Comments on: Turkey Defiant On Possible Iraq Invasion

Amid Diplomatic Row With U.S., Leader Says They’ll Go After Rebels "Whatever Its Price"

[toldyouso21]

Despite President George Bush twisting arms and making deals, justice prevailed,%u201D said Representative Brad Sherman, a Democrat of California and a sponsor of the resolution. %u201CFor if we hope to stop future genocides we need to admit to those horrific acts of the past.%u201D

Posted by AJMarine1 at 07:56 PM : Oct 12, 2007

It is COLD COMFORT to admit genocide 100 years after it occurred. NO doubt someone will revisit our little debacle in Iraq in future generations and some of our descendants can object to it being called genocide and the US being held responsible.

But as for this congressman: If we wish to stop genocide, the time to stop it is when it is forming and is going on, not commenting on it later. Genocide is not a movie where , if it is panned 100 years later, it has any real effect. Stop it now. Don''t give money to it--or weapons or soldiers, don''t pretend it is right or just or protects interests--we have a lot of nerve to review any country''s inhumanity to others right now--considering what we caused and helped to unleash in Iraq. it is the pot calling the kettle --"dirty bottom"

[toldyouso21]

WANT TO HEAR FROM THE LIBERALS CONDEMNING TURKEY FOR GOING AFTER THESE REBELS WHO KEEP ATTACKING THEM?

(Crickets Chirping)
Posted by bizzzz at 01:29 PM : Oct 12, 2007

I don''t think liberals are against people defending themselves against those who attack them. I think they ARE against those who were not attacked starting wars or causing a war based on lies and going halfway around the world to kill people who had done nothing to us, but seemed to have our oil under their sand.

[toldyouso21]

Didn''''t they hang Sadaam for what Turkey wants to do?

Posted by rickstas at 06:06 PM : Oct 12, 2007

so who will hang Bush for doing the same thing?

[roxy-83]

The only reason Congress is trying to pass this bill of genocide that occcured in WW1 is because they are intetionally trying to cause conflict with Turkey. If they suceed , Turkey will cut of ties with USA and stop the supplies that our troops receive. If our troops do not receive the supplies they need to survive they will end the war. They are only hurting our troops by doing so. There is no other reason for Congress to try and pass a bill of genocide 100 years after it happened. It is only to their convinence.

[ajmarine1]

Backers of the resolution said Congressional action was overdue.

%u201CDespite President George Bush twisting arms and making deals, justice prevailed,%u201D said Representative Brad Sherman, a Democrat of California and a sponsor of the resolution. %u201CFor if we hope to stop future genocides we need to admit to those horrific acts of the past.%u201D

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.

[iceman_1960]

RE: Post by beachroses at 06:58 PM : Oct 12, 2007

You know how Muslim leaders like this Erdogan like to threaten America. They can''t help it:

"Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation''s fury." - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

"Democrats are harming the future of the United States and are encouraging anti-American sentiments" -Recep Tayyip Erdogan

"We say our terror against America is blessed terror in order to put an end to suppression, in order for the United States to stop its support to Israel." - Osama bin Laden

[beachroses]

""Democrats are harming the future of the United States and are encouraging anti-American sentiments," Erdogan said. Democratic Party leaders in the House of Representatives support the resolution."

I thought that bore repeating, since some of you didn''t seem to read the article before commenting.

[bizzzz-2009]

Personally, I say the US gets together with Turkey on this one. Even though the north is the most peaceful area as far as we''re concerned, they still are conducting incursions into a NATO allied country, the ONLY Muslim country in NATO.
I don''t get the Kurds frankly. Saddam gassed them after the first Gulf War. We avenged them by overthrowing him and eventually, he was hanged. Now they want to attack Turkey?? Can these people just chill?
If Turkey wants to invade which it looks like they do, we should make them occupy the area for a period of time.

[rickstas]

Didn''t they hang Sadaam for what Turkey wants to do?

[ajmarine1]

al Qaeda couldn''''t possibly get any bolder than they were on 9/11.

Posted by Iceman_1960 at 04:46 PM : Oct 12, 2007,

I hope you are right on this one.