Posted on 10/17/2007 6:33:18 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Chances for a U.S. resolution calling the mass killings of Armenians that began in 1915 genocide eroded dramatically last night, as sponsors dropped off in droves and senior Democrats urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to abandon her support. The number of lawmakers supporting the bill has slipped below a majority... Legislators cited those objections, along with warnings from the Turkish government and from Gen. David H. Petraeus...that the resolution would cause Turkey to scale back its assistance in the Iraq war...
The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the nonbinding resolution on a 27 to 21 bipartisan vote last week, but several of those who voted yes have since switched. Pelosi, who has a large population of ethnic Armenians in her district, reiterated her promise to bring the resolution to the full House for a vote...
But with the resolution's chances of passage apparently doomed, senior Democrats were urging Pelosi to declare victory with the successful committee vote...
Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.), who chairs the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.)...wrote to Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) yesterday urging them to drop the legislation....
In the run-up to the committee vote last week, all eight living former secretaries of state and three former defense secretaries warned Pelosi that the resolution would endanger national security in the Middle East...
The Turkish government has spent millions of dollars on lobbying against the resolution since it was introduced by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D), whose Southern California district contains one of the nation's largest ethnic Armenian populations. Schiff won his seat in 2000 after then-House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) pulled an Armenia genocide bill from the House floor, dooming the reelection chances of Schiff's Republican predecessor.
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Maybe we should call Pelosi’s Congress “Wanes World”..............
For Pelosi and her posse the hits just keep on coming.
And she still pursued it. Wow.
Only in the democrat la-la land, supported by a syncopatic press could this be written.
Actually, the damage they did with the committee vote almost requires that they bring this thing up to the floor and VOTE it down to show what a mistake the committee was.
Why is it that a few “dictators” in the house get to ignore a valid committee vote and pull legislation from the floor?
hey “Nancy-the-nanny(state)goat”!
“busted”!
Rush called it right again;-)
Why did Pelosi get the works?
That’s no one’s business but the Turks
You’re right... man, Pelousy certainly stepped in a big pile of xxxx this time. Here I thought such Congressional junkets as the one she took earlier this year were supposed to help congressmen become smarter about the world situation. I guess she’s just stuck on stooopid.
Thank goodness for the rise of internet communications and talk radio to counter the Demodogs stupidity. As little as ten years ago, this type of item would have sailed through a Congress, and Americans would might never have heard about the foolishness -— unless it were to become aware years later that a new war broke out because of some stupid diplomatic error on the part of the US.
On the other hand, Hastert withdrew a house resolution about Armenia because President Clinton asked him to withdraw it. There wasn't a war going on in Iraq at the time.
This is a good example of the willingness of a Republican congress to act in a bipartisan way.
SPEAKER HASTERT WITHDRAWS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION (2000)
The President believes that passage of this resolution may adversely impact the situation in the Middle East and risk the lives of Americans...The President has made plain his very strong concerns about the timing of this resolution
Istambul was Constantinople
Now it’s Istambul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone since Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
Than’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
Curse you! Now I’ll be singing that song all day long.
Good thing she's told us she likes to clean The House.
Then the Turks must be fools. 1) A similar resolution was passed in 1975 2) Who the hell cares about a non binding resolution from the idiots in the US Congress? Get a life.
Pelosi's an idiot for doing this, but the Turks are idiots for caring.
“all eight living former secretaries of state and three former defense secretaries warned Pelosi that the resolution would endanger national security in the Middle East... And she still pursued it.”
America’s security is to Mrs. Pelosi as capital is to moneylenders. She sees the necessity of maintaining a minimum level of security to protect and maintain vital interests, but she also sees our security a a tool or asset to be managed, leveraged, risked, and bargained with, for her own personal gain.
I am a gigantic fan of the Federalist Papers and Madison’s ideas on factionalism. Its nice to see someone else is familiar with these principles.
The damage is already done. They need to hold Nancy the Nazi’s feet to the fire on this. She has already done an immense amount of damage to our war cause.
Nancy has already done an immense amount of damage to our war cause, and she’s now helped drive the price of oil to record highs, just when we need to buy heating fuel.
If there was a resolution saying OUR troops caused Genocide in Iraq, I’d sure as H*ll give a da*n.
It depends on the situation.
And, if this resolution was already passed in 1975, it should never have had to be passed again! EVER.
(I didn’t go look it up, so I’m not confirming it ever was.)
Things like this DO matter. It’s a slap in the face. And young men and women die, and that matters. It’s REAL~
But something that happened a CENTURY ago, should have been left alone.
Are we going to keep rehashing what happened to the American Indians?
The President was right when he said “With all the pressing responsibilities facing the nation, One thing Congress should not be doing is sorting out the historical record of the Ottoman Empire,” he told a White House news conference.
Here is a link to that article and another link regarding what is just now unfolding. In this house, we just hope
for the sake of our cause and that of Iraq that it’s not to
late!
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SB5ID00&show_article=1
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