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Eugene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 03:48 AM
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U.S. sponsors postpone push for Armenian genocide bill
Source: Reuters

U.S. sponsors postpone push for Armenian genocide bill
Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:46pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Backers of a resolution to
formally name the 1915 massacre of Armenians by
Ottoman Turks a genocide said on Thursday they
would postpone efforts to bring it to a vote in the
U.S. House of Representatives.

The sponsors conveyed their decision in a letter to
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after support for the
controversial resolution support faltered in the face
of vehement protests from NATO ally Turkey.

But the four chief co-sponsors who wrote the letter
did not totally give up on the proposal, which
Armenian-Americans have sought to pass in the
House for years but is strongly opposed by the
Bush administration.

The sponsors asked Pelosi not to schedule a vote
"at this time," but said they would continue to work
for "consideration sometime later this year, or
in 2008."

-snip-

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2525539920071026
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 08:36 AM
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1. "or in 2008" or perhaps never...
can't piss off our buddies the turks, now can we? after all they are setting things up for the false flag.
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