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Democrat Saboteurs
Benedict Reid and Judas Pelosi are back at it.
The Democrat resolution condemning Turkey, our most proximate ally in Iraq, for the Armenian Holocaust is another effort to undermine the Iraq war.
Query: why are Dems more interested in condemning a century old genocide than in preventing another one?
Thomas Sowell calls it what it is: sabotage.
. . . [The Democrats] want a resolution to condemn what happened as “genocide” — a word that provokes instant anger among today’s Turks, since genocide means a deliberate government policy aimed at exterminating a whole people, as distinguished from horrors growing out of a widespread breakdown of law and order in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
These are issues of historical facts and semantics best left to scholars rather than politicians.
If Congress has gone nearly a century without passing a resolution accusing the Turks of genocide, why now, in the midst of the Iraq war?
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that this resolution is just the latest in a series of congressional efforts to sabotage the conduct of that war.
Large numbers of American troops and vast amounts of military equipment go to Iraq through Turkey, one of the few nations in the Islamic Middle East that has long been an American ally.
Turkey has also thus far refrained from retaliating against guerrilla attacks from the Kurdish regions of Iraq onto Turkish soil. But the Turks could retaliate big time if they chose.
There are more Turkish troops on the border of Iraq than there are American troops within Iraq.
Turkey has already recalled its ambassador from Washington to show its displeasure over Congress’ raising this issue. The Turks may or may not stop at that.
In this touchy situation, why stir up a hornet’s nest over something in the past that neither we nor anybody else can do anything about today?
. . . Unwilling to take responsibility for ending the war by cutting off the money to fight it, as many of their supporters want them to, congressional Democrats have instead tried to sabotage the prospects of victory by seeking to micro-manage the deployment of troops, delaying the passing of appropriations — and now this genocide resolution that is the latest, and perhaps lowest, of these tactics.
This is why we initially named this site: ImpeachReidandPelosi.com.
Let us say it again: Impech Reid and Pelosi!