The Reaction -- by Michael J.W. Stickings
"What happened to Armenians in the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1917 was genocide -- an estimated 1.5 million killed, a brutal and systematic process of deportation and slaughter aimed at wiping out the Armenian population -- but you wouldn't know it if you got your history from the Turks, who committed the genocide (now known as the Armenian Genocide, or Holocaust), or from their present-day apologists in the Bush Administration, from Bush and Rice and Gates, the Holocaust deniers who sit at the top of the U.S. government. The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a resolution last week, calling what happened to the Armenians what it was, genocide, but the deniers wanted none of it:.."
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The whole thing makes me nervous, though I'm convinced the Ottomans did kill millions, I'm not sure bestirring old ghosts is a wise course, be they the ghosts of Native American, abused African slaves, or disposed Southern rebs.
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