SENATORS: Support the Yemen resolution

The truce in the war in Yemen expired last weekend, leaving civilians vulnerable to a renewal of hostilities. Forty members of Congress signed a letter on Sept. 30 calling on the U.S. to use its leverage with Saudi Arabia to end the blockade of Yemen and pursue peace.

Saudi is the richest Arab Country while Yemen is the poorest. Saudi has been bombing Yemen since 2015, targeting marriage celebrations, funeral gatherings, marketplaces, hospitals and town squares, mostly civilians. More than three million people have been displaced. Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. are complicit in the dire humanitarian crisis that exists in Yemen today. The U.S. alone has sold more than $2 billion worth of weapons to Saudi. The reason behind much of this is because of the concern that Saudi will spend their weapon money in Russia or China.

War and violence are never the answer. It only makes a select few rich.

I urge both Sen. Crapo and Sen. Risch to support the Yemen War Powers Resolution to help stop the destruction of the peoples of Yemen.

DONNA NORDSTROM

Hayden