 Bush lobbies AGAINST calling the Turkey mass murder of Armenians as genocide., Somebody contact Mahmoud Ahmadinejad STAT! |
| Bush lobbies AGAINST calling the Turkey mass murder of Armenians as genocide., Somebody contact Mahmoud Ahmadinejad STAT! |
 Oct 10 2007, 11:23 AM
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/10/us....ians/index.html
QUOTE 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. --------------------  |
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Oct 10 2007, 12:06 PM
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furthermore...this shit is a hundred years ago.
we have bigger fish to fry in 2007 than making armenians feel better about what happened....to their great-(great?) grandparents. |
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Oct 10 2007, 12:22 PM
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QUOTE (cupcake @ Oct 10 2007, 01:06 PM)  furthermore...this shit is a hundred years ago. we have bigger fish to fry in 2007 than making armenians feel better about what happened....to their great-(great?) grandparents. "Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations in readiness — for the present only in the East — with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" -Adolf Hitler And for the record, this isn't just a Bush thing. Clinton argued against acknowledging the Armenian Genocide as well. This post has been edited by pebkac: Oct 10 2007, 12:24 PM -------------------- QUOTE (Spectatrix @ Oct 13 2006, 09:51 PM) Holy shit, pebkac, you're awesome! "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - Oscar Wilde |
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blaarg Bush lobbies AGAINST calling the Turkey mass murder of Armenians as genocide. Oct 10 2007, 11:23 AM
Hartmann QUOTE (blaarg @ Oct 10 2007, 12:23 PM) ht... Oct 10 2007, 11:37 AM cupcake the last thing we need is to alienate ourselves fr... Oct 10 2007, 12:04 PM cupcake CNN confirms that Turkey has recalled its ambassad... Oct 11 2007, 11:40 AM jonathan83 and shit hits the fan Oct 11 2007, 12:06 PM Hartmann All because someone wanted to make it "offici... Oct 11 2007, 12:23 PM jonathan83 i wonder if the US has officially made us responsi... Oct 11 2007, 12:53 PM
pebkac QUOTE (jonathan83 @ Oct 11 2007, 01:53 PM... Oct 11 2007, 01:05 PM
impala454 QUOTE (jonathan83 @ Oct 11 2007, 01:53 PM... Oct 11 2007, 02:19 PM jonathan83 QUOTE (impala454 @ Oct 11 2007, 03:19 PM)... Oct 11 2007, 02:25 PM pebkac This isn't really a very simple issue.
Our cl... Oct 11 2007, 01:03 PM TetraGrammaton Cleric just make it a requirement for people to watch ara... Oct 11 2007, 01:50 PM impala454 no I don't think "we've" said th... Oct 11 2007, 02:36 PM |
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