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1. NoChange Obama.
   Might as well have voted for McCain.

2. Dear President Obama,

   Despite my initial skepticism regarding your campaign avowals to call the Armenian Genocide as such, now that you have once again broken your promise to do so, I am surprised to find myself feeling disappointed. It turns out that I had some faith in your eloquent speeches.

   As a first-generation Armenian, this issue is important to me. Were I not Armenian, it would be as important to me, if I were aware of the facts. This leads me to one of the problems with your euphemistic actions: they teach a whole country, even the most erudite newspaper reading public, to doubt something that is a very real historical fact. You are promoting ignorance.

   The only upside to being a descendant of Genocide is that it forces me to judge other government policies with critical skepticism: seeing the way you treat the Armenian Genocide of 1915 leads me to seriously doubt your speeches and political stances.
   
   

3. What did the Russian leaders, Putin and Medvedev, have to say this April 24, and all throughout the year?  ZERO.   Same as in previous years.

   So, I ask you: Why is it so important that the US, which is not even an ally of Armenia, to acknowledge the Genocide when Russia, which is a so-called strategic ally of Armenia, does not commemorate the genocide in any substantial way, except that years ago the Duma acknowledged it?

   Because while we expect the US to get Turkey angry with an acknowledgment, we understand completely that Russia does not want to ruffle Turkey’s feathers.

   I would like to ask the Armenian Weekly and all Armenian papers to take a closer look at Russia if they  are going to harp incessantly on the US.
   I’m waiting.

4. Hi, Mike,
   The answer is simple. In contrast to the U.S. Russia is already among almost 30 countries that recognized the genocide of the Armenians. In contrast to the U.S. Congress, Russian Duma (lower chamber of the Russian Parliament) has passed resolutions acknowledging the historical fact. Therefore, there’s little incentive for the Medvedev/Putin duo to utter the ‘G’ word specifically on or before April 24. They can do so  whenever they like. Besides, Russians don’t have a Western democratic tradition of making addresses on various domestic and foreign policy issues on regular basis. Russian Armenians, Russian intellectuals, media reps, members of federal and provincial administrations, and members of the Russian Parliament, as a rule, attend Genocide commemoration events.
   Why is it so important that the U.S. acknowledge the Genocide? Because in contrast to Russia, the U.S. likes portraying itself as a beacon of democracy, human rights and high moral standards. Because being a democratic country the U.S. needs to respect the 95-year old plea by its almost 2 mln constituencies of Armenian origin. Because if the U.S. does not want to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, the country’s presidential candidates don’t need to give baloney promises to recognize it during the election campaigns. And finally, because Armenian-Americans have invested hundreds of millions of dollars to representatives on federal and state levels to acknowledge the historical truth.
   But it appears that mighty U.S. cowers before the paper tiger Turkey, a country for which the U.S. has provided 240 bln in aid, saved it from communism, provided help in smashing the Kurdish insurgency, and champions its entry to the European Union.
   But where are your moral values, America the Beautiful, America ‘the Great’?

5. Hye, thanks Paul.  The USA leaderships,today, with Obama not recognizing the Turkish Genocide of the Armenian nation – as he had pledged – hence he cannot also recognize the Darfurian Genocide.  Obama cowtows to a nation that ridicules the issue of Genocides – using PLOYS over and over to delay, distract and to even destroy efforts  bringing their guilt to justice . Too, the American media, takes a stance which negates the horrors of Genocides by barely giving any recognition of the facts… committed by Ottoman and their leaderships that follow…
   – 44 of 50 USA states today recognize the Turkish Genocide of the Armenians
      (including Hawaii – where Obama says is his birthplace(…
   – International Genocide organizations recognize Turks Genocide of Armenians
   – Archives the world over filled with eyewitness accounts of Turks violence
   – the Vatican recognizes the Genocide of the Armenian nation by Turks
   – the New York Times, having overcome their omissions, printed news of the
      Turkish violence during the years of the Turkish Genocide of the Armenians
   – Members of Congress, recognizing the need to end the cycle of Genocides,
      dedicate their efforts, against paid Turkish lobbyists…
   – Learned and honest writers, the world over, who number amongst those who
      continue to speak up for the Armenians, dedicated to the honest of the issue…
   And, for shame to the US State Department, their former Ambassador Henry Morgenthau’s continued pursuit seeking recognition of the Turkish leaderships
   inhumanity to the Amenians written as well, in his memoirs. 
   Omissions of the facts aids the Turks, who have been violating truths these 100 years…
   Hence today, a Turkey has ‘gotten away with murders’ and worse!   Crimes which, when commited  in most nations the perpetrators would be found guilty and penalized by their laws. 
   As yet, Genocides are not considered to be ‘against the laws’…
   – perpetrators – winners;
   – victims – losers!
   Politics wins – Morality lost…
   Manooshag

6. Hye, thanks Paul.  The USA leaderships,today, with Obama not recognizing the Turkish Genocide of the Armenian nation – as he had pledged – hence he cannot also recognize the Darfurian Genocide.  Obama cowtows to a nation that ridicules the issue of Genocides – using PLOYS over and over to delay, distract and to even destroy efforts  bringing their guilt to justice . Too, the American media, takes a stance which negates the horrors of Genocides by barely giving any recognition of the facts… committed by Ottoman and their leaderships that follow…
   – 44 of 50 USA states today recognize the Turkish Genocide of the Armenians
      (including Hawaii – where Obama says is his birthplace).
   – International Genocide organizations recognize Turks Genocide of Armenians
   – Archives the world over filled with eyewitness accounts of Turks violence
   – the Vatican recognizes the Genocide of the Armenian nation by Turks
   – the New York Times, having overcome their omissions, printed news of the
      Turkish violence during the years of the Turkish Genocide of the Armenians
   – Members of Congress, recognizing the need to end the cycle of Genocides,
      dedicate their efforts, against paid Turkish lobbyists…
   – Learned and honest writers, the world over, who number amongst those who
      continue to speak up for the Armenians, dedicated to the honesty of the issue…
   And, for shame to the US State Department, their former Ambassador Henry Morgenthau’s continued pursuit seeking recognition of the Turkish leaderships
   inhumanity to the Amenians written as well, in his memoirs. 
   Omissions of the facts aids the Turks, who have been violating truths these 100 years…
   Hence today, a Turkey has ‘gotten away with murders’ and worse!   Crimes which, when commited  in most nations the perpetrators would be found guilty and penalized by their laws. 
   As yet, Genocides are not considered to be ‘against the laws’…
   – perpetrators – winners;
   – victims – losers!
   Politics wins – Morality lost…
   Manooshag

7. THANK YOU PAUL… Excellent commentary…

   THANK YOU MANOOSHAG.. for confirming and validating..

   Hopefully it was enough for Michael K to understand as to WHY USA who repeatedly us the Armenian Genocide matter to collect the votes from million of American Armenians at every election… needs to stop this cowardice and wipe his nose from the crying as a baby …. US CAN”T bow down to a country like Turkey… What is wrong with this picture?? What is wrong with this system? What is wrong with our govt???

   Gayane

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