PELOSI VOWS TO PUSH AHEAD WITH GENOCIDE MEASURE
NewsMax.com, FL
genocide/2007/10/14/40796.html
Oct 15 2007
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that she’d bring to a vote
a resolution condemning the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey
nearly a century ago as genocide, despite warnings that the action
could damage U.S.-Turkey relations.
On Wednesday, a House committee OK’d a nonbinding resolution declaring
the killings as genocide. Appearing Sunday on "This Week," Pelosi
states: "I’ve said if it passed the committee that we would bring it
to the floor."
About 1.5 million Armenians were killed, starting in 1915, as the
Ottoman Empire crumbled. The current Turkish government objects to
the word "genocide." It insists that while hundreds of thousands of
Armenians died, they died as a result of war.
When asked Sunday if forcing a vote on the resolution might endangers
U.S. troops in Iraq, Pelosi said:
"Some of the things that are harmful to our troops relate to values –
Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, torture. Our troops are well-served when we
declare who we are as a country and increase the respect people have
for us as a nation."
She also pointed out that President Reagan referred to the killings
as genocide.