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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“Just as long as you know that this resolution may cost American soldiers their lives.”
Of course, I care if that were the case.
But because there have always been “good reasons” for killing that resolution every time it’s been brought up (and long before 9/11), I just don’t believe the latest “good reason.”
I have no doubt that some of the Democrats have an agenda. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a long overdue resolution.
If Germany had always denied the Holocaust and a resolution came up year after year but killed every time because we “mustn’t offend the German government” with a resolution acknowledging that the Holocaust did, in fact, happen, I think you might have a different opinion.
If you have sympathy for the Armenians on this issue, then you should be incensed that the Pelosi gang is using them purely for their own political and personal power gain. (They do not give a rats rump about what happened a century ago, perpetrated by the long gone Ottoman Empire.)
One cannot support the Pelosi gang in this and support our troops and our country. No fence straddle on this one. What IS, IS.
Geppie looks like you are going to be in the middle of Pelosi WAR.
I have to check the information but I understand from Glenn Beck’s show, that an armenian priest is actually opposed to this resolution.
Would you get back to us on this? That would be valuable...
Thanks in advance.
The media has a formula that they follow on deciding which news to cover. It comes down to simple numbers. If they get x amount of emails, phone calls, snail mail on a subject, they will cover it whether they want to or not, as they know when a story hits that tipping point, it WILL be covered by the other media...
We need to freep them big time - AND all our reps in DC, that we are not fooled by this seditious act.If the rest of the reps in DC "understand that we understand" then they may get the backbone to defeat it when it comes up for vote on the floor.
This is one time we can actively help our troops
The turks of years past were barbaric. But the Turks of today are trying to hold their own as a secular democracy. What good does it do anyone to have the Congress pass a resolution to antagonize our nation's good relations with it's current government?
Currently so much of the resources being used in Iraq by the US military comes through Turkey. Supplies are delivered by Turkish truck drivers. Turkey is, though not perfect, a model nation compared to those to the south.
What good does this do us to bring it up now? Why would any Armenians even CARE that the US is doing this? Are Armenians somehow better off if the US mission in Iraq fails?
Compared to Democrats of today, he really wasn’t all that bad a guy. He had some measure of patriotism in him.
The current Democratic party is the party of Treason.
“Why would any Armenians even CARE that the US is doing this?”
If most of your ancestors were murdered in a genocide that the world ignored and the ancestors who did survive were labeled “combatants” or “anti-muslim” as though they brought it on themselves, you might feel a little differently.
The resolution will probably be killed again because the powers that be are so dead against it.
BTW, notice that Bush was quick to call (rightly so) Darfur a “genocide.” The double standard is what bothers Americans of Armenian descent. There’s a book entitled “Forgotten Fire” that pretty much expresses it.
They were, actually.
But I don't know who they are and the people who did it are long dead. As an American, I would not want it to be brought up at the expense of the nation's foreign policy and the WOT.
Darfur is now. The people doing it are here now.
The people who perpetrated the Armenian massacres are long DEAD.
Aren't conservatives suppose to oppose collectivism?
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