PEOPLE DIED AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION LIED
by The Stiletto
Blogger News Network
Oct 15 2007
More than 60 years ago, Polish-Jewish scholar Ralph Lemkin coined
the term "genocide" precisely to describe the scale and brutality of
the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Christian Armenians by the
Ottoman Turks.
The assertions Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Defense Secretary
Robert Gates made arguing against Congress passing HR 106/SR 106,
which calls on our government to recognize the historical truth of the
Armenian Genocide, are outright lies: That loss of access to Turkish
land and air supply routes will imperil coalition forces in Iraq,
and that that Turkey is an indispensable ally.
Unfortunately, these lies were enough to sway one co-sponsor of the
bill, Jane Harman (D-CA), to withdraw her support.
The truth: Turkey is irresolute as an Iraq War ally and irrelevant
as a NATO ally.
If Turkey makes good on its threats to deny the U.S. access to Incirlik
Air Base – through which 70 percent of military cargo sent to Iraq
is flown – and closes the Turkish-Iraq border to trucks that deliver
30 percent of the fuel used by the U.S. military, there is a Plan
B. "Turkey has been a tremendous hub for us, and if we didn’t have
it that would increase time lines and distances. But it would be a
short-term impact," a senior military officer involved in logistical
planning and operations tells The New York Times. Armored vehicles
and other equipment flown to Iraq over Turkish airspace can also be
rerouted, if necessary.
The day the Berlin Wall fell was the day Turkey ceased to matter as
a NATO member. Here, highlights of a "Note to the Turkish government"
Hugh Fitzgerald posted on Dhimmi Watch that are germane to the focus
of this post:
The Cold War, or at least the First Cold War, is over. It is no
longer 1950, or 1960. There is no longer a need for Turkey’s help in
confronting Russia, which, while it has reverted to unpleasantness
and despotism, is not the menace it once was. And Turkey is not quite
so important a place for listening-posts and other bases. …
Turkey has not fulfilled, as it seems to think, its duties to its
American "ally." It did not permit the use of Incirlik airbase. Three
rather than four divisions, therefore, had to take over Iraq. There
was no invasion force from the north that might have made a difference
in Anbar. …
Turkey is a member of NATO. The Turks apparently think they will remain
in NATO no matter how outrageously they behave. But why should NATO
continue to tolerate an Islamic country? What conceivable good can come
of having privy to NATO circles a government like that now in power in
Istanbul, given that the great threat to the other countries of NATO,
and to the Western alliance, comes now from the forces of Jihad? …
It may be that Bush thinks that the large-scale murders of Christian
Armenians by Muslim Turks began in 1915, when it began twenty years
before, with no "wartime conditions" to blame … [Emphasis, The
Stiletto’s.]
[T]he E.U. does not need Turkey, does not want Turkey. … NATO, and
the Americans, do not need Turkey, a recalcitrant Turkey, a difficult
Turkey, a Turkey that makes demands for the rewriting or the ignoring
of history. … [T]he Turkish army will not be ordered to collaborate
with Infidels against other Muslims – and it will not be, not by the
current government – then what good is Turkey to NATO?
Fitzgerald’s piece also details what a back-stabbing "friend" Turkey
has been to the U.S. and punctures Turkey’s denialist claims, parroted
by our government – as well as by John Fund and Turkey’s other shills
at The Wall Street Journal.
Here’s what’s really going on: Turkey is using HR 106 as a pretext
to carry out its long-planned excursion into Northern Iraq to kill as
many Kurds as possible – along with any ambitions they might have of
joining their brethren on the Turkish side of the border to form an
independent country. The real prize is the potentially huge untapped
oil reserves now under the control of the Kurdish Regional Government.
The "insult" of passing the Armenian Genocide Resolution gives Turkey
the cover it needs to further it’s geopolitical interests and to
undermine the U.S. mission in Iraq once again – just as a "neutral"
Turkey undermined the Allies in WWII by secretly supplying Hitler
with chromite. (Another historical truth that Shimon Peres and Abe
Foxman must deny along with the Armenian Genocide so that Israel can
maintain its "friendship" with Turkey.)
Conservatives who argue that the Armenian Genocide happened, but it’s
"inconvenient" to say so right now, should know better than anyone
that doing the right thing is never "convenient." It’s convenient to
steal a car, not to save up money to buy one; to rape a woman a man
is sexually attracted to, not to woo and marry her; and to abort a
baby, not to feed, clothe and raise him. But in each of these cases
– as with passing the Armenian Genocide Resolution – the convenient
thing is not the right thing.
On "Fox News Sunday," Steny Hoyer (D-MD) told Brit Hume that he
supported the U.S. government’s official recognition of the Armenian
Genocide for 25 years – and that there never seemed to be "a right
time" as far as the Turks were concerned:
Hume: … Just on the strength of the committee action, the Turks
recalled their ambassador, which is a – you know, it’s more than
a mild form of protest about this. If it’s that sensitive at this
moment, why do it now?
Hoyer: OK, Brit. That’s a good question. I’ve been in the Congress 26
years. I’ve been for this resolution for 25 years. I’ve talked to the
Turkish ambassadors, Turkish government, Turkish parliamentarians,
over a quarter of a century. Never once in that quarter of a century
has anybody in the Turkish government said to me, "OK, this is the
right time." In other words, there would be no right time. …
Hume: I mean, do you think it’s an urgent issue, something that
happened between Turks and Armenians in World War I?
Hoyer: Brit, do I think it’s an urgent issue? I think the issue of
genocide is a very urgent and present issue. It’s happening in Darfur
now. It happened in Bosnia not too long ago. And the world sat by
and watched. Yes, I think it’s an urgent issue.
Hume: Well, but nobody’s arguing that it wasn’t a mass killing or
even a massacre.
Hoyer: No, it was a genocide. And I understand some people are arguing
that well, let historians look at it. Historians have looked at
it. Nobel writers have looked at it. And there is a conclusion that,
in fact, this was a conscious effort to eliminate a race of people.
Hume: … [D]o you think it’s worth making this expression of this at
this time, all these years later, at the expense of souring relations
with a country who has helped us, is vital in the Mideast and in Iraq
in particular?
Hoyer: Well, I think Turkey’s help to us is vital. More vital is the
United States’ help to Turkey, Brit. Over the last half a century,
the relationship between the United States and Turkey has far more
advantage to Turkey than it has the United States. Are we both
advantageous to one another? We are. [Emphasis, The Stiletto’s.]
It’s an added irony that some of the very same conservatives who
decry the harassment of Christians in this country by the ACLU, the
killings of Christians in Muslim countries and in communist China
and the twin threats of Sharia-creep and Islamofascism are siding
with Turkey against Armenians, who were victims of the first Muslim
jihad against Christians in modern times.
As with the furor over the Danish cartoons and the flying Imams,
Turkey’s hysterical reaction to a historical fact is yet another case
of manufactured Muslim outrage.
Unlike some Christians who advocate worshipping Allah (hey, what’s the
diff?), HR 106/SR 106 gives Christians a way to express our outrage
over the centuries of dhimmitude that continue to this day in Turkey
and throughout the Middle East; to express our outrage over the
Ottoman Turks not only annihilating the Armenians but replicating
their murderous MO to drive out and slaughter Christians in the
Assyrian and Greek communities; and to express our outrage that the
price two-timing Turkey is extracting for its toxic friendship is that
Americans dirty our hands with the blood of Christian martyrs, instead
of cleansing our souls by belatedly joining the 22 other civilized
nations worldwide that have acknowledged the Armenian Genocide.
Note: The Stiletto writes about politics and other stuff at The
Stiletto Blog.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
