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2007-10-10 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-10 12:52|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Please shut up, George.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-10 12:59|| 2007-10-10 12:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Congress, If there's no problem, create one.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-10-10 13:00|| 2007-10-10 13:00|| Front Page Top

#3 In George's Dhimmi mind Muslims never commit genocide.

What an asswhip.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-10-10 13:03|| 2007-10-10 13:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe some you who are far better at reading the smoke signals than can enlighten me:

1) Why are we doing this now & which congress folks are spear heading it (that should tell the ulterior motives or not)?
2) What's the significance if our country says it was a genocide? Turkey can tell us to kiss their *ss publicly but then still do business as usual behind the scenes.
3) The bill's not binding, so what does it really mean if it even passes the senate?

side note: Seems there are 22 other countries that recognized this as a genocide to include, Poland, Russia, & Soviet Canuckistan

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-10-10 13:10|| 2007-10-10 13:10|| Front Page Top

#5 To caveat my above comments; if the shoe fits, wear it.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-10-10 13:13|| 2007-10-10 13:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Why are we doing this now

This is not news. The bill has been struggling to get passed for decades.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-10 13:27|| 2007-10-10 13:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Mr. President, I for one am damn tired of your blind spot when it comes to Muslims. Why not call a genocide a genocide?

Without truth, a nation is doomed.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-10-10 13:36|| 2007-10-10 13:36|| Front Page Top

#8 I have long been dubious about the treatment in the US of the entire issue.

This is because when my *grandfather* was going to college, a corrupt dean shorted the students dinner one day a week, supposedly to send money to "the starving Armenians". But it was discovered that he was pocketing the money, a fairly substantial amount.

The university administration did nothing, so my grandfather did. Pretending to be a parochial student, he went to the dean's house and persuaded his gullible wife to give him several of the dean's chickens, "to help feed starving orphans."

So at least for one week, the student's stolen dinner was replaced by fried chicken. Fortunately for my grandfather, the dean was smart enough to write them off.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-10 13:54|| 2007-10-10 13:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Historical question, why'd the Turks go after the Armenians and not the Kurds, or both. Why not do what the Soviets did and just uproot and move the folks you don't care for. Move the Armenians to Jerusalem. Get the Kurds to act as your elite soldiers in keeping the Arabs in line. Divide and conquer.

The Turks really were lame Imperialists.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-10-10 15:34|| 2007-10-10 15:34|| Front Page Top

#10 To answer #9, because Saladin was a Kurd and the Ottomans were afraid of creating another Kurdish general who could effectively lead troops against them in Arabia.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-10-10 16:17|| 2007-10-10 16:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Uprooted and moved during the middle of the winter, thus death.

Posted by Heriberto Ulusomble6667 2007-10-10 17:18|| 2007-10-10 17:18|| Front Page Top

#12 The Armenians were Christians, the Kurds Muslim, rjschwarz. So of course the Kurds couldn't be touched until the kaffir issue was addressed.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-10 19:34|| 2007-10-10 19:34|| Front Page Top

#13 The article hints at the phrase we await: "Armenian right of return".

Posted by Chuckles Jaise7272 2007-10-10 20:32|| 2007-10-10 20:32|| Front Page Top

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