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US Congress attacks Turkey
postaldave.com & foxnews ^ | 10-10- | postaldave

Posted on 10/10/2007 4:25:53 PM PDT by postaldave

After reading the foxnews story on congress and Turkey please tell me WHY the democrats are bringing up stuff that happened in WW I other then to try to lose the war in Iraq by pissing off Turkey, one of the few islamic states that help us.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 110th; armeniangenocide; eu; turkey
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I haven't read much about this but that totally shocks me. This is a VERY big deal. Turkey has it's problems and does things that we might not like but it is not a country we want to throw under the bus over something that happened before anyone i know was even born.
1 posted on 10/10/2007 4:25:55 PM PDT by postaldave
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To: postaldave

I take it you have no problem with Holocaust denial either.


2 posted on 10/10/2007 4:30:39 PM PDT by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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To: postaldave

OK, I’ll bite. What has Turkey done for us?


3 posted on 10/10/2007 4:31:03 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The only good Mullah is a dead Mullah. The only good Mosque is the one that used to be there.)
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To: postaldave
Because Congress if full of intellectual children (on both sides of the aisle)...along with the ugly souled / anti-American success ilk of the DEM leadership.

The WH has the only adults currently in Washington D.C.

4 posted on 10/10/2007 4:31:39 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

if you read the foxnews post is cited it said...

“Gates said that 70 percent of U.S. air cargo headed for Iraq goes through Turkey, as does about a third of the fuel used by the U.S. military in Iraq.

“Access to airfields and to the roads and so on in Turkey would very much be put at risk if this resolution passes and Turkey reacts as strongly as we believe they will,” Gates said. He also said that 95 percent of the newly purchased Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles are being flown through Turkey to get to Iraq.”


5 posted on 10/10/2007 4:33:30 PM PDT by postaldave (republicans need spending rehab before trying to control congress again.)
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To: postaldave

One of our few friends in the Islamic world and the Democrats want to throw them under the bus. Anyone else think Democrats are not the best choice to run foreign policy? Good at playing with the animals at the zoo, not good at life.


6 posted on 10/10/2007 4:33:36 PM PDT by Tarpon
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To: postaldave
please tell me WHY

When Congress Commits Treason

7 posted on 10/10/2007 4:34:21 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
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To: postaldave

Im with you on this


8 posted on 10/10/2007 4:34:24 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

It’s the plug in the anus of the Middle East. Pull out the plug and watch what happens...


9 posted on 10/10/2007 4:34:27 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: postaldave
Anything to gum up The War on Terror.
10 posted on 10/10/2007 4:35:43 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: AdamSelene235

it does not have anything to do with IF they did these things it is all about WHY congress is bringing this up right now.


11 posted on 10/10/2007 4:35:48 PM PDT by postaldave (republicans need spending rehab before trying to control congress again.)
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To: postaldave

Perhaps before you post you ought to do a bit of reading. This chapter of history belongs in the “Never Forget” category.

Oh, by the way. Most Armenians were Christian living in an Islamic state. Gee, maybe there’s a parrallel to today....

I for one, am all for it. Every year if need be.


12 posted on 10/10/2007 4:35:52 PM PDT by txzman (Jer 23:29)
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To: BallyBill

they can’t make good on their promise to force bush to get out so they figured out a way to force us to lose by cutting out the country in that area that is actually helping us.


13 posted on 10/10/2007 4:37:41 PM PDT by postaldave (republicans need spending rehab before trying to control congress again.)
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France did this and the Turks removed all support. For what? I didn’t here. Just heard that they reacted angrily.
14 posted on 10/10/2007 4:37:57 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: DevSix
The WH has the only adults currently in Washington D.C.

http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press_releases.php?prid=3

2-20-2000

Washington, DC -- In a powerfully worded letter to two of his leading Armenian American supporters, Republican presidential hopeful Texas Governor George Bush acknowledged the Armenian Genocide, called on Americans to join with him in remembering the crime committed against the Armenian people, and pledged as President to ensure that the United States properly recognizes this terrible atrocity, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

Governor Bush's letter, addressed to Michigan community activist Edgar Hagopian and New York businessman Vasken Setrakian, who attended Harvard with the Governor, also called for continued U.S. aid to Armenia, encouraged a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabagh conflict, and praised the "tremendous contribution of the Armenian community to the United States."

"We welcome Governor Bush's principled stand on the Armenian Genocide and join with him in calling upon all Americans to acknowledge both the facts and lessons of this crime against humanity," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "We would like, as well, to voice our community's gratitude to Vasken Setrakian and Edgar Hagopian, both of whom have done so much to share with Governor Bush the issues of pressing concern to our community. We appreciate their leadership and value their contribution to expanding the voice of Armenian Americans in the political process."

15 posted on 10/10/2007 4:38:16 PM PDT by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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To: postaldave

The Dems promised to restore our relations with our allies, but now they are trashing our relations with our closest Muslim ally.

If I had an opportunity to advise the Turkish parliament as to an appropriate response, my suggestion would be that they pass a similar resolution regarding American slavery, except that instead of condemning the US government, they should condemn the Democratic Party. Afterall, no one would disagree with a resolution condemning the US government for slavery, including the Democrats. In fact, they’d probably respond to such a resolution by passing their own resolution condemning the US government. And they love to trash the United States of America, so there is no point in that. What the Turkish parliament could do to really get under the Democrats’ skin, though, and to make their blood boil, would be to issue a resolution condemning the Democratic Party for their role in the establishment and perpetuation of the institution of slavery, and point out that while the US government has spent trillions of dollars to eliminate the harmful historic effects of slavery, the Democratic Party has still not made amends.


16 posted on 10/10/2007 4:38:39 PM PDT by Brilliant
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17 posted on 10/10/2007 4:38:59 PM PDT by RightWhale (50 years later we're still sitting on the ground)
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To: postaldave
(West) Germany owned up to the Holocaust and it hasn't harmed them a bit. Turkey ought to do the same.
18 posted on 10/10/2007 4:40:18 PM PDT by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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To: postaldave
You are right. We need Turkey's assistance and from preventing them from incursions to fight the Kurds. Democrats did this to piss off Turkey, so they could undermine the Iraq war. Take that to the bank. If they felt strongly about this, they could have condemned Turkey when they controlled Congress for 50 plus years.

The only freepers that support this condemnation of Turkey at this point and time IMO are: against the Iraq war, Libertarians, support Ron Paul, Democrats/Liberals posing as conservatives or ill informed about the consequences of this condemnation now

19 posted on 10/10/2007 4:41:10 PM PDT by jrooney (The democrats are the friend of our enemy and the enemy of our friends. Attack them, not GW!)
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To: postaldave
I have issued the command -- and I’ll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad -- that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness -- for the present only in the East -- with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space [Lebensraum] which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians? -Adolf Hilter
20 posted on 10/10/2007 4:41:18 PM PDT by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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