WIN WITHOUT WAR: Ban Saudi & Emirati arms sales

Right now, because of Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the United States remains complicit in the catastrophic war in Yemen — the devastation of which is only deepening during the coronavirus pandemic.

Just about a year ago, Trump and Pompeo bypassed Congress — possibly illegally — to sell $8 BILLION worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Last week, at Pompeo’s request, Trump fired the State Department Inspector General charged with investigating that sale.

But Trump and Pompeo are merely taking the corrupt U.S. alliance with the UAE and Saudi Arabia to its logical, dangerous conclusion in order to keep profits flowing to their arms dealer buddies. We’ve got to step in and demand Congress break the cycle.

Add your name NOW to urge Congress enact a five-year ban on arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.



This White House is cloaking U.S. foreign policy in a veil of corruption and cronyism. This weekend, The New York Times reported, “the Trump administration pursues [foreign arms sales] mainly for the profits they generate and the jobs they create, with little regard for how the weapons are used.”

But the U.S. government’s cozy ties to the arms industry come at a steep moral price: more than 100,000 people have already died in Yemen. In 2018, when the Saudi-led coalition killed 40 children and injured 79 others in a school bus bombing, they used Lockheed Martin bombs. Of course, not to be outdone by their competitors, researchers at Mwatana for Human Rights have traced weapons used in several deadly attacks on Yemeni civilians to Raytheon.

The sale of U.S. weapons has enabled the catastrophic war in Yemen and other Saudi and Emirati human rights abuses for far too long. Yet, while the Obama administration paused some arms sales and repeated bipartisan majorities in Congress voted to block them entirely, the Trump administration has pressed on, welcoming arms lobbyists through the door.

Now, Trump and Pompeo have fired the State Department Inspector General investigating the legality of past weapons sales that might expose these deals for what they are: illegal money made from human suffering.

There must be repercussions for this corruption of U.S. foreign policy: It is time to end the U.S. role in propping up human rights abusers and an overpowered arms industry.

Sign Now: Demand Congress enact a five-year ban on arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

If this all sounds familiar, you wouldn’t be wrong — we’ve been here before. And like we did in past years, we’ll again raise our voices against a warmongering U.S. foreign policy that hurts innocent people and puts the world at risk.


What we didn’t have then, that we’ve got with us now, is mounting evidence of the Trump administration’s corruption — and growing discontent from members of Congress and the U.S. public that will fuel the fight to hold them accountable.

Thank you for working for peace,

Michael, Erika, Maha, and the Win Without War team


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