I'm sorry, I realize that I must be boring the pants off of most of the non-Armenians on my flist (that's most of you; come to think of it, one of the very few Armenians on my flist dumped me without warning or explanation last year).

I'm going to be obsessed with this topic for a while, as I will be every year at this time in particular.

I pre-asked this question for Gene Robinson at the Washington Post. I don't expect that he'll respond.

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Hi, Gene, I enjoy your column.

Since President Obama seems to be backing away from recognizing the Armenian Genocide (mustn't offend the Turks), I was wondering what else he might find convenient to deny. Germany would love to have the Holocaust removed from the history books, wouldn't they? And it was a long time ago...people should just get over it.

Heck, the American South would LOVE to have the whole history of slavery wiped off the records! And it's not like anyone is still alive who was actually enslaved back then. Shouldn't we just leave it all up to the historians? Let's look forward, not back!

Sorry to sound so bitter, but I'm the descendent of Genocide survivors. We lost many family members in what the Turks claim was a million or so unfortunate accidents. The last few survivors are dying now, with the US government still cooperating with the deniers.

I'm finding it particularly hard to take this from President Obama, given his previous clear statements on the topic. Any thoughts?

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.

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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.

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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.