Post Chronicle
Oct 14 2007

Partisan Nancy Pelosi Strikes Again: The Turk/Armenian "Genocide"

by James L. Clark

One wonders if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is so partisan that she
will stop at nothing to damage this administration, especially with
respect to the current war on terror directly, with particular
emphasis on the increased danger to troops indirectly. Or…one wonders
if she is just plain dumb as a gourd and in her naivete manages to
gum up the works.

The latest blunder, committed in tandem with partner-in-crime
Congressman Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
is the insistence that the Congress vote out a non-binding resolution
stating that the Turks committed genocide against the Armenians some
100 or so years ago.

There was such a massacre during 1915-23, actually in the beginning
by the rulers of the Ottoman Empire (actually Turks) against
Armenians, the former completely Muslim and the latter made up of
Christians. It was despicable and was renounced at the time by the
United States. The action included outright murder and displacement,
sort of the equivalent of the Bataan Death March of 1942 but on a
much larger scale. About a million and a half Armenians died.
President Andrew Jackson’s displacement of the Cherokee Indians from
North Carolina and Tennessee to Oklahoma in the 1830s was such a
march, except that deaths occurred from hardships, not murder.

The United States had nothing to do with the Armenian genocide and
later joined the Allies in World War I in defeating Germany and its
allies, among whom was Turkey. Today, Turkey is a member of NATO and
this country’s only actual ally among Muslim nations, allowing
transit of U.S. supplies into Iraq through Turkey, a vital
requirement for winning that war. Before Saddam’s fall, Turkey
allowed the U.S. to use airbases on its soil to enforce the no-fly
zone. The last thing needed now is for Pelosi and her crowd to – for
no reason at all – insult the current Turks, who actually had nothing
substantial to do with that genocide, either. This is the same sort
of weird drumbeat used by panderers to the Al Sharpton crowd in
blaming current whites for slavery, something too off the wall to
even invite discussion.

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress