I suppose it is simply easier to avoid an issue where they might actually have the scary possibility of having to take military action?

What’s Congress’ poll standing again?

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The garbage about the timing of the resolution is just that, garbage. The resolution should have been passed years ago. There is no excuse whatsoever for any further delays.

I agree, but the counterarguments are worth articulating.

According to Teresita at the Elephant Bar, Y2K candidate Bush wrote

The twentieth century was marred by wars of unimaginable brutality, mass murder and genocide. History records that the Armenians were the first people of the last century to have endured these cruelties. The Armenians were subjected to a genocidal campaign that defies comprehension and commands all decent people to remember and acknowledge the facts and lessons of an awful crime in a century of bloody crimes against humanity. If elected President, I would ensure that our nation properly recognizes the tragic suffering of the Armenian people.

Bush’s statement is here.

Teresita adds:

…after being strung along by Turkey right up to D-Day in the Iraq War, then having to shift to a single-front campaign at the last minute, I would have thrown the Turkish ambassador out of the country on his ass. I sure as hell wouldn’t lobby Congress to let them maintain their Big Lie.

This begs the question of why America’s top-level war leadership continued to rely on Turkey after Turkey had just left us in the lurch.