This is just amazing, and it shows you how complete the Zionists control america's media.
Not only this case, but both newspapers are filled with Zionist slanted bias today.
I'm sorry for the ugly, unvarnished truth, readers, but it is so blatantly apparent.
It actually hurts me now.
Anywho, can you imagine the reaction if Bush had come out and said this instead:
"Due to the political problems at this given time, I have decided that a resolution to create a Jewish state in the Middle East would not be in the best interests of the United States or world stability. Our partners in Saudi Arabia and our access to their oil requires patience, and we feel that the resolution should not be adopted at this time."
How much longer do you think Mr. Bush -- or any American president -- would escape the wrath of the news pages?
About this long, readers, and you know it. And the ultimate twist and irony? The Zionists benefit from the promotion of this story.
Keeps "holocausts" in the news; why you think they leading with it?
Never mind that -- despite 50-75 air raids in Iraq and Afghanistan a day -- there are no reports of any Muslim deaths in those countries in my war dailies today.
What gives, huh, readers?
"Genocide vote sets a face-off with Bush; WWI Armenian issue tests US-Turkey ties" by Farah Stockman/Boston Globe October 11, 2007
WASHINGTON - A key congressional committee approved a resolution yesterday that brands the World War I-era Ottoman Empire massacres of Armenians as genocide, despite warnings from President Bush that the measure would anger Turkey, a crucial US ally assisting the effort in Iraq.
In a rare show of urgency, Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates each declared that the resolution the House Committee on Foreign Affairs approved could lead Turkey's leaders to curb vital US military supply routes through their country, leaving American troops without enough equipment to conduct operations in neighboring Iraq.
"We all deeply regret the tragic suffering of the Armenian people," Bush told reporters on the White House lawn hours before the vote. "This resolution is not the right response to these mass killings."
The 27-to-21 vote by the Democratic-controlled committee, which broke largely along party lines, sends the resolution to the House floor for a vote in the coming weeks. Supporters argued that the resolution is long overdue, while those against it declared that it comes with a high price for US interests in the region.
"We will not forgive this genocide. But I cannot support this resolution at this time," said Representative Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican, citing US troops in Iraq who depend on Turkish supply lines. "This is not the time for this nation to speak on this dark chapter of history."
In Massachusetts, home to an estimated 50,000 Armenian-Americans, activists dedicated to having the killings designated as genocide welcomed the news.
"It's absurd to think that we can have a foreign policy that does not acknowledge the past," said Sharistan Melkonian, a Waltham resident who chairs the Armenian National Committee of Eastern Massachusetts. She said US foreign policy has up until this point been "held hostage to lies."
[ Yup!]
The Armenian-American community began a successful movement this summer to persuade local towns to withdraw from the No Place for Hate program run by the Anti-Defamation League, an antidiscrimination group, because the League did not formally recognize the Armenian genocide. Last month the League acknowledged that the mass killings were "tantamount to genocide," but it has declined to support the resolution in Congress. The League has said it will revisit that position next month.
The Armenian community also has plans for a memorial to the massacre, to be built on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston. But the proposal has generated controversy and opposition from some residents and officials, including Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who want to keep the Greenway free of such monuments.
In Washington, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat whose district has a large Armenian population, vowed to bring the measure to the House floor for a vote. A similar bill is making its way through the Senate, where Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have supported it.
Speaking with the Globe editorial board yesterday, Clinton said she cosponsored the bill because it seemed "to be a statement of recognition of a horrible period in the history of the Armenian people." But she acknowledged concern about Turkey's reaction, saying the opposition there has been greater than anticipated.
"Many of us have been somewhat taken aback by the ferocity of the [Turkish prime minister Tayyip] Erdogan government's response," she said. "The adamant expression of real dismay and outrage by this Turkish government has to be factored into this."
[What, nutty Nancy in over her head again?
No sympathy here, since she has told us all to fuck off!]
US officials believe the resolution would further strain the already tense relationship between the United States and Turkey, which recently massed troops on Iraq's northern border to battle alleged terrorist incursions from Kurdish separatists in Iraq's northern region.
President Abdullah Gul of Turkey has sent Bush a letter warning of repercussions if Congress passes the genocide resolution. A parliamentary delegation from Istanbul is in Washington this week to argue against the resolution, and Turkey has retained DLA Piper, a top Washington lobbyist firm, to represent it on Capitol Hill.
Armenians, a centuries-old Christian minority that came under oppressive rule by the Ottoman Empire in southwest Asia, have struggled for world recognition of the slaughter of their people nearly a century ago, in the area that now makes up modern-day Turkey.
Armenian scholars and others say more than a million men, women, and children died or were executed between 1914 and the late 1920s as nationalist Turkish leaders expelled or exterminated them in an attempt to create a modern state. Turkish officials reject that view of history, saying that the ethnic clashes between Turks and minority Armenians resulted from war and chaos following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, not from a coordinated campaign.
The historical question of whether those killings constitute a state-sponsored attempt to destroy the Armenian people has been hotly debated. Each side has pushed for resolutions declaring its viewpoint at the state, local, and national level.
[Yeah, there is only one holocaust you can't question or debate.
El-STINKO!!!!]
US officials have said that they do not dispute the significance of the mass killings, but that it is not in American interests to risk angering Turkey by declaring the slaughter genocide, an internationally recognized term that would bring shame and dishonor to the nation. In a statement issued after yesterday's vote, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the resolution does little to help Turks and Armenians bridge their differences, yet risks "grave harm to US-Turkish relations and to US interests in Europe and the Middle East."
US administrations have wrestled over how to deal with the topic for years. Eight former secretaries of state recently wrote to Pelosi warning that the nonbinding resolution "would endanger our national security interests."
President Reagan called the Armenian killings genocide but none of his successors has done the same, out of deference to Turkey.
Past efforts in Congress to force the president to call the killings a genocide have failed to get a vote on the House floor. In 2000, a similar resolution was aborted when President Clinton convinced House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, that consideration of the measure would jeopardize American lives.
But Bush and Pelosi are unlikely to reach that kind of agreement, according to Bulent Aliriza, a Turkey analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank.
"Given the relationship, and the fundamental disagreements they have on national security, one has to wonder whether those kinds of personal calls would make a difference," Aliriza said.
That's good news to Sevag Arzoumanian, a Cambridge resident who runs the website noplacefordenial.com. Arzoumanian, who spearheaded the local movement against the Anti-Defamation League, said yesterday that he is "really disappointed" that Turkey can bully Bush, the leader of a superpower. "Every time it comes up in Congress, it is killed by the administration, the Pentagon, the State Department," he said. "They say, 'It is not the right time.' It is never the right time."
"House Panel Raises Furor on Armenian Genocide" by STEVEN LEE MYERS and CARL HULSE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — A House committee voted on Wednesday to condemn the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey in World War I as an act of genocide, rebuffing an intense campaign by the White House and warnings from Turkey’s government that the vote would gravely strain its relations with the United States.
The vote by the House Foreign Relations Committee was nonbinding and so largely symbolic, but its consequences could reach far beyond bilateral relations and spill into the war in Iraq.
Turkish officials and lawmakers warned that if the resolution was approved by the full House, they would reconsider supporting the American war effort, which includes permission to ship essential supplies through Turkey and northern Iraq.
President Bush appeared on the South Lawn of the White House before the vote and implored the House not to take up the issue, only to have a majority of the committee disregard his warning at the end of the day, by a vote of 27 to 21.
“We all deeply regret the tragic suffering of the Armenian people that began in 1915,” Mr. Bush said in remarks that, reflecting official American policy, carefully avoided the use of the word genocide. “This resolution is not the right response to these historic mass killings, and its passage would do great harm to our relations with a key ally in NATO and in the global war on terror.”
The resolution was introduced early in the current session of Congress and has quietly moved forward over the last few weeks. But it provoked a fierce lobbying fight that pitted the politically influential Armenian-American population against the Turkish government, which hired equally influential former lawmakers like Robert L. Livingston, Republican of Louisiana, and Richard A. Gephardt, the former Democratic House majority leader, who backed a similar resolution when he was in Congress.
Backers of the resolution said Congressional action was overdue.
“Despite President George Bush twisting arms and making deals, justice prevailed,” said Representative Brad Sherman, a Democrat of California and a sponsor of the resolution. “For if we hope to stop future genocides we need to admit to those horrific acts of the past.”
[Meanwhile, there is a GENOCIDAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST MUSLIMS going on right now by USrael!!
Go ask a Gazan. Ask an Iraqi. Ask an Afghani. Ask a Paki. Ask an American.
I know it, they know it, we all know it, and so will history you mass-murdering, evil, satanic cabal of monsters!!]
The issue of the Armenian genocide, beginning in 1915, has perennially transfixed Congress and bedeviled presidents of both parties. Ronald Reagan was the only president publicly to call the killings genocide, but his successors have avoided the term.
When the issue last arose, in 2000, a similar resolution also won approval by a House committee, but President Clinton then succeeded in persuading a Republican speaker, J. Dennis Hastert, to withdraw the measure before the full House could vote. That time, too, Turkey had warned of canceling arms deals and withdrawing support for American air forces then patrolling northern Iraq under the auspices of the United Nations.
The new speaker, Nancy Pelosi, faced pressure from Democrats — especially colleagues in California, New Jersey and Michigan, with their large Armenian populations — to revive the resolution again after her party gained control of the House and Senate this year.
There is Democratic support for the resolution in the Senate, but it is unlikely to move in the months ahead because of Republican opposition and a shortage of time. Still, the Turkish government has made it clear that it would regard House passage alone as a harsh American indictment.
The sharply worded Turkish warnings against the resolution, especially the threats to cut off support for the American war in Iraq, seemed to embolden some of the resolution’s supporters. “If they use this to destabilize our solders in Iraq, well, then shame on them,” said Representative Joseph Crowley, a Democrat from New York who voted for it.
The Democratic leadership, however, appeared divided. Representative Rahm Emanuel, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, who worked in the Clinton White House when the issue came up in 2000, opposes the resolution.
In what appeared to be an effort to temper the anger caused by the issue, Democrats said they were considering a parallel resolution that would praise Turkey’s close relations with the United States even as the full House prepares to consider a resolution that blames the forerunner of modern Turkey for one of the worst crimes in history.
“Neither of these resolutions is necessary,” a White House spokesman, Gordon D. Johndroe, said Wednesday evening. He said that Mr. Bush was “very disappointed” with the vote.
A total of 1.5 million Armenians were killed beginning in 1915 in a systematic campaign by the fraying Ottoman Empire to drive Armenians out of eastern Turkey. Turks acknowledge that hundreds of thousands of Armenians died but contend that the deaths, along with thousands of others, resulted from the war that ended with the creation of modern Turkey in 1923.
Mr. Bush discussed the issue in the White House on Wednesday with his senior national security aides. Speaking by secure video from Baghdad, the senior American officials in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, raised the resolution and warned that its passage could harm the war effort in Iraq, senior Bush aides said.
Appearing outside the West Wing after that meeting, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates noted that about 70 percent of all air cargo sent to Iraq passed through or came from Turkey, as did 30 percent of fuel and virtually all the new armored vehicles designed to withstand mines and bombs.
“They believe clearly that access to airfields and to the roads and so on in Turkey would be very much put at risk if this resolution passes and the Turks react as strongly as we believe they will,” Mr. Gates said, referring to the remarks of General Petraeus and Mr. Crocker.
Turkey severed military ties with France after its Parliament voted in 2006 to make the denial of the Armenian genocide a crime.
As the committee prepared to vote Wednesday, Mr. Bush, the American ambassador to Turkey, Ross Wilson, and other officials cajoled lawmakers by phone.
Representative Mike Pence, a conservative Republican from Indiana who has backed the resolution in the past, said Mr. Bush persuaded him to change his position and vote no. He described the decision as gut-wrenching, underscoring the emotions stirred in American politics by a 92-year-old question.
“While this is still the right position,” Mr. Pence said, referring to the use of the term genocide, “it is not the right time.”
The House Democratic leadership met Wednesday morning with Turkey’s ambassador to Washington, Nabi Sensoy, and other Turkish officials, who argued against moving ahead with a vote. But Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, who now holds Mr. Gephardt’s old job as majority leader, said he and Ms. Pelosi would bring the resolution to the floor before Congress adjourned this year.
In Turkey, a fresh wave of violence raised the specter of a Turkish raid into northern Iraq, something the United States is strongly urging against. A policeman was killed and six others were wounded in a bomb attack in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, the state-run Anatolian News Agency reported.
The Associated Press reported from the town of Sirnak that Turkish warplanes and helicopters were attacking positions along the southern border with Iraq that are suspected of belonging to Kurdish rebels who have been fighting Turkish forces for years.
[Looks like the war is expanding and escalating.
So let's see:
We are not going to call the Armenian Holocaust what it is and let Turkey off the hook (can you imagine letting Nazi Germany off the hook, reader? That's how deeply embedded the Zionist propaganda is).
And now, we are going to allow them to commit genocide against the Kurds!!
Already killed around 30K so far.
Is it just me, or does the fact that Israel and Turkey are close allies contribute to the under-coverage of that story.
While Israel trains Kurd terror teams in Kurdistan to attack Iran?
And the Zionists have no problem throwing others overboard to advance their selfish aims, the inflation of this story to the front page -- while we have active wars hidden and omitted from the papers -- is not surprising at all.
Keeps discussions on holocausts, and CUI BONO?]
The Turkish government continued to prepare to request Parliament’s permission for an offensive into Iraq, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggesting that a vote could be held after the end of Ramadan. Parliamentary approval would bring Turkey the closest it has been since 2003 to a full-scale military offensive into Iraq.
Sedat Laciner, from the International Strategic Research Institution, said that the Turkish public felt betrayed by what was perceived as a lack of American support for Turkey in its battle against the Kurds.
“American officials could think that Turkish people would ultimately forget about the lack of U.S. support in this struggle,” Mr. Laciner said, using words that could apply equally to views about the Armenian genocide. “Memories of Turks, however, are not that easy to erase once it hits sensitive spots.”
[Or the memories of anyone, for that matter.
Let's face it, folks, our experiences make us who we are.]
