Campaign Promise Yields To Governing

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CAMPAIGN PROMISE YIELDS TO GOVERNING

Watertown Daily Times
April 27 2009
MA

President Obama deftly managed to avoid a campaign promise Friday.

Presidential candidate Obama said he would officially recognize as
genocide the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey between April
1915 and 1923. Turkey denies the accusation.

However, on the 94th anniversary of the killings, President Obama
chose the path of his two predecessors and avoided the term.

Putting geopolitics ahead of campaign rhetoric, President Obama called
the deaths "a great calamity" and "one of the great atrocities of
the 20th century."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS