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Bush Denies Turkish Holocaust
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Political Correctness; Posted on: 2007-11-15 14:35:59 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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George W. Bush: Armenian Holocaust Denier
Robert Fisk
How are the mighty fallen. President Bush, the crusader king who would draw the sword against the forces of Darkness and Evil, he who said there was only "them or us," who would carry on, he claimed, an eternal conflict against "world terror" on our behalf; he turns out, well, to be a wimp. A clutch of Turkish generals and a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign on behalf of Turkish Holocaust deniers have transformed the lion into a lamb. No, not even a lamb -- for this animal is, by its nature, a symbol of innocence -- but into a household mouse, a little diminutive creature which, seen from afar, can even be confused with a rat.
Am I going too far? I think not.
The "story so far" is familiar enough. In 1915, the Ottoman Turkish authorities carried out the systematic genocide of 1.5 million Christian Armenians. There are photographs, diplomatic reports, original Ottoman documentation, Winston Churchill and Lloyd George and a massive report by the British Foreign Office in 1915 and 1916 to prove that it is all true.
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Washington's Holocaust Deniers
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News Source: Robert Fisk
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