Submitted by John Halan, Feb 22, 2007 11:10

The genocide claims of Armenian Diaspora should be titled "Armenian Propaganda". How this fits into a genocidal claim is the work of money hungry politicians. Armenian lobby, one of the strongest in Washington is simply trying to buy a genocide to savor war-mongering Armenian state.

Imagine our country being invaded by multi national forces during wartime with plans to split this country up, a minority group whose lived in this country takes sides with the enemy hoping to create their own state and begin killing Americans. This is exactly what Armenians did. Turks resented Armenians who lived in their country for hundreds of years and reacted strongly. Majority of deaths occurred during deportation due to hunger and illness. Even today, almost 100 years after WWI, the same fate could occur in most countries, under similar conditions. The number of Armenian deaths are inflated while number of Turks dying are deflated. Russians did provide Armenians their own country after the war but it was under their communistic regime. 50 years later, genocide became an issue to claim their independence from the communists and get world attention.

If Armenian claims are so true, why won't the Armenia and Russia open their archives to the world for examination? What do they have to hide? Maybe the crimes they're responsible for against the Turks and Muslims? Why is it business of the politicians to decide historical issues and not the historians?

Turkey has been our most dependable ally for years. In fact, Turkey fought side by side with US in Korea, saving many US soldiers from slaughter. Ask any Korean veteran about Turkish soldiers brave acts. Turkey has been our friend through cold war, Korean war, Gulf war and all major conflicts. What has Armenia done for our country?? I can't think of one major contribution. In fact, they've been close friends of Communist Russia and continue to harbor Russian bases and military. Why would our politicians even support this country if they were not receiving large sums of contributions? This alone makes it the wrong reason to support this propaganda. Nancy Pelosi should open up her books and come clean about how much she's received from the Armenian diaspora.

This propaganda only jeopardizes our friendship with Turkey and confirm to the people of Turkey that our politics are self centered without respect to the truth, facts and respect to the people of a country we consider an ally. This issue should be left to the historians and is not worth risking our friendship with a major ally. Let historians decide historical issues, not money hungry politicians whose only goal is to get re-elected.

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