Comments on: I just don’t understand http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/10/14/i-just-dont-understand/ The Unpredictable Union of Pragmatism, Idealism, and Cynicism Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:25:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Brian http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/10/14/i-just-dont-understand/#comment-11282 Brian Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:55:31 +0000 http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/10/14/i-just-dont-understand/#comment-11282 I doubt the resolution itself has anything to do with war policy. The timing of the resolution, however, is pure interference. I don't think I've heard a single person object to the content of the resolution, other than the Turks of course. But the advocates of the resolution are pursuing it with the full knowledge of its effect on our foreign policy. I doubt the resolution itself has anything to do with war policy. The timing of the resolution, however, is pure interference. I don’t think I’ve heard a single person object to the content of the resolution, other than the Turks of course. But the advocates of the resolution are pursuing it with the full knowledge of its effect on our foreign policy.

]]> By: Del http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/10/14/i-just-dont-understand/#comment-11269 Del Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:31:02 +0000 http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/10/14/i-just-dont-understand/#comment-11269 So because of Lantos's big group of elderly Armenians we are pissing off Turkey? Are the Dems trying to put Bush out on a limb somehow with this? So because of Lantos’s big group of elderly Armenians we are pissing off Turkey? Are the Dems trying to put Bush out on a limb somehow with this?

]]> By: Reactionary http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/10/14/i-just-dont-understand/#comment-11266 Reactionary Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:23:33 +0000 http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/10/14/i-just-dont-understand/#comment-11266 Well, I'm sure that Rep. Paul will vote against it - another point on which I agree with the good doctor. TalEast - Pres. Bush didn't 'start a war'. The Afghan War is a response to 9/11; the Iraq War is a response to violation of the terms of the Gulf War I cease fire. Maybe you don't agree with the Iraq campaign, but it was a lawful continuation of the Gulf I war, not a 'start'. Well, I’m sure that Rep. Paul will vote against it - another point on which I agree with the good doctor.

TalEast - Pres. Bush didn’t ’start a war’. The Afghan War is a response to 9/11; the Iraq War is a response to violation of the terms of the Gulf War I cease fire. Maybe you don’t agree with the Iraq campaign, but it was a lawful continuation of the Gulf I war, not a ’start’.

]]> By: Talmadge East http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/10/14/i-just-dont-understand/#comment-11264 Talmadge East Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:42:27 +0000 http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/10/14/i-just-dont-understand/#comment-11264 Well we have a political government and this is politics, plain and simple, but not the politics that it has been labeled. California has a big Armenian lobby and look who chairs the committee that took up the bill and voted on it??? Tom Lantos from California. So this doesn't have ANYTHING to do with war policy as people have claimed. In any case George Bush advocated officially recognizing this act as genocide when he ran for President in 2000, but doesn't want what he himself advocated because he started a war. Personally I think it is in our interest to not take this vote right now, but it is not a bad thing. The Turkish people/government are VERY sensitive to this issue and in their words it would "permanently damage" our relationship with them. Unfortunately for us Turkey is the main way we get personnel and weapons in and out of Iraq. Well we have a political government and this is politics, plain and simple, but not the politics that it has been labeled. California has a big Armenian lobby and look who chairs the committee that took up the bill and voted on it??? Tom Lantos from California. So this doesn’t have ANYTHING to do with war policy as people have claimed. In any case George Bush advocated officially recognizing this act as genocide when he ran for President in 2000, but doesn’t want what he himself advocated because he started a war. Personally I think it is in our interest to not take this vote right now, but it is not a bad thing. The Turkish people/government are VERY sensitive to this issue and in their words it would “permanently damage” our relationship with them. Unfortunately for us Turkey is the main way we get personnel and weapons in and out of Iraq.

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