Michael Ramirez on the Turkey Armenian Genocide Flap
Murtha: Armenian Genocide Vote to Fail
Rep. John Murtha, a prominent Democrat, said Wednesday that his party’s leadership underestimated opposition to a resolution on Armenian genocide and predicted that such a vote would easily fail.
Murtha’s comments came as President Bush urged Congress not to infuriate Turkey, considered a key U.S. and NATO ally that has facilitated the flow of critical cargo to American troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The House proposal, which would label as genocide the killing of Armenians a century ago by Ottoman Turks, has inflamed U.S. tensions with Turkey, which says the death toll has been inflated and was the result of civil unrest. Support for the nonbinding resolution deteriorated this week after Turkey recalled its U.S. ambassador to Ankara and congressional opponents including Murtha, D-Pa., warned their colleagues that it would cripple U.S. relations with Turkey.
During the Clinton Administration, President Clinton asked the GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert to not bring up this resolution in the name of national security. President Bush asked the same of Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi would not accomodate the President and has brought up this resolution that will now likely fail.
Is there any wonder why the Congress under her Democrat leadership is languishing in the polls? And alienating allies.
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