Do you think the row with Turkey regarding the Genocide question is more intended to make the Iraq conflict?

Question

more difficult to prosecute?

If this question moves forward and relations with Turkey are further strained and then we are prevented from using their lands and airspace for moving our supplies wont that make the war harder to fight.

Answer 1

There you go. If the members of Congress that are against the war can turn Turkey against the U.S. and they deny the use of our base there, it stops the supply line to our troops. If we then must withdraw troops they can blame it on Turkey and do not have to take the political risk of not funding the troops.

Answer 2

No, I think our deal with the Genocide question is to make sure that the deaths of the 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire (modern day Turkey) in the early 1900s (around 1917-1923 or so) are avenged and not forgotten, much like we did for the Holocaust victims. Since Turkey wants to basically write the Armenian genocide out of its history books, all we are trying to do is ensure that victims are remembered and the same thing does not happen to them again. What remains to be seen is how our military ties with Turkey are affected by our actions...

Answer 3

Could we get a President that ensures the Ally Turkey and NATO member nation Turkey allows the United States use of its airspace?

We have a military presence there for a long time so far in our history do we not?

They do not care about an easy war, only a profitable one.

They are, the neoconservative cancer that is making my Republican party diseased and dieing.

We true conservatives need to reclaim our party.

I'm only liberal on gay rights and abortion but most mainstream Conservatives share my view, we do not share the view of fundamentalist religious folks who have voted in primaries for this neoconservative cancer,

and further more, further more,

we can't elect Hillary in 2008.

Therefor I proudly will support Rudy Giuliani

Answer 4

Or get out of.
I think the proponents of the resolution do not all have the same motives. Some, of course, are just soft-headed fools. Some are anti-militarists, and some will sell their grandmothers into prostitution for political advantage. I hate to think they will purposefully damage our military position in order to further injure the administration, which hardly needs damaging, but it's hard not to suppose that's a prime motivator. It seems the Democrats need every quarter century or so to try to destroy our military. (Don't think I'm being partisan here: the Republicans see the Marines as troops under the command of Big Business, and the rest as a source for profits, and don't look at actual needs any more than the Democrats do.)

Answer 5

There are American soldiers catching bullets in Iraq.
At stake is our oil supply and the capacity of Terrorist to strike at America.

There has been exactly one Muslim country consistently on our side in this struggle.

So let's resurrect a 92 year old atrocity, committed by a government that's been gone for 85 years, and give Turkey a great big public smack in the face as our special American thank you.

Jeez. The Dems should stop beating around the Bush and just vote to fund Al-Qaeda.

Answer 6

No. It is intended to make it harder for Turkey to make war against the Kurds in Iraq. Such a war would seriously complicate the US's position in the region.

Answer 7

One thing is for sure. We are rapidly losing an Allie. I think you're right about the genocide question too. More difficult to prosecute. Isn't that what the Bushies do the best?

Answer 8

it's probably just a ruse to cover a political maneuver, like Turkish punitive attack on Kurds in Northern Iraq , but we'll see. Iknow of peole who have asked for this resolution for 60 plus years they have been dead 10years but wanted it from us since 1920 or so...why now we'll see

Answer 9

That's an interesting thought. Just too bad for me that i didn't put that together for myself before.