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Pelosi’s Turkey misadventure
I’ve seen a lot written about the Congressional Democrats odd ‘urgency’ to pass a non-binding resolution declaring that the massacre that happened 90 years ago against Armenians by Turkey is genocide, but nothing gets to the heart of the matter like this piece written by Jed Babbin, where he discusses what’s at stake – and the real reasons behind the Dem push for this resolution:
Congressional Democrats anxious to force a withdrawal of American forces from Iraq are frustrated by their inability to muster a veto-proof majority for legislation that would establish a firm date for retreat. But what they cannot do directly they are now working hard to do indirectly.
According to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey is the transshipment point for about 70% of all air cargo (including 33% of the fuel) going to supply US forces in Iraq. Included are about 95% of the new “MRAP” — mine-resistant, ambush-protected — vehicles designed to save the lives of American troops. Turkey wasn’t always this helpful. In 2003, the Turks refused permission for the 4th Infantry Division to enter Iraq through Turkey.
Turkey’s Erdogan government has indicated that if the House of Representatives takes action on a non-binding resolution being pushed by Speaker Pelosi, Turkey might revoke our ability to use Incirlik as a waypoint for Iraq supplies.
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On October 11, Pelosi said, “While that may have been a long time ago, genocide is taking place now in Darfur, it did within recent memory in Rwanda, so as long as there is genocide there is need to speak out against it.”
But the resolution is gratuitous and Democrats’ timing suspicious. It’s gratuitous because, in 1981, President Reagan referred to the Armenian massacre as genocide in a proclamation commemorating the Nazi Holocaust.
Why, if Pelosi is so committed to ending genocide, aren’t she and Senate Democrat leaders doing something about the ongoing genocide in Darfur or the massacres of protesters in Burma?
Speaker Pelosi said, “This isn’t about the Erdogan government. This is about the Ottoman Empire.” Baloney.
The Democrat leadership could write and pass legislation insisting the UN intervene to save the living instead of using the memory of the dead to score political points. In neither case should we intervene militarily. But the lack of concern for ongoing mass murder proves the Democrats’ only purpose is to enrage the Turkish government and end their cooperation on Iraq.
Read the whole thing.
For anyone out there who had any lingering doubts, I think the push for this resolution proves beyond a shadow of a doubt where the sympathies of Democrats in Congress are, and it’s not with our troops, nor the mission to win in Iraq, and instead is – as we’ve seen so many times before – an attempt to force us into withdrawal from Iraq, because defeat there would be a defeat for the President not just on the battlefield, but politically, which is the first and foremost consideration Democrats have when it comes to matters related to the war in Iraq. Their strategy is that the worse they can make the President look, the worse (via extension) Republicans running for re-election will look in the eyes of the American people. This in spite of the positive news reports that we’ve read/seen/heard about since the surge strategy was put into place earlier this year.
Victory in Iraq is not even on the radar to these people. America’s reputation in the world is meaningless to them. It’s all about shoring up support from their far left base, and having other voters lose so much confidence in the Repubilcans’ ability to fight the war on terror that naturally, they would turn to Democrats.
Gary Gross is fired up as we all should be over this issue, and has more.
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Nothing like sucker punching the war effort when all of your other efforts to ensure failure in Iraq have failed. If Turkey does, indeed, go into Iraq and create a huge international crisis, will the dems be blamed? Of course not, all of the dems masters in the mainstream media will, once again, blame President Bush.
What was that quote somebody posted by Abraham Lincoln about traitorous senators/congressmen?
Deliberately attempting to alienate a key ally in an effort to hamstring the US during a war meets the very definition of treason and sedition. I’m not going to pull any punches here, I am up front questioning not only their patriotism, but calling it like it is, and that is treason and sedition. The simple fact that they are doing this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that their loyalties lie not with the US, but with their own desire for petty partisan power. This is treason and sedition pure and simple. It’s a dishonest and vile back door approach to lose the war, to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, in the most dishonest and sneaky way, rather than risk the political fallout of trying to do it honestly and directly. Disgusting, dishonest, and treasonous. And their MSM buddies will whitewash the whole thing.
I have never, and I mean never, been so disgusted at the Democrat party as I am now. This goes beyond the pale, and they should be punished for this.
This sneak attack by Mme Pelosi and her minions should surprise no one. After all, it was she who announced a separate Dem foreign policy last year (in opposition to the White House’s) while she was prancing around Syria and the middle east.
This is going beyond questioning Democrat Patriotism. This is Treason and Sedition. Time to hang Pelosi and her suckup brigade.
Who was the signees for the resolution, both Democrat and Republican?
We should post a list, and get a calling.
Make it known to everyone what they are trying to do. I am not just talking Pelosi, I am talking everyone who signed on to this with her. If thre is Republicans in that mix then we should seriously consider trying to get them removed and getting someone with brains up there.
5, sanity, the problem is that this resolution should have been voted for years ago, like in the Carter or Clinton administrations. Ask your Democrap Congresscritter why they didn’t even bring up such a resolution then. When they stammer, tell them that the reason was that socialist/traitors like them couldn’t hurt the troops in a battlezone like they want to now.
Sure they love the troops. Love like a preying mantis.
Tom McMahon succinctly puts this into the Four-Block World. Never has so much been said in so few words.
So let me get this straight here… preventing genocide is not sufficient reason to remain in Iraq. Although it was suffient to go to war in Kosovo, from which quagmire we have not yet extricated ourselves. And neither was it excuse to meddle in Rwanda, except that Bush is a hypocrite because he won’t go into Darfur to stop it?
Okay, all clear now. Genocide is always bad, except when it isn’t. Worst of all is genocide that occurred nearly a century ago in a polity that doesn’t exist anymore.
You know, I’m just not smart enough for politics. Good thing we have all these sooper-dooper geniuses to take care of it for us. Somebody like me would make himself stupid trying to hold so many contradictory ideas in my head and acting on every one.
This a link calling for pelosi removal as speaker and from the house as a whole
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Either this is another attempt by the Democrats and Pelosi to sabatage the American effort in the Middle East or this is another example of the foreign policy recklessness and ignorance of Pelosi and the Democrats.