Posted on 04/24/2017 1:33:32 PM PDT by george76
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) publicly apologized for not properly acknowledging the Armenian Genocide during her tenure under the administration of U.S. resident Barack Obama.
Almost every Armenian-American family was touched in some way by the genocide. Ongoing Turkish denial makes the genocide an open wound I am very sorry that, during our time in office, we in the Obama administration did not recognize the Armenian Genocide, Power said in a series of tweets.
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Power has faced much criticism for her silence on Obamas failure to recognize the Armenian Genocide, and had refused to publicly comment on the issue until now.
Former President Barack Obama had made a campaign promise to use the term genocide during his administration, but failed to do so in his eight years in office.
(Excerpt) Read more at armenianweekly.com ...
I’m glad she’s outta there.
Not recognizing it was bad enough, but did you have to blame the whole thing on an inflammatory Cher video?
I seldom go to a movie, but in this case I may make an exception just to be counted.
Will wait to see how the reviews are. (If it is trying to push a historical event into a love story).
Good point. Hollywood could really screw it up.
Reviews are not good so far.
Darn.
Actually read the review on the Christian Spotlight site, and they say the movie is good.
I guess that would make sense to me. We rely on the reviews in World Magazine.
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