Former US officials form genocide task force

TOMNov 13th, 2007 - 19:28:27

These people should first stop covering up the Turkish Genocide on Armenian people , before building a 'Genocide Prevention Task Force'. The partnership of US and Israel is build on the foundation of lies and deniail of Armenian Genocide !! But truth and honesty are the best policy


From: The Independent

Robert Fisk: Holocaust denial in the White House
The Turks say the Armenians died in a 'civil war', and Bush goes along with their lies
Published: 10 November 2007
How are the mighty fallen! President George Bush, the crusader king who would draw the sword against the forces of Darkness and Evil, he who said there was only 'them or us', who would carry on, he claimed, an eternal conflict against 'world terror' on our behalf; he turns out, well, to be a wimp. A clutch of Turkish generals and a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign on behalf of Turkish Holocaust deniers have transformed the lion into a lamb. No, not even a lamb – for this animal is, by its nature, a symbol of innocence – but into a household mouse, a little diminutive creature which, seen from afar, can even be confused with a rat. Am I going too far? I think not.
The 'story so far' is familiar enough. In 1915, the Ottoman Turkish authorities carried out the systematic genocide of one and a half million Christian Armenians. There are photographs, diplomatic reports, original Ottoman documentation, the process of an entire post-First World War Ottoman trial, Winston Churchill and Lloyd George and a massive report by the British Foreign Office in 1915 and 1916 to prove that it is all true. Even movie film is now emerging – real archive footage taken by Western military cameramen in the First World War – to show that the first Holocaust of the 20th century, perpetrated in front of German officers who would later perfect its methods in their extermination of six million Jews, was as real as its pitifully few Armenian survivors still claim.
But the Turks won't let us say this. They have blackmailed the Western powers – including our own British Government, and now even the US – to kowtow to their shameless denials. These (and I weary that we must repeat them, because every news agency and government does just that through fear of Ankara's fury) include the canard that the Armenians died in a 'civil war', that they were anyway collaborating with Turkey's Russian enemies, that fewer Armenians were killed than have been claimed, that as many Turkish Muslims were murdered as Armenians.
And now President Bush and the United States Congress have gone along with these lies. There was, briefly, a historic moment for Bush to walk tall after the US House Foreign Relations Committee voted last month to condemn the mass slaughter of Armenians as an act of genocide. Ancient Armenian-American survivors gathered at a House panel to listen to the debate. But as soon as Turkey's fossilised generals started to threaten Bush, I knew he would give in.
Listen, first, to General Yasar Buyukanit, chief of the Turkish armed forces, in an interview with the newspaper Milliyet. The passage of the House resolution, he whinged, was 'sad and sorrowful' in view of the 'strong links' Turkey maintained with its Nato partners. And if this resolution was passed by the full House of Representatives, then 'our military relations with the US would never be as they were in the past... The US, in that respect, has shot itself in the foot'.
Now listen to Mr Bush as he snaps to attention before the Turkish general staff. 'We all deeply regret the tragic suffering (sic) of the Armenian people... But this resolution is not the right response to these historic mass killings. Its passage would do great harm to our relations with a key ally in Nato and in the global war on terror.' I loved the last bit about the 'global war on terror'. Nobody – save for the Jews of Europe – has suffered 'terror' more than the benighted Armenians of Turkey in 1915. But that Nato should matter more than the integrity of history – that Nato might one day prove to be so important that the Bushes of this world may have to equivocate over the Jewish Holocaust to placate a militarily resurgent Germany – beggars belief.
Among those men who should hold their heads in shame are those who claim they are winning the war in Iraq. They include the increasingly disoriented General David Petraeus, US commander in Iraq, and the increasingly delusional US ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, both of whom warned that full passage of the Armenian genocide bill would 'harm the war effort in Iraq'. And make no mistake, there are big bucks behind this disgusting piece of Holocaust denial.
Former Representative Robert L Livingston, a Louisiana Republican, has already picked up $12m from the Turks for his company, the Livingston Group, for two previously successful attempts to pervert the cause of moral justice and smother genocide congressional resolutions. He personally escorted Turkish officials to Capitol Hill to threaten US congressmen. They got the point. If the resolution went ahead, Turkey would bar US access to the Incirlik airbase through which passed much of the 70 per cent of American air supplies to Iraq which transit Turkey.
In the real world, this is called blackmail – which was why Bush was bound to cave in. Defence Secretary Robert Gates was even more pusillanimous – although he obviously cared nothing for the details of history. Petraeus and Crocker, he said, 'believe clearly that access to the airfields and to the roads and so on in Turkey would be very much put at risk if this resolution passes...'.
How terrible an irony did Gates utter. For it is these very 'roads and so on' down which walked the hundreds of thousands of Armenians on their 1915 death marches. Many were forced aboard cattle trains which took them to their deaths. One of the railway lines on which they travelled ran due east of Adana – a great collection point for the doomed Christians of western Armenia – and the first station on the line was called Incirlik, the very same Incirlik which now houses the huge airbase that Mr Bush is so frightened of losing.
Had the genocide that Bush refuses to acknowledge not taken place – as the Turks claim – the Americans would be asking the Armenians for permission to use Incirlik. There is still alive – in Sussex if anyone cares to see her – an ageing Armenian survivor from that region who recalls the Ottoman Turkish gendarmes setting fire to a pile of living Armenian babies on the road close to Adana. These are the same 'roads and so on' that so concern the gutless Mr Gates.
But fear not. If Turkey has frightened the boots off Bush, he's still ready to rattle the cage of the all-powerful Persians. People should be interested in preventing Iran from acquiring the knowledge to make nuclear weapons if they're 'interested in preventing World War Three', Bush has warned us. What piffle. Bush can't even summon up the courage to tell the truth about World War One.
Who would have thought that the leader of the Western world – he who would protect us against 'world terror' – would turn out to be the David Irving of the White House?

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EDNov 13th, 2007 - 19:31:46

If Our Friends (Turkey) Do It, It Is Not Genocide !

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JATNov 13th, 2007 - 21:07:17

I think we can all agree that preventing future genocide and mass atrocities are a worthy cause, and that this effort should not be derailed due to disagreement over past atrocities. Once the Task Force issues its report, then is the time to see if they have fulfilled their promise.

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patriotNov 13th, 2007 - 21:31:48

The American Republic recognizes the Genocide of the Armenian People,1915.


On behalf of the People of the American Republic and the United States of America, we deeply apologize for the Genocidal acts against your people (Armenians) and recognize that Genocide was carried out on your people by the Government of Turkey in 1915.

WE are not loyal to the Government of Turkey, and need not their land for strategic positioning. Turkey should and will recognize their acts of criminal (Genocide) violence against a race of people, as others will be punished for their crimes of genocide in Darfur, Rwanda, Bosnia, Soviet, the Americas (Indians), and any other. The UN and others do not even adhere to their laws:

Once the American Republic is in control, it will formally proceed to insure compensations, apologizes and land returned to the Armenian people, so they can live a life of liberty and respect. As for the government of Turkey, they will be dealt with under new Law. All other countries participating in Genocide will also be dealt with, the people affected will also be recognized. They to shall be returned to their lands and compensated. The UN and other Government bodies do not have the dignity and reason to do what is right, thus the strength of the American Republic.

We are not afraid of the TRUTH, are You?

We are a Legion of many, who will live a life of peace, and have respect for all living things, while having considerations for those who are different, and look for ways to truly accommodate those who are slow in understanding.

We support the poor, helpless, and defenseless people. We support the freedom of Women, we support the sane treatment of animals and the environment, we support the freedom of religion and expression. We do not support ignorance, period.

We are a growing nation of people that encourage anyone or Nation anywhere to become part of the New American Republic!

Sincerely,
Judah Ben-Hur
Ambassador
The American Republic
American Mujahideen Army Council
Headquarters: United States of America

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OmarNov 13th, 2007 - 22:00:52

What the hell is a genocide task force? These people just won't go away. When they lose their job they suck around until they come up with something official sounding that will put $$$ in their pockets. Albright should stay out to pasture. She was a lousy Sec of State and tried to hide her ethnicity.

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SP4: Really?Nov 13th, 2007 - 22:42:22

Perhaps Ms. Albright should look at the genocide in Iraq and start backing the one guy's play who has been trying to stop the Islamic genocide there for 4 years.

Also, look who gave China Most Favored Nation Status in the 1990's, and are now the biggest backers of the government committing genocide there.

Then, go ask the President in power back in 1995 why he was taking campaign dollars from the folks who are now enabling that nation to commit the genocide, and why they keep taking dollars from them for the NEXT Clinton presidency???

This would be comic, if not so sad!

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