Posted on 10/16/2007 1:49:26 PM PDT by jazusamo
October 16, 2007
Democrats are split on the value of bringing a controversial Armenian genocide resolution to a floor vote.
Five House Democrats plan to hold a news conference Wednesday to urge their leadership not to bring the resolution to the floor, although the measure passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week with strong Democratic support.
Reps. Alcee Hastings of Florida, John Murtha of Pennsylvania, Robert Wexler of Florida and Steve Cohen and John Tanner, both of Tennessee, will participate in the news conference. They plan to urge House leadership to “reconsider its decision” to bring the Armenian genocide resolution to the floor.
The non-binding resolution would require the president to call the killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians between the years 1915 and 1923 “genocide.”
Turkish officials have said the resolution will harm relations between Turkey and the United States. Turkey acknowledges hundreds of thousands of Armenians died as modern Turkey grew out of the crumbling Ottoman Empire, but Turkish officials contend the killings were part of a civil war and that atrocities were committed on both sides.
Top administration officials have warned Congress that Turkey could respond to the resolution’s passage by blocking access to an airbase critical to the supply of troops in Iraq.
Despite the pushback, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has indicated she would bring the controversial resolution to the floor. California is home to a significant number of Armenian-Americans, including some who came to the United States after fleeing the World War I-era upheaval.
The House has passed similar resolutions in past decades.
President Ronald Reagan also once referred to what happened to Armenians as they were being pushed out of what became eastern Turkey as genocide. During his presidency, however, Bill Clinton also worked to block an Armenian genocide resolution from passing the House.
The treason coalition knows we are on to them, and in order to distract are now trying to weasel out by urging a no vote — It’s not going to pass.
Sunshine is the best disinfectant for Democrats’ evil plans.
Interesting that Murtha is opposing her publicly.
So it is yet another failure for the democrats, aren’t we glad that these traitors are so very impotent :)
Go ahead Democrats; kill each other . . . please.
“The non-binding resolution would require the president to call the killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians between the years 1915 and 1923 “genocide.”
Really? They can do THAT?
This has got to be stopped! Cooler heads please prevail!
That is very surprising to me.
Another thought. Nancy Pelosi would harm American troops so she can get the Armenian vote at home. Shame!
What the Democrats are thinking:
“On one hand, it will cause George W. Bush to lose the war... But there is also a bad side...”
- Help the enemy defeat America while simultaneously damaging Bush
or
- Piss off Moveon.org and George Soros
Looks like a no-brainer for a leftist.
No it doesn't work that way, a non-binding resolution in either house only has the effect of "an opinion of the house" not of law. It requires the President to do exactly nothing, nada, zip ... It actually means nothing, but the Turks are hyper sensitive to this, some would say even irrationally so.
“Aside from the typical style over substance that liberals live upon, is there any particular reason why nearly a hundred years later, the liberals are pushing this?”
Yes. It’s an incredibly evil and treasonous plan. This is an issue that is still, to this day, a very sore subject with the Turks. We use Turkey as a supply route to Iraq, and conceivably would use Turkey for fly overs to Iran, if that need arose.
If we manage to irritate the Turks, they’d close their borders to us, thus hampering the effort in Iraq, and making an Iran strike even more difficult.
That’s what you get from Democrats.
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that this resolution is just the latest in a series of Congressional efforts to sabotage the conduct of that war.
Build the gallows.....and they will come.
bast*rds!!!!!! This is pure un abashed subversion of the war effort...A would suspect that this would bring on a Bush veto....yes?
one has to wonder just how many Armenian-Americans there rae in Pelosi’s district who fled the WWI purge, as the article states.
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