U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Passes Armenian Genocide Resloution... AGAIN

Armenians around the world are celebrating again.... I know exactly what I want to say today, and oddly enough I said most of it on this very blog back on 10/11/2007 http://www.cilicia.com/2007_10_01_armo_spiurk-backlog.html

Once again I was at work an couldn't watch the debate. Once again I was relying on facebook, twitter and text messages for updates.


Sadly, this year it was only 23 votes not 27.


Again, the White House wasn't able to stop this. Turkey wasn't able to stop it with their threats about relations, borders, protocols etc. I said it two years ago and I'll say it again now. EMPTY THREATS - CALL THEIR BLUFF! Turkey can not afford to lose the U.S. as an ally. They recalled their ambassador then and they recalled him now. BIG DEAL!

My favorite thing about today was reading in an article posted on the Los Angeles Times website this passage

The committee's nearly split vote came after a packed meeting attended by three genocide survivors, who support the measure. Pointing to the survivors -- ages 97, 98 and 105 -- Rep. Gary L. Ackerman (D-N.Y.) said: "They're here for justice. How long can they wait?"