From 1915 to 1918, over 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the "Young Turk" government of the Ottoman Empire.
On Wednesday, October 10, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to label those mass killings over 80 years ago as genocide. The resolution is now headed for a vote in the full House.
But Turkey doesn't want to be accused of past genocide. And the Bush administration doesn't want to ruffle those Turkey feathers.
It's about priorities.
You see, if we make the Turkish government mad, it might shut down access to our air bases in Turkey, which we need to continue our assault on Iraq, which we illegally attacked in 2003.
So, to make a long story short:
If a country commits genocide, but we need the support of that killer country in order to do our own killing, then we must ignore their killing and let them get away with it. What are a mere 1.5 million lives among friends?
In other words, pay no attention to Turkey's massacre, because we need Turkey's support in order to continue with our own massacre.
Believe it or not, we're talking about America here.
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