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  • Bill to Condemn Genocide in Jeopardy (Pelosi ploy failing)

    10/17/2007 6:10:47 AM PDT · by teddyballgame · 109 replies · 1,025+ views
    AP ^ | 10/17/07 | ANNE FLAHERTY
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A House vote to label the century-old deaths of Armenians as genocide was in jeopardy Tuesday after several Democrats withdrew their support and sounded alarms it could cripple U.S. relations with Turkey. The loss of support is a major setback to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, who have fiercely defended the resolution to Republicans and the Bush administration as a moral imperative in condemning the World War I-era killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks. President Bush called Pelosi on Tuesday to ask her not to call for...