Since then, Turkey has change from Ottoman empire and now a secular country. Why should the people in Turkey living in new millenium have to be blamed for the sin committed by the fore fathers? If the current govt want to hide it, let it be.... you can't change anything by harping on such issue which happened in the last millennium. The focus should be on how many civilians has been killed as a result of the current US occupation in Oraq and Afghanistan. This is an even bigger genocide by the US against the Muslims. I'm afraid that some war monger amongst the Muslims could capitalise the War in Iraq, Afghanistan and now the Turkey issue to strengthen their case to attack US as a country which not able to "walk the talk" i.e. trying to "correct the history" ehen Us itself is creating a world history by starting a war that result in massive migration of the Iragis, Afghanis, increased opium trade into Europe and Asia from Afghanistan and global terrorism. Perhaps US congress should blame Adam and Eve for eating the forbidden fruit which results the human race to be thrown out of heaven !!!
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WAR if you lose you are a murderer, if you win you are a conqueror WAR is won by killing more people from the enemy side, somebody just wants to correct the history books and re-classify how the enemies died.
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The US should let it go already!!
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Just another Democrat attempt to sabotage the war!
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Its not aboout casting blame. It's just about wording. The current Turkish governement is pissed that the US Congress is calling what happened during that time period genocide. Everyone already knows that's what happened. No one is blaming the current governemnt for it. They just don't want it to be called what it really was, a deliberate attempt to eradicate an entire group of people. In other words...genocide. Sounds like someone is protesting too loudly. Or, as we say in the good ol' US, the guilty dog usually barks 1st. As a US citizen, I have a couple of observations. 1) With all of the problems we are facing here and abroad, why in the hell is the US Congress wasting time on crap like this to begin with? I mean, why waste the time, money, and effort rehashing a century old issue, and piss off ANOTHER ally in the process? I would rather they spend it on figuring out a way to save my Social Security $$$ or something worthwhile to us. 2) It's really none of our business, particularly 100 years later. The people in that part of the world have been killing each other at the slightest provocation for way longer than the US has existed, and no damn resolution will change that. What good is a resolution anyhow?
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No more than it is to blame every White man, woman and child living today in Georgia or Mississippi for Black slavery carried out in a different time and in a different world. The Buck stops at the Tomb. Get it? Or would you blame Hans, the 23 year old German Bus Driver for ... Auschwitz?
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Every one likes to accuse the president of being dumb but this is one where the Congress was being stupid and should apologize to Turkey.
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10 big thumbs up to Lynn. Exactly...that's a home run answer.
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The US Congress is not "blaming" the current Turkish Government for the Armenian Genocide - no-one does. If someone has said that to you then they are wrong and you shuold look up the actual wording yourself. The Armenian genocide was committed by the CUP (Committee of Union and Progress) that effectively controlled the Ottoman Empire from 1908-1918. the specific action of 1915-16 were not the first massacres and transportations of Armenians - it was the horrific culmination of at least 20 years of anti-Armenian agitations. Even the Current Turkish Government acknowledges that hundreds of thousands of Armenians died under the forced exiles (300,000 according to officual Turkish sources). Ottoman sources acknowledged about a million made up of 800,00 Armenians and 200,000 Greeks. Several Turks were condemned to death by trial and courts martial of the Ottoman Empire. More were condemned by post-war allied courts too. Only rabid nationalists refuse to accept that there were massed deaths of Armenians caused by the Ottoman Empire's actions. The only question for serious discussion is whether or not it was a genocide - defined as a systematic attempt to wipe out a specific group of people. There is certainly plenty of evidence that it was - numerous German and Austro-Hungarians throughout the Ottoman Empire reported it as such - remember they were allies of the Ottoman Empire at hte time. There are also numerous documents from the CUP that unequivocally state that the intent was to destroy Armenian culture and population. So on the whole I believe yes it was a genocide. However it was one perpetrated by ultranationalist islamicists determined to make "Turkey for the Turks" - not an attitude shared by every Turk even at the time, and not one anybody is trying to blame Turks for now either. Other nations have acknowledged the wrongdoings of their forebears, and many have yet to do so. Turkey is finding out that it is a long and difficult process. I hope they are able to come to grips with their past and accept what happened.
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