Bush blamed for Holocaust
I’m attempting to track down the roots of this Armenian Genocide legislation because last night, Crotchety Old Bastard and I had an email exchange over it and we arrived at the same conclusion;Â this is nothing more than an attempt by the Democrats to defund the war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yesterday, Ralph Peters arrived at that same conclusion in the New York Sun;
That’s what the Democrats are aiming at. This resolution isn’t about justice for the Armenians. Not this time. It’s a stunningly devious attempt to impede our war effort in Iraq and force premature troop withdrawals.
The Dems calculate that, without those flights and convoys, we won’t be able to keep our troops adequately supplied. Key intelligence and strike missions would disappear.
The Pentagon might be able to improvise other options. But the loss of the base and those routes would definitely hurt our troops. Severely. And we’d be more reliant than ever on a single, vulnerable lifeline running from Kuwait.
It’s a brilliant ploy – the Dems get to stab our troops in the back, but lay the blame off on the Turks. They pretend they’re responding to their Armenian-American constituents – while actually moving to placate MoveOn.org.
The Guardian explains the importance of Turkey to our logistical support of our own troops in the Middle East;
Turkey, which is a major cargo hub for US and allied military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, has recalled its ambassador to Washington for consultations and warned that there might be a cut in the logistical support to the US over the issue.
About 70% of US air cargo headed for Iraq goes through Turkey as does about a third of the fuel used by the US military there. US bases also get water and other supplies carried in overland by Turkish truckers who cross into Iraq’s northern Kurdish region.
Despite the general’s strong words and the recalling of its ambassador, it is not clear just how far the Turkish side can go in expressing its dismay to Washington.
Turkey suspended its military ties with France last year after the French parliament’s lower house adopted a bill that would have made it a crime to deny that the Armenian killings constituted a genocide.
To set the tone for the vote, Pelosi actually used a normally nonpartisan activity in the House to push the voting her way, according to USAToday;
Yet with the House’s first order of business Wednesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi made clear that Turkey’s position was a hard sell. She introduced the Supreme Patriarch of all Armenians, Karekin II, to deliver the morning prayer — a daily ritual intended to be apolitical.
“With the solemn burden of history, we remember the victims of the genocide of the Armenians,” Karekin said in the House. “Give peace and justice on their descendants.”Â
Sneaky and underhanded. Even California Democrat and Holocaust survivor Tom Lantos opposes pelosi’s latest dirt-dishing to the troops (USAToday);
The Foreign Affairs Committee’s Chairman, Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., warned of the potential fallout if the proposal passed. Lantos, a Hungarian-born survivor of the Holocaust, supported a similar resolution two years ago.
“We have to weigh the desire to express our solidarity with the Armenian people … against the risk that it could cause young men and women in the uniform of the United States armed services to pay an even heavier price than they are currently paying,” Lantos said.Â
When Bill Clinton asked Dennis Hastart to cancel a similar bill in 2000, Hastert conceded that Clinton had primacy in foreign policy dealings for the United States by virtue of his office and deferred to Clinton’s judgement, according to CNN:
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, said the resolution had been pulled after President Bill Clinton said he was “deeply concerned” about the language in the document. Clinton and Hastert talked by telephone on Wednesday night about the legislation.
Hastert said Clinton had warned of “possible far-reaching negative consequences for the United States” if the House voted on the legislation.
Pelosi and Steny Hoyer even visited the Turkish Ambassador before he was recalled to discuss the issue and came away the pompous idiots they’ve always been;
Pelosi and the second-ranking Democrat in the House, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, met Wednesday with Turkish Ambassador Nabi Sensoy but emerged from the meeting unswayed. Hoyer told reporters he expects a floor vote on the measure before the House adjourns for the year.
Hoyer said he hoped that Turkey would realize it is not a condemnation of its current government but rather of “another government, at another time.”
Norman Markowitz takes the whole discussion one step further in Political Affairs Magazine – he blames Bush for the Holocaust of the 1930s and 40s;
In 1931, Adolph Hitler, two years before the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship said “we intend to introduce a great resettlement policy….remember the extermination of the Armenians.” In 1939, in advocating a policy of mass killing in Poland to take the “Living Space” for Germans, he said privately to his officers, “who, after all speaks today, of the annihilation of the Armenians.
Who does? Civilized people throughout the world for whom human rights aren’t an empty slogan. But not the Bush administration, its State Department, and its policy planners who have gone from one disaster after another in the Middle East and everywhere else.
Hopefully, the U.S. Congress will remember.
Remember? Historians will remember that the Democrat “leadership” (using the term loosely)Â are a traitorous bunch of double-dealing, back-stabbing punk-ass sissies who can’t summon the fortitude to stand up to a few squeakywheels on the internet. That’ll be their legacy.
This isn’t my last word on this – I’ve got some interviews scheduled.Â
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Beautiful post, and right on about the intentions of the Dems!
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