Bush lobbies AGAINST calling the Turkey mass murder of Armenians as genocide., Somebody contact Mahmoud Ahmadinejad STAT! Options

[blaarg]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/10/us....ians/index.html

President Bush and key figures in his administration lobbied hard Wednesday against a House resolution that labels the killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I as "genocide." "We all deeply regret the tragic suffering of the Armenian people that began in 1915. This resolution is not the right response to those historic mass killings," Bush said at the White House.

Wow. And we give Ahmadinejad so much shit for "denying the holocaust" and here Bush is doing something similar...

And before some people get all riled up, I know that saying that the holocaust never happened and recognizing the fact that mass killings occurred but not labeling them as genocide are two separate things, but still, it seems a bit hypocritical.

I still don't see how labeling something what it is as "not the right response." I guess the labeling a genocide is contingent on our relations with the perpetrators.

[Hartmann]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/10/us....ians/index.html
Wow. And we give Ahmadinejad so much shit for "denying the holocaust" and here Bush is doing something similar...

And before some people get all riled up, I know that saying that the holocaust never happened and recognizing the fact that mass killings occurred but not labeling them as genocide are two separate things, but still, it seems a bit hypocritical.

I still don't see how labeling something what it is as "not the right response." I guess the labeling a genocide is contingent on our relations with the perpetrators.

I don't agree with not calling it genocide though I think there is some real history reading needing to be done (we didn't call Sudan that either).

The reason he is against it being called that has nothing to do with "denying the holocaust" type reasons, instead it is political. The unrest in Turkey is making this necessary.