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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Sun Jun 3, 2018, 08:39 PM Jun 2018

US mulling direct military assistance to help seize key Yemen port: report

Source: The Hill

The U.S. is considering giving direct military support to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in an effort to capture a key port in Yemen from Houthi rebels, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The UAE has reportedly asked the U.S. for assistance in helping the Saudi-led coalition retake Hodeidah, which provides support to the whole of Yemen.

U.S. officials told the Journal that the Saudis and the UAE will not act until they receive U.S. support, but Washington worries about the toll such a move could take on the war-torn country.

“We continue to have a lot of concerns about a Hodeidah operation,” a high-ranking official told the Journal. “We are not 100% comfortable that, even if the coalition did launch an attack, that they would be able to do it cleanly and avoid a catastrophic incident.”



Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/international/390491-us-mulling-direct-military-assistance-to-help-seize-key-yemen-port



Oh boy more war. Cadet Bonespurs feels the need to thump his chest.
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US mulling direct military assistance to help seize key Yemen port: report (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2018 OP
This won't end well. Scurrilous Jun 2018 #1
They're out of pediatric hospitals and refugee camps to bomb TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #2
Better to be on the side of the Iranians; who started this war? 7962 Jun 2018 #8
Bwahaaha TimeSnowDemos Jun 2018 #9
How much are the UAE paying Trump for this? Fozzledick Jun 2018 #3
I think Jared gets paid for this one. Midnight Writer Jun 2018 #5
These crazy fucks need to be stopped!!!!!!!!!!! bluestarone Jun 2018 #4
By "mulling", I take it Trump is on the toilet. I hope he has a good BM. Midnight Writer Jun 2018 #6
Oh, that war-mongering Hillary is at it again. nt. Yavin4 Jun 2018 #7
 

7962

(11,841 posts)
8. Better to be on the side of the Iranians; who started this war?
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 06:40 AM
Jun 2018

If Iran would not have started this war to over throw the legal government, there wouldn't be any of this going on.

 

TimeSnowDemos

(476 posts)
9. Bwahaaha
Mon Jun 4, 2018, 06:54 AM
Jun 2018

I love running into people who are as brainwashed as you are.

Iran didn't start the war lol.

Iran wasn't involved until relatively recently, remembering that Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen and murdering its civilians since 2009.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Scorched_Earth

Yemen and Iran are extremely different versions of Shia, which US politicians have made sure you didn't understand, and the main claims that Iran was there have been based on their religion, and nothing else, until recently.

On the other side, the dictators you support, have been committing vast war crimes in Yemen for almost a decade.

And who has benefitted?

Al Qaeda and Isis.

Says every single news outlet... Except American ones. Lol. That ensures that people like you support propaganda and dictators massacring women and children, and in the process helping AQ and ISIS.

They say thanks a lot for bombing those pedeadtric hospitals and refugee camps, to help install a Saudi stooge in Yemen (the person who the US and SA want in power ran unopposed in the last election and is backed financially and militarily by SA remember, and his opponents have fled or been murdered by jihadis... That's your good guy).

Anyway... Same as it ever was... Americans desperately supporting massacres and dictators and using easily disproven Western propaganda to justify it.

So thanks for the laugh. Shame it won't help any of the millions of women and children that the US and Saudi Arabia have been starving to death for years, but sure, you can't have it all.

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