Dozens of notable figures and ex-officials have signed an open letter to congressional leaders urging them to end the “U.S.-Saudi war against Yemen’s Houthi rebels,” Vox reports.
The letter was signed by former ambassadors to Yemen Barbara Bodine and Stephen Seche, Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams, and MIT’s Noam Chomsky, among others.
They wrote to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., urging them to do everything they could to “assure the passage” of a bill introduced by Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., “to end all unauthorized U.S. military participation in the Saudi-led way.”
The signatories note that “by directing the President to halt all offensive activities alongside Saudi Arabia against the Houthis unless such actions are first approved by Congress ... would spell the likely end to the broader conflict.”
According to the War Powers Resolution of 1973, if American forces are involved in “hostilities” outside the country “without a declaration of war or specific statutory authorization, such forces shall be removed by the President if the Congress so directs by concurrent resolution.”
An aide to Sanders told Vox that “successive administrations have basically defined the word ‘hostilities’ out of existence, and so Sen. Sanders believes it’s important that Congress reasserts itself and engages in a more open and robust debate about where, when, and how our nation fights in war.”
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