Why? Aren't they guilty of the same crap that Saddam was doing? Why haven't we invaded and brought freedom to the Turks?Turkey is a vital ally on the war on terror
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Why? Aren't they guilty of the same crap that Saddam was doing? Why haven't we invaded and brought freedom to the Turks?Turkey is a vital ally on the war on terror
I thought that conspiracy theory threads were prohibited...
Recognition of the truth? That and the fact that survivors and their descendants have vowed to continue their fight.Somebody tell me what the benefit is for re labeling something that happened 90 years ago.
How is this different?
I don't think it is a matter of conspiracy; instead, it is an issue of terrible leadership by Nancy at a time when our country is at war. A war in which Turkey is an important ally to the United States. Nancy's timing is terrible, and placating MoveOn to make the war on terror even more difficult for our country is irresponsible and illogical.
If the Armenians will get some compensation because of the label,fine.If it's just some historical housecleaning,as if changing the name will somehow change what anybody with internet access already knows,forget it.
So there are a couple of differences between Iran and Turkey.
You sure about that?I don't think Turkey wants to destroy Armenia.
Yes, let's just forget the truth because it's inconvenient. Why couldn't we have just forgotten about Saddam's ethnic cleansing? Would have saved us about half a trillion bucks, eh?If the Armenians will get some compensation because of the label,fine.If it's just some historical housecleaning,as if changing the name will somehow change what anybody with internet access already knows,forget it.
Why couldn't we have just forgotten about Saddam's ethnic cleansing
Yet the men in power still deny the killings. It's just as wrong especially since that denial continues to be a source of death and destruction for many.Because Saddam was still in power. If the men who ordered the extermination of the Armenians were still alive your argument might make some sense.
denial continues to be a source of death and destruction for many
Let's stop all of this foolishness about how Iran is no different from Turkey. We have a military base in Turkey. We supply our troops in Iraq from that base. We conduct military opertations against terrorists from that base. Turkey is our ally in the war on terror.
Iran is a state-sponsor of terrorism. They build and supply IEDs to terrorists, who use them to blow up our troops in Iran. Iran also trains, arms, and supports Lebanese Hizballah, HAMAS, the Palestine Islamic Jihad, and Ahmad Jibril's PFLP-GC.
As long as the Turks react to the "label" by being insulted, it is what it is. Whether or not you understand the Turks' reaction is irrelevant.I fail to see how labeling history properly is "insulting" to anybody...no more than recognizing the holocaust as a genocide is insulting to Germany.
You might think that anybody with internet access already knows this, but having talked to a couple Turks about it their educational system is doing a pretty good job whitewashng it for their people.
Well the Japanese whitewash the "comfort women" rape camps and widespread use of slave labor in their textbooks about WWII, and the Russian schoolbooks probably gloss over the Katyn forest massacre or the widespread rape of women in freshly captured territory as they rolled the Germans back in WWII. So it's not as though the Turks are alone in covering up ugly parts of their past.
Mesrob Mutafyan, patriarch of the Armenian community in Turkey, has stated that his community is opposed to the resolution.
He said that they will do everything in their power to prevent passage of the resolution by the full House.