1. I believe it happend
2. I am sorry it happend, but had nothing to do with it
3. It happend a long time ago and the USA had nothing to do with it.
4. I am not willing to spend my tax dollars twords any aspect of it
So why should the USA have anything to do with it. It is not our issue or problem? I would really like to know why.
2007-10-23 15:19:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Loony loon Pelosi wants to pretend she's a general and is subverting our government by pissing off Turkey, who is our allie in the Iraq war. She is a traitor and makes me glad I am a Republican.
fuckfrance.com - Pelosi's Armenian Gambit (2803352) - Read article:
23. ... the establishment of the Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial in Washington. ... genocide committed 90 years ago by an empire that no longer exists is Pelosi's ...
24. www.fuckfrance.com/topic/2803352/1/USA/Pelosi-s-Armenian-Gambit.htm
2007-10-23 15:27:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
For most Americans it was a non issue until San Fran Nancy chose the moment to bring it up once again just at the precise moment the Turks are getting ready to pinch the heads off of the PKK.
Seems that every politician including several Presidential hopefuls have been promising the people in California with Armenian heritage that they would get a resolution through on the next term for votes now the Armenian descendants did their part and are tired of waiting on every last one of these blow hards to hold up their end of the deal.
2007-10-23 15:36:12 · answer #2 · answered by CFB 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There are hundreds of thousands of people living in the United States who are of Armenian descent or are Armenian immigrants themselves.
I think people who don't live in the USA don't realize that our country is made up of people from all over the world.
It's not the USA's business. But there are many people who have reason to believe in it due to their own history and sympathy. But keep in mind, there are also Americans of Turkish descent as well!
It's mostly politics, a statement which does little if any good, but mostly harm.
2007-10-23 15:43:54 · answer #3 · answered by Frank 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The reason for the Senate to make a big issue of this makes no sense.
In doing so they have angered the Turkish Government, so that they have pulled their Ambassador.
They have filed a protest and threatened to withhold support over this action.
But the Senate still kept it up.......But Why?
Is it a way for the Dem's and their far left wing money handlers, to cause a backhanded loss of support for the war by Turkey?
Losses of the airbase and restrict the movement of about 70% of war supplies. Could it be?
2007-10-23 15:45:54 · answer #4 · answered by tom 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is insane how much misinformation there is regarding this resolution.
It was a Bush campaign promise.
The resolution was put forth by a Republican and a Democrat.
We are one of the few countries that has not recognized it officially as a "genocide".
It is NOT a liberal issue!!
Edit: if you gave this a thumbs down, your a complete idiot, or maybe you just have an aversion for the truth?
2007-10-23 15:31:26 · answer #5 · answered by Left Hand Black 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Good question.
More to the point is why it is an issue at all - it took place almost 1 hundred years ago and I seriously doubt there is a single person living in Turkey today who was involved in this genocide.
It seems to me that the important issue would be to look to the present and future and assure that something similar to this is not repeated. This we can do - we can't, however, change history.
2007-10-23 15:28:23 · answer #6 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
This is a political ploy (propoganda) by opponents (gleefully supported by the left) to drive a wedge between the US and our closest ally in the Middle East.
Americans will DIE so that Pelosi can bad mouth the President.
2007-10-23 15:32:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree with Chi Guy. Genocide is something that should never be allowed to be forgotten. It matters not the ethnicity of the victims - but that they were fellow human beings.
However, I do think that your US Congress could spend its time stopping the genocide now happening in Iraq and triggered by Mr. Bush's idiotic invasion of said nation.
2007-10-23 15:33:31 · answer #8 · answered by gortamor 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The US also provided a home for Armenian refugees, where they were not persecuted for their beliefs.
Why is it NOW an issue is my question. All I can come up with is that Pelosi is more interested in pandering to her constituency than she is our troops in harm's way.
2007-10-23 15:27:30 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
For the same reason there is a Holocaust Museum in America. Its interesting how Amade-nut-job is decried for denying the Holocaust while Bush is praised for denying the Armenian Holocaust.
2007-10-23 15:25:10 · answer #10 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋