Posted on 10/16/2007 5:14:04 PM PDT by decimon
WASHINGTON — A House vote to label the century-old deaths of Armenians as genocide was in jeopardy Tuesday after several Democrats withdrew their support and sounded alarms it could cripple U.S. relations with Turkey.
The loss of support is a major setback to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, who have fiercely defended the resolution to Republicans and the Bush administration as a moral imperative in condemning the World War I-era killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks.
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If so the Armenian Diaspora can only rejoice at a U.S. - Turkey split.
I was alerted to this problem by Professor Huntington's book, Who Are We? Tufts University professor Tony Smith was just one of several referenced by Dr. Huntington.
As the Armenian Diaspora and Armenia enter the most critical phase, litigation against Turkey, the problems for America can only grow worse given the Armenians' political connections especially to our Democrat Congress.
How will the Armenian National Committee of America take this new development?
Their web site has demands to pass the resolution. Nothing yet about this new development
(Don't anybody get their bowels in an uproar and start screaming, "Denier." No one is denying the Armenian genocide.)
Nope. Damage has been done but you can’t blame us we didn’t vote on it.
Hence my “victory” point.
The thing is, the Dems have managed to do about *nothing* of what they promised their voters.... they can’t even override a veto.
Dems are at a loss on what to do if we are winning in Iraq, their whole strategy is dependant on our losing. What a bunch of scum they are.
Poor Nancy. To the Leftarian freaks her credibility must be as stretched as the skin on her face.
Rush has to laughing his *ss off right now.
Great news! Pelosi foiled again!!:)
See, what the Dhimmis didn’t grasp is that the Greek word for genocide (which is Latin: gens (clan, people, nation) + cide (murder) is
DEMOCIDE (demos + cide, well, cide is still Latin, I guess, so it’s half Greek/half Latin)
So the Dhimmirats Genocide Bill turns out to have been Democide! You’ve got to respect a bunch of politicians who can make fools of themselves in two (one and a half) languages all at once.
Does anyone know what the Armenian is for Dhimmirats?
Adam Schiff is crying in his Zankou Chicken
You might have a slight case of BDS!
Read your post again, and then explain to me how Pelosi’s and this treasonous and deranged Democrat majority House of Representatives failed political stunt is now somehow all really “Bush’s fault” by virtue of him ignoring them.
I say he ignored them to the perfectly correct degree, and produced the desired outcome.
Maybe Glendale CA will secede.
There is naught but the ballot box.
By the way, it was brought up before. And it did pass. In 1976 and again in 1984.
Thus, there is only one reason for Congress to bring the issue up again -- to embarass Turkey and make it difficult for the President to prosecute the war in Iraq.
Draw your own conclusions.
The gang that cant shoot straight
We know why they didn’t bring it up when Willie was there.
But what was going on those other times? There had to be a political reason.
But they got the circular firing squad thing down pat.
Now if only the Pubs would learn to stay outside the circle.
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