On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:13:40 -0400, "Ray O'Hara"
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>"The Highlander" <micheil@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On 17 Oct 2007 23:58:17 -0700, sdr <sdrodrian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >Richard Cohen's contention that condemning
>> >genocide "will serve no earthly purpose" is
>> >one of the most incomprehensibly inhuman
>> >and shameful statements I have ever heard
>> >an American "journalist" make!
>> >
>> >Will not Mr. Cohen propose next that The
>> >United States should also begin to deny the
>> >Holocaust in order to promote better cooperation
>> >from Iran? Ah, no, wait: This would hurt our ties
>> >with Israel ... therefore no. Mr. Cohen might not
>> >propose that--After all, America's moral stand
>> >ought to have nothing to do with right or wrong,
>> >only with crass expedience!
>> >
>> >But surely Mr. Cohen WOULD propose the denial
>> >of the Holocaust if an im****tant ally like Germany
>> >were still engaged in protecting its NAZI heritage!
>> >
>> >The reason Turkey is engaged in this reprehensible
>> >and unforgivable denial of the Armenian Holocaust
>> >is NOT because it was perpetrated by some ancient
>> >and bygone Turkish government (albeit it was) but
>> >because its most ardent and enthusiastic perpetrators
>> >and instigators were her Muslim Imams--who roused
>> >their "congregations" to butcher as many human
>> >beings as they could get their hands on simply
>> >because they were NOT Muslims ... encouraging
>> >their "men" to murder, to rape, and to steal the
>> >properties of their pitiful victims--This in the
>> >numberless confessions of contrition and remorse
>> >by Turks who actually took part in the genocide!
>> >And an admission that this was indeed the case
>> >would be, in no uncertain terms, a condemnation
>> >and indictment of the blood-thirsty nature of Islam
>> >itself. [SEE: http://islamisbad.com
] This, the
>> >Islamists of Turkey, understandably, will never do.
>> >
>> >It is impossible to deny the Armenian Genocide.
>> >The only thing the genocide deniers can do is to
>> >bring shame & dishonor on themselves, Mr. Cohen.
>> >
>> >S D Rodrian
>> >http://poems.sdrodrian.com
>> >http://physics.sdrodrian.com
>> >
>> >RE:
>> >
>> >"Turkey's War on the Truth" By Richard Cohen
>> >Tuesday, October 16, 2007; Page A19 Wa****ngton Post
>> >
>>
>>http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/15/AR200710150
>1323.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
>> >
>> >"It goes without saying that the House resolution
>> >condemning Turkey for the "genocide" of Armenians
>> >from 1915 to 1923 will serve no earthly purpose and--"
>> >
>> >I could not read more without getting physically ill.
>> >
>> An excellent summary which mirrors my own views.
>>
>> What Turkey did to the Armenian Christians was genocide and no dancing
>> around the subject will change that.
>>
>> Turkey's reputation for cruelty and brutality is an historical fact.
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>every country's reputation for cruelty is an historical fact.
>it's a shared trait of mankind.
>yeah the turks got ugly with the armenians and the kurds.
>the brits did quite the job on the tasmanians, and they put down a lot of
>indians, and kurds and irish and scots.
>even the dutch and belgians have massacres in the past
>people can be real bastards.
The wealth of secondhand information revealed by your post above - and
by the way, the people of the British Isles are all Brits - leads me
to conclude that your own experience of massacres is limited to those
perpetrated by the US Army in Baghdad and My Lai.
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