Posted on 10/17/2007 6:10:47 AM PDT by teddyballgame
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House vote to label the century-old deaths of Armenians as genocide was in jeopardy Tuesday after several Democrats withdrew their support and sounded alarms it could cripple U.S. relations with Turkey.
The loss of support is a major setback to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, who have fiercely defended the resolution to Republicans and the Bush administration as a moral imperative in condemning the World War I-era killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks.
President Bush called Pelosi on Tuesday to ask her not to call for a House vote on the resolution.
"The president and the speaker exchanged candid views on the subject and the speaker explained the strong bipartisan support in the House for the resolution," Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami said, noting that Bush initiated the phone call.
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Good summary...now if the drive by media would just print this truth.
Is she just plain stupid?
I heard Murtha speak on the subject and could only wonder if he had a good twin who switched places with him today.
passing a bill condemning the genocide of Armenians could lead to a genocide of Kurds.
It better not pass. talk about stabbing your friends in the back. Pelosi has better chances on passing a Genocide bill on the mass killing of Cows. we need to apologize to the Cow species big time... and the Chickens! How about the mass killing of Turkeys every year? /sarc
Ummm... What is 'a headline which provokes smart-ass comments from the peanut gallery?"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Pelosi and the do-nothing Congress fail again. Good news.
Exactly! Who thought this up anyway??? Who cares at this point?
I’m not sure any of them HAVE a brain.
This move was one of the most clumsy and stupid political moves ever. Would the Dems have so readily conceived of passing a resolution condemning Germany for genocide? Of course not, Germany is an entirely different nation than it was in 1945, and the modern Republic of Turkey is a far cry from the Ottoman Empire of 1915.
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