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turkey is defineitely worse than hitler

































hitler tastes like chicken


bada-bing!
Crash Blood
6:46:20 AM
10/11/07

Only if you cook it that way.
Fuegofox
6:54:26 AM
10/11/07

Well I guess, most of the chicks I know are turkeys.
uncliff
7:01:54 AM
10/11/07

and not only do they taste like chicken, but they smell like tuna
Crash Blood
7:14:22 AM
10/11/07

Turkey is an interesting and beautiful country. I spent some time there in the early '80s. I was visiting my parents in Ankara when the military coup happened. That was a little scary!

On another visit, I rode the "Midnight Express" train (was that the name of the movie?) from Ankara to Istanbul in 1981. Beautiful countryside. Warm and wonderful people. Corrupt government.
Grave Dancer
7:41:30 AM
10/11/07

i agree. turkey is wonderful when it is warm, and the bread slightly toasted


Crash Blood
7:47:21 AM
10/11/07

Turkey worse than Hitler?

In 1916.
The good old USA

-All women as second class citizens without a vote (The 19th Amendment was passed by congress on August 26,1920).

- Black Americans were segregated - like Apartheid South Africa. This was 39 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up a bus seat for a white, and 41 years before they could attend the same high school.

-The US was still experiencing scurvy as a shipboard disease when most of the world was not.

We did not look too pretty then either.
manuka
7:48:45 AM
10/11/07

in 1916, believe hitler was just a corporal in the german army
Crash Blood
8:11:44 AM
10/11/07

But now he's Sarge?
uncliff
8:18:04 AM
10/11/07

i'm in ur sovrun nations, havin' my way with your wimmens
Crash Blood
8:25:14 AM
10/11/07

I busted him to Corporal.
MarkOTheBeast
8:56:58 AM
10/11/07

Is that the average of Private Sarge?
uncliff
9:15:19 AM
10/11/07

Some insight to what happened:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide

Sounds horrific. At least 500,000 killed, possibly up to 1.5 million, sounds like genocide to me.
jmitch
10:29:44 AM
10/11/07

It is a tough call.

Turkey sammich or Brautwurst and Kraut.
bacpac
10:38:20 AM
10/11/07

Check out UNIT 731
UH Huh...any comment from this crowd about say the RAPE of Nanking? or maybe someone can google these names and ask...Why weren't they prosecuted?

Dr Masaji Kitano led Japan's largest pharmaceutical company, the Green Cross. Others headed U.S.-backed medical schools or worked for the Japanese health ministry. Shiro Ishii in particular went on to supervise biological research at the University of Maryland
Fuegofox
10:58:05 AM
10/11/07

such wonderful news!!!
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Turkey has recalled its ambassador to the United States, Nabi Sensoy, in response to a House resolution that would call the World War I massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces "genocide," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Thursday.


U.S. Air Force planes prepare to take off from Incirlik Airbase in Turkey in this file photo.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the measure 27-21 on Wednesday evening, even though President Bush and key administration figures lobbied hard against it. The full House is expected to vote on it, possibly Friday.

A top Turkish official warned Thursday that consequences "won't be pleasant" if the full House approves the resolution.

"Yesterday some in Congress wanted to play hardball," said Egemen Bagis, foreign policy adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "I can assure you Turkey knows how to play hardball."

The administration is expected to try to persuade the Democratic leadership not to schedule a vote by the full House, according to The Associated Press.

But House Democratic leaders said earlier if the Foreign Affairs Committee passed the resolution, they intended to bring it to the House floor. Watch why the resolution stirs strong emotions »

The House was not in session on Thursday because of the funeral of Rep. Jo Ann Davis of Virginia, who died on Saturday. Members may vote on the resolution on Friday.

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Turkey, a NATO member, has been a key U.S. ally in the Middle East and a conduit for sending supplies into Iraq.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday that good relations with Turkey are vital because 70 percent of the air cargo intended for U.S. forces in Iraq and 30 percent of the fuel consumed by those forces flies through Turkey.

U.S. commanders, Gates said, "believe clearly that access to airfields and roads and so on in Turkey would very much be put at risk if this resolution passes and the Turks react as strongly as we believe they will."

Bagis said since a French Parliament committee passed a similar resolution last year, no French planes have flown through Turkish airspace.

He said the response to the U.S. might not be the same, but warned if the full House passes it, "We will do something and I can promise you it won't be pleasant."

Bagis spoke to reporters while he was in Washington to attend a meeting of the Carnegie Endowment.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said, in a statement on his Web site, that the resolution was "unacceptable" and "doesn't fit a major power like the United States."

In a letter to Bush, Gul warned that "in the case that Armenian allegations are accepted, there will be serious problems in the relations between the two countries."

"We still hope that common sense will prevail and that the House of Representatives will not move this resolution any further," a statement on the Turkish Foreign Ministry Web site said.

The vote was also strongly criticized by Turkish newspapers, the AP reported. "Bill of Hatred," said Hurriyet's front page, while Vatan's headline read "27 Foolish Americans."

Undersecretary of State Nick Burns said Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice would call the Turkish leadership Thursday to express "deep disappointment" with the vote.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack issued a statement expressing "regret" for the committee's action, warning the resolution "may do grave harm to U.S.-Turkish relations and to U.S. interests in Europe and the Middle East."

The nonbinding House resolution says the deportation of nearly 2 million Armenians from the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923, resulting in the deaths of 1.5 million of them, amounted to "genocide."

Turks strongly reject the genocide label, insisting there was no organized campaign against the Armenians and that many Turks also died in the chaos and violence of the period.

Ambassador Sensoy said the resolution's passage would be a "very injurious move to the psyche of the Turkish people."

He predicted a backlash in the country, saying there would be setbacks on several fronts: Turkish-American relations, Turkish-Armenian relations and the normalization of relations between the nations of Turkey and Armenia.

The resolution's sponsor, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, said the measure already had 226 co-sponsors, more than enough votes to pass "and the most support an Armenian genocide resolution has ever received."

A similar resolution passed the committee by a 40-7 vote two years ago, but it never reached the full House floor.


The resolution arrives at a particularly sensitive point in U.S.-Turkish relations. The United States has urged Turkey not to send its troops over the border into northern Iraq to fight Kurdish separatist rebels, who have launched some cross-border attacks against Turkish targets.

Observers of U.S.-Turkish relations have argued the House resolution could make Turkey less inclined to use restraint in dealing with its longstanding problems with the Kurdistan Workers
earthnsky
11:19:35 AM
10/11/07

Warm and wonderful people.
10:41:30 AM
10/11/07

I only know the Turks here and they'll #&%!$ anything that has a heartbeat, or might have had a heartbeat.
bearmagnet
11:24:26 AM
10/11/07

We gonna let Turkey kick sand in our faces?
MarkOTheBeast
11:28:41 AM
10/11/07

So to prove that they're not genocidal, they're going to wipe out a bunch of Kurds???
Ghoulbeet
11:33:27 AM
10/11/07

Something like that.
MarkOTheBeast
11:35:40 AM
10/11/07

That's too bad for you BM.
Grave Dancer
11:35:58 AM
10/11/07

No it wasn't. I just made sure there was never a turk behind me...
bearmagnet
11:42:34 AM
10/11/07

I worked in DC for a long time. It's not hard to come accross a few #&%!$s regardless of the nationality.
last edited: 10/11/07 11:48:38 AM
Grave Dancer
11:48:20 AM
10/11/07

A few? The Turkish mafia is all encompassing. Worst than the Moroccans.
last edited: 10/11/07 12:04:41 PM
bearmagnet
12:04:22 PM
10/11/07

Shocking, GD!   Simply Shocking.    < LOL >


BTW, we snatched up as many of the Japanese chem-bio warfare guys as we could for Our programs.... like we grabbed von Braun and his guys before the Soviets could.

Somehow I forgot the Japanese Death Ships ---- take the 17th century slave ships from Africa and update them a little, and you get the picture.

All through the 50s and 60s, it was "Our Germans can beat up Your Germans!"
thirdterm
12:06:33 PM
10/11/07

Wow, sounds like all of DC sucks now. Glad I never moved back.
Grave Dancer
12:09:15 PM
10/11/07

asking people to stay on topic here is like asking a turk to be nice. LOL!
bearmagnet
12:09:27 PM
10/11/07

Jose Ferrer wasn't too nice in Lawrence of Arabia.
thirdterm
12:23:04 PM
10/11/07

AND now the REAL reason the Libbies support this crap on Turkey? Well Turks are some of our biggest supporters in Iraq..it is the best way Nancy PELOOOOSi will be able to torpedo the war in Iraq...wow but I bet she still supports the troops.

According to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey is the transshipment point for about 70% of all air cargo (including 33% of the fuel) going to supply US forces in Iraq. Included are about 95% of the new “MRAP” -- mine-resistant, ambush-protected -- vehicles designed to save the lives of American troops. Turkey wasn’t always this helpful. In 2003, the Turks refused permission for the 4th Infantry Division to enter Iraq through Turkey.

Turkey’s Erdogan government has indicated that if the House of Representatives takes action on a non-binding resolution being pushed by Speaker Pelosi, Turkey might revoke our ability to use Incirlik as a waypoint for Iraq supplies.


http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22840
Fuegofox
7:15:11 AM
10/16/07

LOL!

Personally I'm against the resolution and the consequences for US policy in the Middle East are a big part of the reason. The other issue: whether its liberals or conservatives who are mostly behind it, it seems like more American arrogance to me. There aren't any House resolutions on things involving us that might be called genocide, why should the House go out and make declarations about another country's history when they won't address our own? If historical truth that far back is a worthy subject for political declarations, lets have an international commission take on world history for the past however many decades. If not, then let the historians handle it - or provide more subtle pressures for the Turks and Armenians to work it out.
pedxing
7:29:08 AM
10/16/07

Well strangely enough in the 1990's when the libbies had the whole banana...Senator Tom LANTOS..opposed it becuase he felt it would damage relations...wonder what changed his mind...I am thinking like all the libbies I know he wants American Troops to lose their supplies so more will die.
Fuegofox
8:02:51 AM
10/16/07

The other issue: whether its liberals or conservatives who are mostly behind it, it seems like more American arrogance to me.

No kidding. I don't think doing something like this is what we want to do to a country who is Islamic but fairly liberal. This would only push them deeper into fundamentalism. Plus the fact it was actually Turkey that did it but the Ottoman Empire, yes?
Nigal
8:16:31 AM
10/16/07

It should've been done long ago.

They're still arresting people for speaking the truth about it.
thirdterm
8:30:58 AM
10/16/07

You may find that the deep pockets of a desperate lonely superpower walking the world on a narrow beam tends to ballast the balance.
uncliff
8:43:54 AM
10/16/07

that is why I fully support it. Anything that makes it difficult for Bush to wage his war of agression against the innocent people of Iraq, is a good thing.
EarthNsky
9:24:18 AM
10/16/07

By the time of the genocide, the "Empire" wasn't much more than Turkey proper.

It was known as The Turkish Empire or Turkey by contemporaries.

But I think even at its greatest expanse, the Ottoman Empire was not Turkey like the Roman Empire was not Italy.
bearmagnet
9:51:37 AM
10/16/07

So, germany didn't own stock in the Nazi party?
uncliff
10:03:40 AM
10/16/07

YEs Un...but at the end of the Second World War they made it a CRIME to be an Nazi...they turned over hundreds of Nazis to our troops.

Oh and the Ottomans were....MUSLIM....OOPS.

If you are going to pull something try and get the facts...

ENS good line, now go to the next page of the Libbie "we Hate America" handbook..that is a trite line.
Fuegofox
10:10:27 AM
10/16/07

how is hating Bush, hating america?

I love America, but Bush is a scumbag and he is ruining our country and the world.
earthnsky
2:34:25 PM
10/16/07

besides, most americans these days hate Bush. So, if you support him, then your against America.
earthnsky
2:37:30 PM
10/16/07

Libbies are so silly.

So the Nazi party in Germany was different from the one here and now. Because I'm sure each of us own a very big chunk of or newly found Nazi bunch. So maybe that why the war will never end, ah?
salebored
4:44:44 PM
10/16/07

Anything that makes it difficult for Bush to wage his war of agression against the innocent people of Iraq, is a good thing.”
EarthNsky
11:24:18 AM
10/16/07

So EnS wants America to lose.
Figures.

All libbies do stomp....its just the way they are. For them the military losing and the reduction of our nation to some Second World Status means that the GOVERNMENT must grow to save all.

It usually is the mantra of very insecure people. They see success (which they really never have gained) as something for the LUCKY so the best way to GET EVEN is to Punish the successful.....
XL400236
5:57:19 PM
10/16/07

Stupider and stupider...
Reverend Truth V Wicked
6:13:06 PM
10/16/07

You shouldn't talk that way about tiltypoo and yourself, vile.

besides, most americans these days hate Bush. So, if you support him, then your against America.”
earthnsky
2:37:30 PM
10/16/07

It's ridiculous non-logic like that that gets you lumped in with stovestomper and marko
Nice guys, but wacky politics.
last edited: 10/16/07 6:33:03 PM
StickmanWalking
6:32:10 PM
10/16/07

:-P

you caught me during my edit Stove.
StickmanWalking
6:34:01 PM
10/16/07

Dims withdrew their support for the resolution.
......In other news, tiltypoo and EnS are still Hillary boys.

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