups. Al Houthis on the other hand is a resistance group with massive support in Yemen including support from the Army. The country that you are supposed to be a civilian of does not see the Houthis as a terrorist group. My country does not see the Al Houthis as a terrorist group. Please stop trying to present lies.

Your friends the Sauds along with Qatar supported by the US, Britain and the French destroyed the revolution in Syria. They took the three no's of that revolution, No to violence even when facing violence, No to sectarianism and no to outside interference and they almost immediately brought in that unwanted outside interference, raised the violence to a catastrophe level and unleashed sectarianism like no one could ever imagine. Your people, the people you are supporting destroyed the revolution of the people of Syria bringing in every kind of terrorist they could find, providing them with weapons, training and money, bringing sectarianism to a country where it was not, making sure the country became destroyed and resulting in Europe being inundated with refugees of Syrians who clearly could fight on neither side in this gross war your people created.

Margot you are trying to take this subject way off topic. Yes, it is true that Saleh giving the US free reign to bomb and drone his people the vast majority of whom were innocent civilians and lying to his people pretending it was him did aggravate the situation in Yemen

https://www.thenation.com/article/wikileaking-covert-wars/

but right now we are talking about the reality that the Saudi Coalition has got to the point that it is intending on causing mass starvation in Yemen which the UN believes is going to result in the deaths of millions of its people.

I refer you to my post 210 http://www.politicalforum.com/index...ine-in-decades.518794/page-11#post-1068286043 which is dealing with the issues you are trying to avoid.

 

And dumb people tend to have more . . .



. . . and we're heavily outnumbered by them!

 

Poor leaders always claim outsiders did it. Outsiders didn't have planes , helicopters or barrel bombs. The barrel bombs are the main treason the 5 million Syrians left the country.

 

That does not come from Assad, You believe the original Syrian Revolutionaries were pro Assad. Oh dear. Stop trying to take this thread off topic. First you are trying to blame the Saudi genocide on Al Qaeda when Al Qaeda are on the Saudi/US side and now you are trying to take it off topic and talk about the Syrian war and pretend the original Revolutionaries supported Barrel bombs. Back on topic Margot.

You haven't touched this post yet.

http://www.politicalforum.com/index...ine-in-decades.518794/page-11#post-1068286043

 

Before the protests broke out Assad had arrested and brutalize some schoolboys for graffiti..

Assad spoke to the Syrian people.. and they expected the reforms that he had promised them for 3 years, Instead he announced a crackdown. They rioted all over the country. Assad started shooting them. 10,000 Sunni Syrian defected from the Army.

There weren't any Saudis or Americans involved.

 

I'm waiting for the next attention-seeking bygone pop idol to have another Feed The World bread-and-circuses shindig, then the next time there's a famine there will be even more to die. The stupidity of obsessive do-gooders - and ex pop stars - never ceases to amaze me.

 

The rebels never think about the destruction they cause.

In Yemen if they don't like the government they bomb a girl's school , attack the US embassy, take over the palace lounging around with guns like school boys,

 

One man's 'rebel' is another's 'freedom fighter'?