Posted on 10/11/2007 3:46:18 PM PDT by SJackson
SHINGTON (CNN) -- Turkey recalled its ambassador to the United States in response to a House resolution that uses the word "genocide" in reference to what it calls the Turkish massacre of Armenians during World War I, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs passed the measure 27-21 Wednesday, even though President Bush and key administration figures lobbied hard against it. The full House is expected to vote on it, possibly Friday.
A top Turkish official warned Thursday that consequences "won't be pleasant" if the full House approves the resolution.
"Yesterday some in Congress wanted to play hardball," said Egemen Bagis, foreign policy adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "I can assure you Turkey knows how to play hardball."
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Pelosi-Murtha plan in action. Starve the military by limiting supply routes.
I don’t know how you get to the point where you hate your country so much. I do know, this is the face of pure evil.
Why, exactly, is this being done??
It’s another back door way for the left to muck with the war by alienating a country we don’t want to alienate right now.
This is a flank attack on the US mititary.
The intent is to create problems for a military that is winning.
The real war in America is with the leftists. They are the true American enemies. If you are a Democrat, you are the enemy.
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Thank you Nancy Pelosi.
It was clearly genocide.
Given the fact that the resolution addresses several dozen actions of the American government, dating back to the time of the slaughter, and including reduction of aid to Turkey, I don't think there's a reason the US needs to be officially addressing it again today.
This was sabotage. No other rational explanation
It figures.......
Mixed feelings. If it was genocide by fair historical standards, then we shouldn’t back away from labeling it as such. But why this controversy NOW? That’s what bothers me.
How about ZERO aid to Turkey? That might work better.
I heard on a conservative talk show this morning that 90% of the supplies going to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan go through Turkey. This is just another lame attempt by the liberal left to cut off the military’s supply chain. I really don’t think the libs care the slightest bit about the Armenian massacre during WWI. Why else did they wait until NOW to bring it up?
Forget about Turkey as a supply route. We have a Navy and an Air Force that can get supplies in other ways.
Looks like Turkey is taking sides, just like they did in those old Crusades.
Bring it on, you Ottomans.
Yes, what they did to the Armenians during WWI was wrong, but that was 90 years ago and those who did that are dead and gone. The current government does not massacre Armenians and in fact is one of our few ME allies. Just why Congress is bring this up NOW is beyond me. Are they going to breeze through history and label every event like this? I think we can tell right from wrong (and left), and we don’t need Congress to do it for us. The current Turkish government is not that of the 1910s and we shouldn’t be turning our allies against us. But since the Dems can’t get the troops to withdraw, they have no choice...
Pelosi hasn’t screwed up foreign policy since her visit to Syria. It’s time for another amateurish attempt to circumvent the Bush administration.
The Democrats forwarded this notion with the intent to openly sabotage our war efforts. They couldn't give a d@mn about genocide, hell, they openly support infanticide and compel the public to subsidize it.
Open treason. This was just one way they could harm our troops and their efforts, so they did it.
The (Islamic) Turks can’t handle the truth.
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