September 6, 2003--Rep. Gephardt spoke at the 100th anniversary celebration of the Teamsters.
Posted on 10/15/2007 3:52:24 PM PDT by Libloather
GEP'S LOBBYING WAS A TURKEY
October 13, 2007 -- FORMER Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, a registered lobbyist for Turkey, failed several months ago to get his successor as top House Democrat, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to withdraw her support from a long-pending resolution condemning alleged Turkish genocide of Armenians in 1915.
The Bush administration had urged Congress not to offend Turkey, a U.S. ally, but the measure passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday. Pelosi has pledged House action this year on the genocide resolution that in the past was blocked by Dennis Hastert, her Republican predecessor as speaker.
In addition to Gephardt, the Turkish government also hired a top Republican lobbyist: Bob Livingston, former chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
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If Dick Gephardt asked you anything, would you do it?
Answers that question - explains why he was on a losing ticket as a presidential hopeful. Way back in the day, yep, yep.
Wasn’t Gephart all for this notion back in the day,,,,oh wait, that was BEFORE he left and started working for Turkey.
If Dick Gephardt asked you anything, would you do it?
Answers that question - explains why he was on a losing ticket as a presidential hopeful. Way back in the day, yep, yep.
Yes. Absolutely. That is, IF I was one of Dick’s famous imaginary friends...
Yes. Absolutely. That is, IF I was one of Dick’s famous imaginary friends...
See what Dick’s Dick’s imaginary friends do, do?
Sorry.
Imagine that...:~)
Seems when Clinton was in office he begged Denny Hassert to not bring it up for a vote because it would undermined foreign policy with Turkey.
Now with us at war and Turkey a strategic allie, Pelosi is going to let it come up for a vote.
Just think, the liberals in power, and they want NATO to side with them, and they just irked the Turks.
Nancy, now what?
Nancy: Spank me, pleeez!
I never thought I’d say “good for Pelosi,” but...
Good for Pelosi.
I’ve said this before and I’ll repeat it:
The present secular Turkish government needs our support far more than we need theirs. How long do you think it would be for that government to be overrun with jihadists were it not for U.S. support? I believe not very long.
I personally don’t care if they’re “offended” by a resolution that simply acknowledges an historical fact. It’s just a resolution in memory of those who died because they were the “infidel.” That’s all it is and it’s the right thing to do.
Just as long as you know that this resolution may cost American soldiers their lives.
How many more times do you suppose this resolution will be brought up? Every time the RATS need a diversion for whatever political reason? And why is the United States involved in this anyway? Are we to pass endless resolutions going back how many centuries to address wrongs that do not involve us? Steny Hoyer made your point yesterday when Brit Hume was trying to get him to give a coherent reason for the timing of this proposal. Hoyer said Turkey needs us more than we need them. My answer to that is how many American troops have to suffer and die because of such arrogance? Playing political games with the lives of our troops and at the expense of our own country is treasonous as I see it.
Listen to Rush Limbaugh's speech in Philadelphia last Thursday, and it is so clear WHY!!!
Pelosi, and the Democrats, will support anything that’s oppposed to US interests as long as a Repulican is the President. They condemn a vital US ally at the time of war but she refuses to call the mollas’ terrorist soldiers in Iran TERRORISTS:
SPEAKER WON’T DENOUNCE IRAN’S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10152007/news/nationalnews/pelosi__hill_clash.htm
Naive, ubber-lib or clueless?
The traitorous act whose goal is to undermine the WOT and our troops on the backs of the Armenians: An exercise in pure evil.
How many times must we 'remember'? There's a list of many times this genocide of 90 years ago has been addressed -
This was done now, not out of any concern for the genocide OR the Armenians, but was used as an excuse for undermining the WOT and our troops for personal political gain and to undermine a sitting president in a time of war.
To USE such a tragedy of other people to gain a personal - and traitorous - goal, is Evil personified.
The democrats have shown that genocide only concerns them when it's convenient. Else why did they deliberately turn a deaf ear to the cries for help while the majority of the Rwandan people - 800,000 men, women and children - were being hacked, shot and burned to death? Clinton stood in front of the mike and proclaimed "There is NO genocide happening in Rwanda!" He sent Albright to the UN to repeat the mantra.
For the democrats to pull this stunt now is a dastardly deed on two fronts. It's a treasonous attempt to undermine our troops in a time of war, and put our troops in jeopardy, while using someone else's tragedy to accomplish it. (Get it!)
I would think those who sympathize with the 90 year old genocide, would take umbrage at it being used in this contemptible way.
Those who take up the defense of these traitorous democrats fail to address the REAL TIME genocide Clinton and crew brushed aside.
Such support is either clueless, disingenuous or blatantly in bed with the treasonous and evil perpetrators of this transparent, in-your-face act to disrupt the success that our troops have fought and died for... an act that could disrupt the supply lines that bring food, water and equipment to our troops and ultimately, could cost lives.
A prime motivation for this is to undermine a sitting president in a time of war. If this isn't a seditious act, it certainly rises to the highest level of treason: "1. Treason, sedition means disloyalty or treachery to ones country or its government. Treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance; the crime of giving aid or comfort to the enemies of ones government. "
To defend this act as anything other than a political power play on the backs of both the Armenians and our troops is to lie in bed with the dogs - we are not fooled.
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P.S. I have a grandson, Airborne Task Force, in the Korengal Valley (The Valley of Fire), Kunar Province, Afghanistan. They are under daily fire and almost nightly mortared. They are 45 minutes from the nearest running water...45 minutes of deadly roads. Their very lives are dependent upon supplies and especially the equipment that helps detect and detonate IEDs. These supplies and equipment come via Turkey air and ground.
One cannot support the Pelosi gang in this and support our troops and our country. No fence straddle on this one.
You may not be concerned over what can happen to our troops - but I am.
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