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posted 18 October 2007 09:46 AM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she was reconsidering her pledge to force a vote on a resolution condemning as genocide the mass killing of Armenians starting in 1915, as President Bush intensified his push to derail the legislation.

“Whether it will come up or not and what the action will be remains to be seen,” Ms. Pelosi said in light of the decline in support for the proposal, which, though nonbinding, has angered Turkey and raised fears that the Turkish government could reduce its strategic cooperation with the United States.



Spineless Congress bends again.

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Two Jewish congressmen are working to keep the Armenian genocide bill from reaching the U.S. House of Representatives floor.

U.S. Reps. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) and Stephen Cohen (D-Tenn.), as well as three other opponents of the controversial bill memorializing the killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I, spoke harshly of its implications for U.S. relations with Turkey at a news conference Wednesday in Washington.



Apparently acknowledging and remembering a genocide is less important than strategic military interests

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josh
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posted 18 October 2007 09:59 AM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A couple of points. First, there's already a thread on the topic.

http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=13&t=003294

Second, the leading proponent of the resolution happens to be Jewish.

Third, this is a pathetic example of caving in to Turkish blackmail. At the same time Bush met with the Dali Lama over Chinese pressure.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1007/6387.html


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posted 18 October 2007 10:07 AM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Didn't realize there was another thread.

I am actually very disappointed with the Dalai Lama. It is terrific he was recognized, but I am seriously disappointed he met with Bush. I don't know how he can reconcile his concerns with the occupation of Tibet and human rights abuses in that country with the occupation of Iraq and the million deaths that has caused and the on-going human rights abuses there as well as the use of mercenaries.

I don't think I will ever see the Dalai Lama as a true person of peace again. In my view, he is just another self-serving politician ready to sleep with anyone who maybe can help his cause.

I linked the second article with regard to the Jewish members of congress because it is important to show that hypocrisy is everywhere and nothing is really that sacred when it comes to political expediency.


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posted 18 October 2007 11:29 AM      Profile for Jingles     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I thought the thread was gonna be about their denial of their genocide of Iraqis.
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posted 18 October 2007 11:39 AM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Iraq? They liberated that didn't they? Flowers and candies?
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posted 18 October 2007 12:21 PM      Profile for kropotkin1951   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Of course they did just as they liberated Upper and Lower Canada in 1812.
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