White House Weighs in AGAINST Armenian Genocide Resolution

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White House Weighs in Against Armenian Genocide Resolution

"On Wednesday afternoon, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on H.Res. 106, written and sponsored by Representative Adam Schiff. The resolution calls for recognition of the Armenian Genocide, in which 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the Ottoman Empire from 1915-1923. It also states that U.S. policy should reflect "appropriate understanding and sensitivity" concerning the event. Representative Schiff has argued that the United States cannot act against genocide today--such as in Darfur--if it is not willing to condemn all genocide."

"Opponents of the resolution argue that passing it at this time would cause serious tensions in U.S. relations with Turkey. Turkey could respond to the resolution by restricting or prohibiting U.S. access to airfields used to send equipment and supplies to Iraq. The Turkish President, Abdullah Gul, has sent a letter to President Bush opposing the resolution. The Turkish position is that people from all sides were killed in the fighting that took place, and that there was no singling out of Armenians by the government."

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/headlines.tt

(That is the entire story at this site. There is a thread in GD-P with a longer article and it could use some attention.)


This is outrageous. Turkey needs to admit and atone for the genocide carried out by their grandfathers less than 100 years ago.

Hitler reassured his officers that no one would care if the killed all the Jews because "Who today remembers the Armenian extermination?"

That was only 20-some years after the genocide.

Why is there no justice for the Armenian people?

(For the record, I have no Armenian relatives, am simply opposed to genocide against any people.)


This morning someone posted here at DU that BBC AMerica reported that Turkey is already sending troops into Iraq to fight the Kurds. They don't want Kurds in Iraq and Kurds in Turkey to demand some Turkish land on the border of Kurdistan. Will we let them slaughter Kurds, too, for the convenience of using their airfields?

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1. See the story in GD-P also. It got enough recs to make

the Greatest page but still has few comments, so it will sink unless kicked up from time to time. It's sad that posters if GD-P and GD ignore many important stories in favor of the trivial.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3596334&mesg_id=3596334