Article

2007-10-17 Home Front: Politix

Support Wanes in House for Genocide Vote

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Steve White 2007-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Mr. Sherman and others noted that Turkey, at the start of the Iraq war, had refused to let American forces operate from its territory

For which you can thank the USDS.

Posted by Pappy 2007-10-17 00:24|| 2007-10-17 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Outbreak of sanity or inability to accomplish anything no matter how pointless or irrelevant?

Posted by SteveS 2007-10-17 00:28|| 2007-10-17 00:28|| Front Page Top

#3 They wanted it, they should stick to their dreamcatchers and vote for it.

Now it looks like all we need is a few veiled threats and we roll over, naked bellies gleaming in the sunset.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-10-17 00:32|| 2007-10-17 00:32|| Front Page Top

#4 The Democrats' only real concern is that the effort to bring this vote to the floor is too transparently an attempt to subvert the mission in Iraq.

Dead U.S. soldiers attributed to the mistimed rightful condemnation of Turkish genocide would undermine all the political gains made by Pelosi and Reid's antiwar hordes.

Posted by Dopey Glolulet8941 2007-10-17 04:48|| 2007-10-17 04:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Compare wid RIAN > HOLODOMOR [Ukraine]: WAS IT ETHNOCIDE?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-17 05:26|| 2007-10-17 05:26|| Front Page Top

#6 #2 - lol! Probably the latter. On the bright side, at least they now they have determined how to define "genocide".

Personally, I'm sick of the Turks. They are a nation state of backstabbing bandits always willing to sell out to the highest bidder.

Posted by Unutle McGurque8861 2007-10-17 05:42|| 2007-10-17 05:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Now it looks like all we need is a few veiled threats and we roll over, naked bellies gleaming in the sunset.

That, and the fact that the Turks can now argue that the U. S. House of Representatives took up the question of the Armenian genocide and decided it hadn't happened. I'd hope the donks'd learn a lesson, but I doubt it.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-17 08:34|| 2007-10-17 08:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Ms. Pelosi, who has promised a vote on the resolution if it cleared the Foreign Affairs Committee, said she was leaving it to its chief backers to round up votes. I have never known a count, she said.

that's BS - any politician with a brain knows exactly how many votes they have on an issue. She's clueless, but even she's been there long enough to know from repetitive losing that it takes enough votes. Her quote shows she's losing votes by the hour. Now she's blaming the Senate for a general lack of ~~seriousness~~ legislative progress....way to deflect blame, Nan. Loser

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-17 09:22|| 2007-10-17 09:22|| Front Page Top

23:32 Zenster
23:28 Zenster
23:20 Zenster
23:18 Unutle McGurque8861
23:06 Bright Pebbles
22:46 Unutle McGurque8861
22:46 JosephMendiola
22:40 JosephMendiola
22:37 JosephMendiola
22:30 Alaska Paul
22:24 Alaska Paul
22:22 trailing wife
22:17 Alaska Paul
22:15 Unutle McGurque8861
22:14 trailing wife
21:57 Redneck Jim
21:39 trailing wife
21:35 lotp
21:32 lotp
21:31 Unutle McGurque8861
21:30 whitecollar redneck
21:28 Broadhead6
21:27 Redneck Jim
21:24 Broadhead6