THE INDEPENDENT: SOMEONE REMEMBERS THIS ATROCITY AT LAST – TO OBAMA’S DISMAY

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
08.03.2010 14:34 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Obama pleaded not to tell the truth about the savage
rape and murder of 1.5 million Armenian civilians by the Turks in 1915,
Robert Fisk wrote in the British Independent on March 6.

"George W Bush spinelessly caved in to the Turkish generals. And
now our favorite Nobel prize winner – another brave president who
promised to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide if he was elected and
then declined to do so… Good for the committee that it did not give
in. But it will do no good," the article wrote.

According to the author, that there will be no vote on the genocide
by the full House of Representatives and if there is, there’ll never
be a vote in the Senate, since Obama will help see to that. "The
man who wanted change doesn’t want change on the little matter of
a genocide that led directly to the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews,"
Robert Fisk wrote.

According to the newspaper, this year Turkey did not have the Israeli
lobby behind it, while in the past, Israel, disgracefully claiming
that the Armenian Holocaust was not a Genocide, has supported its
close ally Turkey. This year, Israelis are still miffed at Turkey’s
condemnation of the bloodbath in Gaza.

"The Turks sent their generals to bully Bush last time round. This
time, the Turkish Foreign Minister warned that "Turkish-US ties are
going through a very important phase in which they need strategic
co-operation at the highest level in their history." The message is
simple. Acknowledge the genocide, and the US will lose its airbases
in Turkey and the Turkish roads its military convoys use into Iraq,"
the Independent wrote.

"The fact, unfortunately, is that these roads are the very highwaysdown
which the Armenians were sent on their death marches in 1915. Our
faithful Turkish ally might even pack up its support for the US in
Afghanistan, where they are helping fight "Obama’s war". But Robert
Gates is still in Washington to remind congressmen what he said last
year; that America needed "those roads and so on". Well, let’s just
hope the American troops don’t halt their convoys and dig in the
fields around those roads in the coming years. The skeletons are
still there in their tens of thousands," Robert Fisk wrote.

"One wonders what would happen if Germany suddenly decided that the
Nazi Holocaust was not a genocide. Would Chancellor Merkel get away
with it? Would Obama lobby that Germany should be allowed to get
away with such an obscenity? Perhaps it’s worth remembering that in
1939, Hitler asked his generals – before setting off into Poland to
murder the millions of Jews in eastern Europe – a simple question:
"Who now remembers the Armenians?" Well, Hitler got the answer he
would have wanted from Obama this week, " The Independent concluded.