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Couldn't be no one has caught the "Resolution to Condemn the Armenian situation as a genocide"?
What timing! Let's PO Turkey right now. It's okay, that was the Ottoman Empire that massacred Armenians. The Turks of today shouldn't be sensitive about their grandfathers being tagged. Right. And it was the Confederacy that started a war to preserve slavery. Why not a resolution to condemn the Confederacy? It really won't offend our southerners.
Oh yes, it was the long-ago Ottoman Empire and the more remote Confederate States of America. If it don't stink, don't stir it.
ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
Actually Ole I didn't miss it. Bill is currently sponsored by Tom Lantos (D, California), who is actually a Holocaust survivor. Naturally, he will be sensitive towards genocide. Without even considering the merits of the proposal, I concur with Ole, it seems that we're alienating a stalwart NATO ally and in return we receive nothing in return. It seems typical of Congress in these days to waste costly legislative resources debating measures that ultimately have no bearing on our well being. This era of history really should be in the hands of historians and frankly even if it were a current issue with war criminals at large, it should correctly be addressed in places like the Hague.
Oh, I thought this was about turkey meatballs and sausage.
Them, too, Sam. Is your better half also concerned with cholesterol? And lite mayo or sour cream, that sucks too. Whatever happened to hash browns fried in bacon grease? Yummy.
ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
More important things to do and the Congress somehow finds the time to address something that happened almost 90 years ago by a political entity that no longer exists?
__________________ F. S. Powers
Union Ancersor: Pvt Arnuah Norton, 60th Ohio. (G-G-G Grandfather) Died at Salisbury NC, November 3, 1864
Confederate Ancestors: Captain Thomas A. Morrow, 29th Texas Cavalry (G-G-G- Uncle) and 2LT George W. Morrow, 31st Texas Cavalry (G-G-G Grandfather). Both survived the war
I'm not clear on that, can a Congressional Resolution be vetoed like a bill approved at Capital Hill? Besides, I hear the Dems are bailing out of this action (well some of then anyway).
__________________ F. S. Powers
Union Ancersor: Pvt Arnuah Norton, 60th Ohio. (G-G-G Grandfather) Died at Salisbury NC, November 3, 1864
Confederate Ancestors: Captain Thomas A. Morrow, 29th Texas Cavalry (G-G-G- Uncle) and 2LT George W. Morrow, 31st Texas Cavalry (G-G-G Grandfather). Both survived the war
Believe they're two mostly separate things that are coincidental.
Believe the "please don't invade Northern Iraq at this time" came first and was possibly grabbed as a way to give GW a bad week.
I could be wrong, but I'm sure I heard a quack and noted a waddle.
ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
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