Posted on 10/10/2007 4:25:53 PM PDT by postaldave
After reading the foxnews story on congress and Turkey please tell me WHY the democrats are bringing up stuff that happened in WW I other then to try to lose the war in Iraq by pissing off Turkey, one of the few islamic states that help us.
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I take it you have no problem with Holocaust denial either.
OK, I’ll bite. What has Turkey done for us?
The WH has the only adults currently in Washington D.C.
if you read the foxnews post is cited it said...
“Gates said that 70 percent of U.S. air cargo headed for Iraq goes through Turkey, as does about a third of the fuel used by the U.S. military in Iraq.
“Access to airfields and to the roads and so on in Turkey would very much be put at risk if this resolution passes and Turkey reacts as strongly as we believe they will,” Gates said. He also said that 95 percent of the newly purchased Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles are being flown through Turkey to get to Iraq.”
One of our few friends in the Islamic world and the Democrats want to throw them under the bus. Anyone else think Democrats are not the best choice to run foreign policy? Good at playing with the animals at the zoo, not good at life.
Im with you on this
It’s the plug in the anus of the Middle East. Pull out the plug and watch what happens...
it does not have anything to do with IF they did these things it is all about WHY congress is bringing this up right now.
Perhaps before you post you ought to do a bit of reading. This chapter of history belongs in the “Never Forget” category.
Oh, by the way. Most Armenians were Christian living in an Islamic state. Gee, maybe there’s a parrallel to today....
I for one, am all for it. Every year if need be.
they can’t make good on their promise to force bush to get out so they figured out a way to force us to lose by cutting out the country in that area that is actually helping us.
http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press_releases.php?prid=3
2-20-2000
Washington, DC -- In a powerfully worded letter to two of his leading Armenian American supporters, Republican presidential hopeful Texas Governor George Bush acknowledged the Armenian Genocide, called on Americans to join with him in remembering the crime committed against the Armenian people, and pledged as President to ensure that the United States properly recognizes this terrible atrocity, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
Governor Bush's letter, addressed to Michigan community activist Edgar Hagopian and New York businessman Vasken Setrakian, who attended Harvard with the Governor, also called for continued U.S. aid to Armenia, encouraged a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabagh conflict, and praised the "tremendous contribution of the Armenian community to the United States."
"We welcome Governor Bush's principled stand on the Armenian Genocide and join with him in calling upon all Americans to acknowledge both the facts and lessons of this crime against humanity," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "We would like, as well, to voice our community's gratitude to Vasken Setrakian and Edgar Hagopian, both of whom have done so much to share with Governor Bush the issues of pressing concern to our community. We appreciate their leadership and value their contribution to expanding the voice of Armenian Americans in the political process."
The Dems promised to restore our relations with our allies, but now they are trashing our relations with our closest Muslim ally.
If I had an opportunity to advise the Turkish parliament as to an appropriate response, my suggestion would be that they pass a similar resolution regarding American slavery, except that instead of condemning the US government, they should condemn the Democratic Party. Afterall, no one would disagree with a resolution condemning the US government for slavery, including the Democrats. In fact, they’d probably respond to such a resolution by passing their own resolution condemning the US government. And they love to trash the United States of America, so there is no point in that. What the Turkish parliament could do to really get under the Democrats’ skin, though, and to make their blood boil, would be to issue a resolution condemning the Democratic Party for their role in the establishment and perpetuation of the institution of slavery, and point out that while the US government has spent trillions of dollars to eliminate the harmful historic effects of slavery, the Democratic Party has still not made amends.
Turkey has been basing the US Navy and US Army, including nuclear IRBMs until the Cuban missile crisis. They were very important Cold War allies since they had been battling Russian Imperialism for a very long time. This is not the time to antagonize allies.
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