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I'm tired.
I'm tired of writing about this. I'm tired of thinking about it. But every time I read a story about it, I get outraged.
So when Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (R-PA) wrote an opinion piece for a Turkish website, supporting denial of the Armenian Genocide but adding that "I pray for the ethnic Armenians who lost their lives...", I felt that I had to respond. I suspect that my comment will not be approved by the Turkish editors, so here it is.
By the way, this is the same Congresswoman Schmidt who made a bit of a stir on the floor of the House by saying about wounded veteran John Murtha "Cowards cut and run, Marines never do".
Another point that infuriated me: there was a good piece over at the Huffington Post about the Genocide. But there was a Google ad at the bottom of that page for Genocide denial by the Turkish Coalition of America. The irony is killing me. Commercials for Genocide denial?!?
If the Holocaust had happened today, Nuremburg wouldn't have happened. Instead the Germans would have spent a lot of money, and whores like Jean Schmidt and - I fear - Obama would eagerly line up at the trough, happily denying that anything ever happened anywhere.
I'm tired of writing about this. I'm tired of thinking about it. But every time I read a story about it, I get outraged.
So when Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (R-PA) wrote an opinion piece for a Turkish website, supporting denial of the Armenian Genocide but adding that "I pray for the ethnic Armenians who lost their lives...", I felt that I had to respond. I suspect that my comment will not be approved by the Turkish editors, so here it is.
Keep your prayers, Congresswoman Schmidt. They're an insult to the dead.
I suppose it should shock me that someone sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States is unable or unwilling to understand that if you cover up a crime, you only encourage future criminals - as Hitler made all too clear when he said "Who today remembers the extermination of the Armenians?". But I'm sorry to say that I'm not at all surprised. There are far too many in Congress like Congresswoman Schmidt, people who'd sell their own mothers for a campaign contribution.
It's people like her who have brought the United States to its current desperate state.
By the way, this is the same Congresswoman Schmidt who made a bit of a stir on the floor of the House by saying about wounded veteran John Murtha "Cowards cut and run, Marines never do".
Another point that infuriated me: there was a good piece over at the Huffington Post about the Genocide. But there was a Google ad at the bottom of that page for Genocide denial by the Turkish Coalition of America. The irony is killing me. Commercials for Genocide denial?!?
If the Holocaust had happened today, Nuremburg wouldn't have happened. Instead the Germans would have spent a lot of money, and whores like Jean Schmidt and - I fear - Obama would eagerly line up at the trough, happily denying that anything ever happened anywhere.