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To: Eleutheria5

Wow! I agree with France on this one, for a change.


10 posted on 12/22/2011 11:34:31 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk
Why?

Do you imagine there are still people around who were involved in killing Armenians?

When was the last official action taken by the Ottoman Empire? When was the first official action taken by the Republic of Turkey headquartered in Ankara?

How about Arabic and Kurdish speaking soldiers who participated in the killings? Why don't you ask the Iraqis and Syrians, and maybe the Iranians to apologize or something?

What about the Greeks ~ they were part of the Ottoman Empire for several hundred years. That was certainly long enough for Greeks to wend their way into the Porte (and be responsible for this).

It's not as cut and dried as the French want you to believe. In fact, at one time a chunks of France was part of the Islamic Caliphate ~ so some French people are certainly part of the chain of responsibility for the Armenian massacre. Did you ever ask yourself why the French want to make the slightest deviation from their governmental policy on the matter punishable with jail terms?

Forming NATO the member states agreed to give up old claims on the other member states. Obviously France didn't mean it.

15 posted on 12/22/2011 12:06:33 PM PST by muawiyah
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