Post by BibleRiot on Oct 10, 2007 16:53:36 GMT -5
US House panel backs Armenian genocide bill
5 hours ago
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyx7xb5Sb8su-Rnz_H7WiRDJWNTA
So now we'll see what Nancy Pelosi does with it. Will she take it to the full house, where it has a good chance of passing?
I wonder how many of these Congressmen have read a book on the subject?
5 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) — A key congressional committee Wednesday defied warnings by President George W. Bush and Turkey, and endorsed a measure describing the Ottoman Empire's massacre of Armenians as "genocide."
The non-binding measure, which passed the Democratic-led House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee by 27 votes to 21 will now be sent on to the full House for a possible vote.
The text says the World War I killings of Armenians was a "genocide" that should be acknowledged fully in US foreign policy towards Turkey, along with "the consequences of the failure to realize a just resolution."
Bush and top lieutenants earlier were unusually blunt in attacking the resolution.
The president said the resolution would do "great harm" to ties with US ally Turkey, a Muslim-majority member of NATO whose territory is a crucial transit point for US supplies bound for Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to the Armenians, 1.5 million of their kinsmen died during World War I, in systematic deportations and killings under the Ottoman Empire.
Rejecting the genocide label, Turkey argues that 250,000 to 500,000 Armenians and at least as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians took up arms for independence in eastern Anatolia during the war.
Turkey had warned that passage of the House resolution could force it to bar the United States from a key military base in its south.
The non-binding measure, which passed the Democratic-led House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee by 27 votes to 21 will now be sent on to the full House for a possible vote.
The text says the World War I killings of Armenians was a "genocide" that should be acknowledged fully in US foreign policy towards Turkey, along with "the consequences of the failure to realize a just resolution."
Bush and top lieutenants earlier were unusually blunt in attacking the resolution.
The president said the resolution would do "great harm" to ties with US ally Turkey, a Muslim-majority member of NATO whose territory is a crucial transit point for US supplies bound for Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to the Armenians, 1.5 million of their kinsmen died during World War I, in systematic deportations and killings under the Ottoman Empire.
Rejecting the genocide label, Turkey argues that 250,000 to 500,000 Armenians and at least as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians took up arms for independence in eastern Anatolia during the war.
Turkey had warned that passage of the House resolution could force it to bar the United States from a key military base in its south.
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyx7xb5Sb8su-Rnz_H7WiRDJWNTA
So now we'll see what Nancy Pelosi does with it. Will she take it to the full house, where it has a good chance of passing?
I wonder how many of these Congressmen have read a book on the subject?