ROBERT FISK ABOUT GEORGE BUSH: TURKEY TRANSFORMED THE LION INTO A LAMB
PanARMENIAN.Net
12.11.2007 15:52 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "How are the mighty fallen!
President George Bush, the crusader king who would draw the sword
against the forces of Darkness and Evil, he who said there was only
"them or us", who would carry on, he claimed, an eternal conflict
against "world terror" on our behalf; he turns out, well, to be
a wimp. A clutch of Turkish generals and a multimillion-dollar
public relations campaign on behalf of Turkish Holocaust deniers
have transformed the lion into a lamb. No, not even a lamb for this
animal is, by its nature, a symbol of innocence but into a household
mouse, a little diminutive creature which, seen from afar, can even
be confused with a rat. Am I going too far? I think not," renowned
British journalist Robert Fisk writes in The Independent.
"The "story so far" is familiar enough. In 1915, the Ottoman Turkish
authorities carried out the systematic genocide of one and a half
million Christian Armenians. There are photographs, diplomatic reports,
original Ottoman documentation, the process of an entire post-First
World War Ottoman trial, Winston Churchill and Lloyd George and a
massive report by the British Foreign Office in 1915 and 1916 to prove
that it is all true. Even movie film is now emerging, real archive
footage taken by Western military cameramen in the First World War,
to show that the first Holocaust of the 20th century, perpetrated in
front of German officers who would later perfect its methods in their
extermination of six million Jews, was as real as its pitifully few
Armenian survivors still claim," he continues.
"But the Turks won’t let us say this. They have blackmailed the Western
powers, including our own British Government, and now even the U.S.,
to kowtow to their shameless denials. These (and I weary that we must
repeat them, because every news agency and government does just that
through fear of Ankara’s fury) include the canard that the Armenians
died in a "civil war", that they were anyway collaborating with
Turkey’s Russian enemies, that fewer Armenians were killed than have
been claimed, that as many Turkish Muslims were murdered as Armenians."
"Former Representative Robert L Livingston, a Louisiana Republican, has
already picked up $12m from the Turks for his company, the Livingston
Group, for two previously successful attempts to pervert the cause
of moral justice and smother genocide congressional resolutions. He
personally escorted Turkish officials to Capitol Hill to threaten
U.S. congressmen."
"Who would have thought that the leader of the Western world, he who
would protect us against "world terror", would turn out to be the
David Irving of the White House?" he resumes.
David John Cawdell Irving is an English writer specializing in the
military history of World War II.
Irving’s status as a historian has been widely discredited as a result
of controversy arising from his Holocaust denial and misrepresentation
of historical evidence.