Here’s a couple of posts on another Turkey thread where it’s claimed there are Republicans sponsoring or voting for this bill.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911227/posts
To: arthurus
“The whole Kurdish showplace of freedom and orderly development in Iraqi Kurdistan has been jeopardized just because Pelosi and the Left felt it necessary to punish Turkey for the unforgivable sin of being an ally of the United States.”
In case you don’t know, the resolution is bipartisan that has many Republican cosponsors and it’s come up every year for many years — and killed every year for one reason or another.
The fact is roughly 1.5 million Christian Armenians were murdered by the Turkish government just for being “infidels,” which Turkey has always denied.
So let Turkey be angry about it. The truth is they need our support far more than we need theirs.
162 posted on 10/15/2007 4:32:46 PM PDT by tabsternager
To: txroadkill
i’m aware of all that. frankly since there are Republicans who have signed on to this as well over the years (Dennis Hastert tried to bring it to the floor as well), i think it is more and issue of coming through for the Armenians. it has been tried and tried and tried - and never passed. no guarantee it will be this time. as much as i detest the Dems and their war against this war, i don’t this this is calculated as part of it. by the way, i have a cousin at Centcom and one in Kuwait, both in the Air Force and working hard to win this war.
42 posted on 10/14/2007 5:56:03 PM PDT by avital2
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That may have been true on previous votes on the matter, but I’ve read that this time it got 27 votes for in committee, and that is the exact number of Dems on the committee. I was lead to believe it was a party line vote.