President Bush Caves into Turkish Pressure over Armenia

Pardon me for not caring...what are my legislators doing voting on whether something Turkey has done is genocide or not?

How about working some legislation that actually represents our interests?

 

Yes, indeed it was genocide. It was the first genocide of the 20th Century. The Turks killed 1 1/2 million Armenians.

http://www.theforgotten.org/intro.html

 

Standing up for basic human rights has not been a strong suit of President Bush.

 

This is not about today this was during WW1. Why are they doing this now? I think there time could be better spent.

 

The Clinton administration, in 2000, also opposed a resolution condemning the Turks for the mass killings. The European Union, as of 2006, had said that accepting responsibility for the Armenian genocide is not a condition for Turkey's entry into the EU.

 

Bush is the last in a long line of cowards on this issue.

We'll throw a fit over Iran denying the Holocaust, but we won't do a thing when Turkey systematically denies the Armenian genocide. It's pure hypocrisy.

I don't even know how many of my ancestors and family members were killed in the Armenian genocide, but my great-grandfather had to stow away on a ship to America just to escape the carnage. He was only a teenager. To my knowledge, he never communicated with his family again.

 

Because some things are just the right thing to do. For the same reason that Jews still hunt for Nazis that participated in the death camps during World War II.

 

Standing up for basic human rights was not exactly a strong suit of President Clinton.

 

Did it just become the right thing to do ? What about all the years before was it not the correct thing to do then? What good does it do?

 

It has been the right thing to do since the genocide happened.

What good does it do to go after Nazis who have already basically lived their full lives? Justice served is justice served and standing against atrocities is standing against atrocities, even if it should have been done earlier.

Besides, I can't see why any House or Senate member would oppose this. It shouldn't take more than five minutes to approve it in either house of Congress.

 

This isn't a Republican or Democrat issue. It's a moral one. Leaders from both parties have "dropped the ball" over the years.

Bush opposes the resolution. That's wrong. Clinton did the same. That was wrong.

But, as is often said...better late than never.

 

If Turkey wants to be in the EU, it should acknowledge the evils of its past, just like other ex-'Bad Boy' countries like Germany have had to do. And while we're at it, it's about time Japan said sorry too.

 

What hasn't been said on this issue is the impending war Turkey is chomping at the bit to engage in. Turkey has been at ware off and on for years with the folks in Northern Iraq. Turkey has shown much restraint in recent years at the request of the President. Wether turkey is right or wron in this we do not need turkey creating more issues in Northern Iraq. This resolution is not helpful at the moment. It's all about timing.

 

President Bush and his policies are an American concern.

 

Those issues are taken care of with treaties and the UN (ha). American internal policies and politics are the decision of the American people. No doubt there are plenty of issues for you to concern yourself with the British government, such as Prince Charles' royal ring size.