Saudi Arabia is main a struggle in opposition to Yemen—fought with U.S. weapons, logistical, and political help—that has killed 1000’s of civilians in aerial bombardments and tens of thousands more in an financial blockade that has exacerbated famine and intensified human struggling on a mass scale. […]
On Tuesday, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes reportedly told contributors in an organization earnings name that the deliberate sale of seven,500 Paveway precision-guided bombs to “a buyer within the Center East [who] we will not discuss” had been faraway from the books in anticipation of the moratorium.
Nonetheless, Hayes provided this sanguine prognostication: “Look… peace will not be going to interrupt out within the Center East anytime quickly. I believe it stays an space the place we’ll proceed to see stable progress.”
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“It should concern each particular person, as a result of it’s a debasement of our widespread humanity. It should concern each group, as a result of it tears at our social cloth. It should concern each enterprise, as a result of it distorts markets. It should concern each nation, as a result of it endangers public well being and fuels violence and arranged crime. I’m speaking concerning the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which have to be known as by its true identify—fashionable slavery.”
~~President Barack Obama (2012
On this date at Day by day Kos in 2003—Battle opposition nonetheless rising:
Yet one more ballot is exhibiting elevated opposition to Bush’s new struggle in Iraq. The USA As we speak/CNN/Gallup Ballot has opposition at 43 %, up from 38 % Jan 10-12. Precise help from the invasion is at 52 %.
After all, these numbers might transfer over to the “help” column if both the US or UK current proof of Iraqi non-compliance. As of but, all we’re listening to is similar “belief us, we now have proof” bullshit, whereas all CIA results in the weapons inspectors have come up empty.
There may additionally be motion within the polls following the president’s SOTU handle, although it is going to be attention-grabbing to observe how lengthy any such “bounce” will final. And it’ll even be attention-grabbing how the markets react, not simply the Wednesday after the speech, however two weeks out. Bush might declare to disregard polls, however it’ll be more and more troublesome to disregard his Wall Avenue supporters. Battle jitters alone proceed to pound the market at the moment.
