Politics & Government - 16 October 2007

2007-10-16 14:25:54 · 21 answers · asked by notyoursecret 1 in Politics

And how could he not be the cut & run President when even the Dems majority in Congress couldn't get a bill signed to bring US troops home. But Bush is now slowly & very quietly starting to pull them out of Iraq. Hoping of course that nobody will notice.

So to all those "patriotic" Theocons out there. How do feel now that the President you voted for twice, is now stabbing you in back?

2007-10-16 14:22:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Nobody has the right to judge Turkey like this," Erdogan said. "Those who dare confront an important country like Turkey will pay the price."

Bagis said Turkey should impose sanctions against Armenia because it supported the resolution.

"Turkey must impose sanctions against Armenia," Bagis said. "Turkey has already done a list of what and when it will do, and the prime minister has already given necessary orders."

The border between Turkey and Armenia is closed. But Turkey could cancel flights between Istanbul and Yerevan, as well as stopover flights to Armenia, and also prevent around 4,000 trucks from hauling goods to Armenia through neighboring Georgia.

http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/16-10-2007/98906-armenia_punishment-0

It is not OK to deny themurder of the Jews and yet it is OK to deny the murder of Christains!

Henry Morgenthau
American Ambassador to Constantinople
1913-1916



CHAPTER XXIV

THE MURDER OF A NATION

The destruction of the Armenian race in 1915 involved certain difficulties that had not impeded the operations of the Turks in the massacres of 1895 and other years. In these earlier periods the Armenian men had possessed little power or means of resistance. In those days Armenians had not been permitted to have military training, to serve in the Turkish army, or to possess arms. As I have already said, these discriminations were withdrawn when the revolutionists obtained the upper hand in 1908. Not only were the Christians now permitted to bear arms, but the authorities, in the full flush of their enthusiasm for freedom and equality, encouraged them to do so. In the early part of 1915, therefore, every Turkish city contained thousands of Armenians who had been trained as soldiers and who were supplied with rifles, pistols, and other weapons of defense. The operations at Van once more disclosed that these men could use their weapons to good advantage. It was thus apparent that an Armenian massacre this time would generally assume more the character of warfare than those wholesale butcheries of defenseless men and women which the Turks had always found so congenial. If this plan of murdering a race were to succeed, two preliminary steps would therefore have to be taken: it would be necessary to render all Armenian soldiers powerless and to deprive of their arms the Armenians in every city and town. Before Armenia could be slaughtered, Armenia must be made defenseless.

In the early part of 1915, the Armenian soldiers in the Turkish army were reduced to a new status. Up to that time most of them had been combatants, but now they were all stripped of their arms and transformed into workmen. Instead of serving their country as artillerymen and cavalrymen, these former soldiers now discovered that they had been transformed into road labourers and pack animals. Army supplies of all kinds were loaded on their backs, and, stumbling under the burdens and driven by the whips and bayonets of the Turks, they were forced to drag their weary bodies into the mountains of the Caucasus. Sometimes they would have to plough their way, burdened in this fashion, almost waist high through snow. They had to spend practically all their time in the open, sleeping on the bare ground---whenever the ceaseless prodding of their taskmasters gave them an occasional opportunity to sleep. They were given only scraps of food; if they fell sick they were left where they had dropped, their Turkish oppressors perhaps stopping long enough to rob them of all their possessions---even of their clothes. If any stragglers succeeded in reaching their destinations, they were not infrequently massacred. In many instances Armenian soldiers were disposed of in even more summary fashion, for it now became almost the general practice to shoot them in cold blood. In almost all cases the procedure was the same. Here and there squads of 50 or 100 men would be taken, bound together in groups of four, and then marched out to a secluded spot a short distance from the village. Suddenly the sound of rifle shots would fill the air, and the Turkish soldiers who had acted as the escort would sullenly return to camp. Those sent to bury the bodies would find them almost invariably stark naked, for, as usual, the Turks had stolen all their clothes. In cases that came to my attention, the murderers had added a refinement to their victims' sufferings by compelling them to dig their graves before being shot.

Let me relate a single episode which is contained in one of the reports of our consuls and which now forms part of the records of the American State Department. Early in July, 2,000 Armenian "amélés"---such is the Turkish word for soldiers who have been reduced to workmen---were sent from Harpoot to build roads. The Armenians in that town understood what this meant and pleaded with the Governor for mercy. But this official insisted that the men were not to be harmed, and he even called upon the German missionary, Mr. Ehemann, to quiet the panic, giving that gentleman his word of honour that the ex-soldiers would be protected. Mr. Ehemann believed the Governor and assuaged the popular fear. Yet practically every man of these 2,000 was massacred, and his body thrown into a cave. A few escaped, and it was from these that news of the massacre reached the world. A few days afterward another 2,000 soldiers were sent to Diarbekir. The only purpose of sending these men out in the open country was that they might be massacred. In order that they might have no strength to resist or to escape by flight, these poor creatures were systematically starved. Government agents went ahead on the road, notifying the Kurds that the caravan was approaching and ordering them to do their congenial duty. Not only did the Kurdish tribesmen pour down from the mountains upon this starved and weakened regiment, but the Kurdish women came with butcher's knives in order that they might gain that merit in Allah's eyes that comes from killing a Christian. These massacres were not isolated happenings; I could detail many more episodes just as horrible as the one related above; throughout the Turkish Empire a systematic attempt was made to kill all able-bodied men, not only for the purpose of removing all males who might propagate a new generation of Armenians, but for the purpose of rendering the weaker part of the population an easy prey.

2007-10-16 14:22:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-10-16 14:22:02 · 8 answers · asked by Pat 1 in Law & Ethics

i was doing a research project and i saw that costa rica is a democratic republic. Is that the same as the US? what is the diff between democratic republic and just plain democracy???

2007-10-16 14:21:23 · 6 answers · asked by katiegirl 2 in Government

Earlier today, as I was riding a bicycle back from the Army recruiters office, a woman ran a stop sign and hit me while I was crossing on my bike in the crosswalk. The woman has two children, and does not have insurance. If I would have called the police, she would have lost her children and gone to jail. My back hurt pretty bad immediately after the incident, but I could still walk and move around. As the day has gone by, the pain has got increasingly worse, to the point that I am seriously contemplating going to the E.R. now. (I am the kind of person that HATES doctors and hospitals, so yeah, it is THAT bad). What should I tell the doctor if I do end up going? Will I be in trouble for leaving the scene of the accident? Would there be any way that the woman could be liable for the bill which I definitely can not afford? I did write down the license plate number of the car, so the woman can be tracked down if need be... Did I do the right thing, or did I screw myself?

2007-10-16 14:21:02 · 4 answers · asked by Lazerus JPA 3 in Law & Ethics

What determines what ship a Navy captain will command. I mean there is so many different ships from mine sweepers to aircraft carriers. I was just wondering what is the process.

2007-10-16 14:20:56 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Are mayors allowed to make their own laws and do their own planning towards the city. For example can they tear down or build new parks. Can they also buy property to make the city larger? What does a mayor do exactly? What cant they do? Can they do something that affects other cities near them? Please answer these questions.

2007-10-16 14:20:21 · 1 answers · asked by Torry M 1 in Law & Ethics

what if the government is all conservatives and they contribute my extra tax money to wars...? thats not right

2007-10-16 14:17:28 · 21 answers · asked by Advice Guru 2 in Politics

please give an honest, SERIOUS answer!

thank you!

2007-10-16 14:15:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Or is it possible it's even worse than what happened to the US military after Vietnam.

2007-10-16 14:15:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

My office manager gave me an affidavit of domestic partnership form for my girlfriend and i to sign and have notarized, the notary public said she would notarize it but that the form is intented for only gay couples. It is for health insurance through my work for my live in girlfriend and mother of my child. Is the notary lady full of crap? Or did my office manager unknowingly put me in danger of commiting fraud?

2007-10-16 14:13:53 · 3 answers · asked by troybuddy 3 in Law & Ethics

...whose standard of living should fall first? Should it be the ultra-rich who can afford a falling standard of living and still be living large? Or should it be the poor and middle class whose standard of living can fall a long way as a consequence of marginal amounts of higher taxes or lower income?

2007-10-16 14:11:15 · 16 answers · asked by ideogenetic 7 in Politics

Alright. I bet it has been puzzling millions of people out there on this wide debate. I have looked and it seems like Limewire is only legal to download uncopyrighted material. (someone please confirm). But, i would like to know, out of the MILLIONS OF MILLIONS of people that have a downloading program (limewire, bearshare, etc), why are only a hand full getting caught and fined? i can't remember the exact number, but it was somewhere around 200milion people have used some software to download something...illegally. But yet only a small portion has got caught and punished. If thr government really wanted to, couldn't they track down [most] 'downloaders' and fine them? (i can see the results in millions of complaints, but still). or is there something i'm missing? Is that hand full of people getting caught doing something different from the rest of the world? insights? opinions? facts?

and then there's bit torrent, etc. what about those? are those legal up to some degree like limewire?

2007-10-16 14:10:38 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I live in New York and it's a butterfly knife. I just want to carry it in my purse, I don't plan on fighting or stabbing people at all. Is that illegal at all? This site makes it seem like it's not, but I'm not sure.: http://pweb.netcom.com/~brlevine/ny.txt

2007-10-16 14:10:15 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-10-16 14:08:15 · 12 answers · asked by Dude #2369™ 4 in Politics

2007-10-16 14:07:56 · 8 answers · asked by sheena jones 1 in Law & Ethics

My husband has weekend visitation with his 2 sons age 15 & 10. His oldest son is 19 now. about a year ago, we learned from the oldest that his mom had threw a birthday party for him in which she provided alcohol & pot. The youngest boys were there, pics were taken. We enlarged the pic, showing a young boy (not ours) smoking pot with them. We reported this to childrens service. They investigated (so they said) then told us it is not illegal for a parent to give their child alcohol. They just sort of blew off the pic. Over past year we heard rumors the boys are left alone alot while she goes to bars & she drinks daily. We had the boys this weekend. The 15 yr old called her to talk , I didnt know he was on phone, accidentally picked up heard her screaming cussing him. She was drunk. He cried says dont want to live there, she does this alot & when she is in bar He walks little brother around town. She has parties til 4 am school nite brings strangers home. Gets angry throws forks

2007-10-16 14:05:22 · 5 answers · asked by Sad Mom 3 in Law & Ethics

2007-10-16 14:05:14 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I just moved from georgia from Maryland. Can they pick up the information. When I went to the DMV to get a 3 year MVR nothing showed up in Georgia.

2007-10-16 14:04:53 · 1 answers · asked by myron21211 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

Note: I would re-word it, but it would be the same basic joke.

2007-10-16 14:04:39 · 6 answers · asked by dangoinvestor 3 in Law & Ethics

Specifically for speech therapists and psychologists

2007-10-16 14:04:31 · 1 answers · asked by Tyler W 1 in Law & Ethics

quite a few times ppl have asked if you would 'chip' ur children and pets. but would u get 'chipped' why or why not? and what is ur outlook on the chip? have u changed ur mind over a period of time? did u say yes b4 and no now, or no then and now yes? what about the religious outlook? would it change ur mind if u were guaranteed that it was the 'mark of the beast', that is taught in churches?

2007-10-16 14:03:51 · 6 answers · asked by keanweaner 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Lying low, in a wiiiiide stance?

2007-10-16 13:58:54 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

This question arose when discussing teh USA Patriot Act, which was intended to catch terrorists

2007-10-16 13:56:23 · 11 answers · asked by tanka_89 4 in Law & Ethics

Chester "The Molester" Stiles has been caught. How long will he last?

2007-10-16 13:56:05 · 2 answers · asked by Josh S 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-10-16 13:54:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

a. create a boundary with the county

b. set out the city's basic laws

c. provides a forum for public debate

d. provides for an election of city officers

2007-10-16 13:54:45 · 2 answers · asked by matt r 1 in Government

ok i been on assitance ontario works and i was wondering would they help u for first and last month if ur moving and i got it before but i need to find a place its been a year would they help me with that thank u i hope u can answer my question

2007-10-16 13:53:34 · 1 answers · asked by sarah k 1 in Government

Tonight's interview with Matt Lauer reminded me a lot of the Ollie North trial. I don't recall... Come on, give us a break Senator!!!

2007-10-16 13:52:15 · 4 answers · asked by "Johns" 7 in Law & Ethics