Planned House Vote on Armenian Massacre Angers Turks

“Our two nations should oppose measures and rhetoric that needlessly and destructively antagonize each other”

A planned vote in Congress that would classify the widespread killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish government early in the 20th century as genocide is threatening to make bilateral relations unusually ... via New York Times

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"a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
does it really matter what we call the genocide/massacre? it doesn't change what happened.

[FRED PORTER]

DEAR REPRESENTATIVE LANTOS,

WE UPSET OTHER GOVERNMENTS ALL THE TIME UNNESSISARILY. OVER 1,000,000 INDIVIDUALS WERE
RAPED, TORTURED, AND KILLED IN THE MOST BRUTAL FASHION. ALL THIS RESOLUTION DOES IS
TO RECOGNIZE THEIR MEMORY, A MEMORY THAT HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN AMD WHICH FEW INDIVIDUALS EVEN KNOW ABOUT. WE RECOGNIZE OTHER GENOCIDES CONSTANTLY: THE JEWISH GENOCIDE, THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE, THE GENOCIDES OF STALIN, LENIN, MAO, AND OTHER COMMUNIST DICTATORS, ETC., ETC. WHY IS THIS A GENOCIDE THAT WE SHOULD NOT RECOGNIZE?

[Captain A]

FREE PARIS HILTON!!!