Americans want war on Yemen to end: Analyst

A recent vote in the US House of Representatives to end the US-backed Saudi war on Yemen is sending a clear signal that the people of the United States and their representatives are not in favor of this war, an American scholar and political analyst says.

The House voted to end US support for the Saudi-led aggression against the Yemeni nation, approving a resolution that directs President Donald Trump "to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities in or affecting the Republic of Yemen." 

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Both chambers of the US Congress have approved a resolution to end US support for the Saudi Arabia-led war against Yemen.

"Today we took a clear stand against war and famine and for Congress's war powers by voting to end our complicity in the war in Yemen," Senator Bernie Sanders, a lead author of the resolution and a 2020 US presidential candidate, said after the House vote.

Kevin Barrett, an author, journalist and radio host with a Ph.D. in Islamic and Arabic Studies, told Press TV in a phone interview on Thursday that the fact of the matter is that American people were never really in favor of the aggression against the poor Yemeni nation, “but the representatives don't usually represent the people.” 

Barrett said the US representatives pursue a different agenda from that of American people. “That is the reason why so many of these wars for Empire get started and drag on despite the general lack of popular support … This is not what the American people had in mind when they sent Donald Trump to the White House on a mission to end imperial wars, interventions, regime changes and nations-building exercises, and concentrate the attention on securing our own borders here in the United States.”

Trump was made president by the Israeli lobby, according to Barrett. He named billionaire Sheldon Anderson, in particular, as the kingmaker behind Trumps rise to power.

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Barrett said ever since Trump's rise to power, he has been serving the Zionist lobby, which in turn supported the Saudis' vicious and genocidal assault on the people of Yemen,  “so that means Trump has to be in favor of it [the Saudi-led war on Yemen].”

‘Time to stage protests’

Barrett said it is high time for the American nation to stand up and let the voices of those opposed to the war on Yemen be heard.

Americans “never wanted this genocidal assault on Yemen,” Barrett noted. “We need to end this horrific policy and end the war in Yemen.”

The Saudi-led war has claimed the lives of about 56,000 Yemenis. The UN has warned that a record 22.2 million Yemenis were in dire need of food, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger. The UN says the famine in Yemen is the worst in more than 100 years.

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