October 18, 2007

The recent condemnation of Turkey over the Armenian genocide.

I heard about this on the news while traveling and didn't think that much about it. David Limbaugh did and came up with an interesting idea -- quite plausible considering the leanings of the people who initiated this. From David's website:
An Egregiously Reckless Resolution
Why, now, of all possible critical moments, are congressional Democrats insisting on passing a resolution guaranteed to offend Turkey, our vital ally in the Iraq War, by denouncing the Ottoman Empire's century-old massacre of Armenians as a "genocide"?

Nancy Pelosi and her cohorts have been warned that Turkey will be deeply offended by the move and may even take punitive action against us by withdrawing their permission for us to use Incirlik Air Base, through which well more than half of our air cargo passes in route to supply our troops in Iraq. Human Events editor Jed Babbin reports that some 95 percent of the new MRAP (mine-resistant, ambush protected) vehicles, designed to save our troops' lives, pass through Incirlik. Also as a result, Turkey might decide to attack Kurdish terrorist forces against our strong urging not to do so.

What on earth are Democrats trying to pull here? They are the same people that barely blanch when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust. It's not like we need to worry about offending Iran, a charter member of the Axis of Evil and by last count a sworn enemy of the United States, actively working to defeat us in Iraq.
Appalling divisiveness on the part of the Democrats -- no wonder Congress' performance ratings are in the dumpster... Posted by DaveH at October 18, 2007 5:43 PM
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