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Just the offering of the resolution has had consequences for US relations with Turkey, and Pelosi et al need to be censured at least, and preferably expelled from Congress.

Grandstanding Has Consequences, It’s amateur hour in Congress.
National Review Online | 19.15.07 | Michael Rubin
Posted on 10/15/2007 4:27:52 PM EDT by Dane
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911571/posts

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) pooh-poohed the episode. This was not about Turkey, she explained, but rather ‘about the Ottoman Empire.’ Unclear, though, is why congressional Democrats felt the urgent need to condemn an entity that hasn’t existed for 85 years... In an election season, Pelosi, Biden, and Murtha, may have no greater goal than to garner headlines, but U.S. servicemen fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan do. Countering proliferation and fighting terrorism will dominate diplomacy regardless of who next occupies the White House... troops continue to sacrifice to defend U.S. national security, it is unfortunate that headline seeking congressmen seek to make their job that much harder.”

Turkey’s Top General: ‘The US Shot Itself in the Foot”
http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/3225.htm
Posted on 10/15/2007 8:06:41 PM EDT by cool2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911663/posts

“In an interview with the daily, Buyukanit said if the non-binding resolution that passed in a House committee last week was to be adopted in the House too, Turkish-US military ties would ‘never be the same again.’ The general expressed the opinion that world parliaments had no business in judging history. He said, ‘The US is a very important ally of ours, but an ally does not act like this.’ This week, General Buyukanit will visit Israel.”

Playing Politics With Genocide—
Dems ‘ devious attempt to impede our war effort in Iraq”
New York Post | October 14, 2007 | Ralph Peters
Posted on 10/16/2007 11:13:03 PM EDT by Ooh-Ah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912280/posts

Legislation similar to this has come up repeatedly in Congress, yet it’s always been defeated - in 2000, because of pressure from the Clinton administration. But if the resolution passes the House and Senate now, the Turks plan to evict us from Incirlik airbase in southeastern Turkey, to halt our military over-flight privileges and to shut down the supply routes into northern Iraq. That’s what the Democrats are aiming at... It’s a brilliant ploy - the Dems get to stab our troops in the back, but lay the blame off on the Turks... For the Democrats in Congress, it looks like a cost-free strategy. For our troops? When did the Dems give a damn about our troops?

When Amateurs Make Foreign Policy (In Respect To Turkey)
Investor’s Business Daily | 15 October 2007 | Staff
Posted on 10/15/2007 9:06:33 PM EDT by shrinkermd
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911697/posts

How puzzling, then, that the Democrat-led House Foreign Affairs Committee would choose this time to push through a resolution recognizing as genocide the murder of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians at the end of the first World War. We hope the rest of Congress — House and Senate alike — pass on the chance to vote on it. Today’s Turkey, founded on the ashes of the Ottomans, didn’t commit these crimes. We wonder: Will Congress now also condemn our own government for genocide against the American Indians? ...By the way, this isn’t the first time Congress has done this. It voted on similar resolutions in 1975 and in 1984. We’re already on the record.

Unfit for Command
.humanevents.com/ | 10/16/2007 | Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted on 10/16/2007 1:09:34 PM EDT by duckln
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912000/posts

“That Armenian-Americans wish to have their holocaust recognized is understandable. But that Democrats could not put off that request — for Congress to officially charge Turkey with genocide, 90 years ago — is not.”