Current Events > Graham blocks resolution recognizing Armenian Genocide after Erdogan meeting

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/470386-graham-blocks-resolution-recognizing-armenian-genocide-after-erdogan-meeting

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) blocked a resolution on Wednesday that would have formally recognized the Ottoman Empire's genocide against the Armenian people.

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) asked for consent to pass the resolution that would have provided "official recognition and remembrance" of the Armenian genocide.

"The United States foreign policy must reflect an honest accounting of human rights abuses, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and genocide. We cannot turn our backs on the Armenian victims of genocide," he said.

Menendez noted that he listened to President Trump's press conference Wednesday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan. The Turkish president scolded a House-passed resolution recognizing the genocide and instead promised to "establish a history commission."

Graham objected to passing the resolution in the Senate, saying senators shouldn't "sugarcoat history or try to rewrite it."

Under the Senate's rules, any one senator can ask for consent to pass a bill or resolution, but any one senator can block it.

Graham's objection came hours after he took part in a White House meeting with Trump, Erdoan and a group of GOP senators.

"I just met with President Erdoan and President Trump about the problems we face in Syria by the military incursion by Turkey. I do hope that Turkey and Armenia can come together and deal with this problem," he added on the Senate floor.

Graham added that he was objecting "not because of the past but because of the future."

The resolution passed the House in a 405-11 vote. Turkey does not recognize the killing of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide.

The House vote came in the wake of Ankara's military incursion into northern Syria after the Trump administration pulled troops from the area.

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Lindsey Graham really is just a sock puppet made out of week-old congealed McDonald's french fry grease, isn't he?
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pegusus123456 posted...

Lindsey Graham really is just a sock puppet made out of week-old congealed McDonald's french fry grease, isn't he?

He's a more fesity mitch McConnell.

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Bio1590 posted...

Graham added that he was objecting "not because of the past but because of the future."

for denying future genocides

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Republicans have no spines with Trump or Turdogan
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Bump
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Bio1590 posted...

I do hope that Turkey and Armenia can come together and deal with this problem

Deal with the problem of Turkey refusing to recognise the genocide happened?
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Fuck Erdogan
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I wonder if the people here who were in an uproar over Omar voting present will be as upset about this. Somehow I doubt it.
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republicans supporting genocide now?
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So can we remove someone clearly so evil?
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This just in, conservatives are scum, news at 11.
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Lindsay graham should be locked in prison for the remainder of his life.
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This should have been an easy bipartisan slam dunk. Way to fuck it up Graham.

Luckily IIRC blocking the resolution doesn't prevent the bill from going forward, it just kicks it to the back of the queue so hopefully this gets a vote eventually anyway.

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I feel like people can get over a genocide as soon people admit it happened.

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After he supposedly tore into Erdogan over the attacks on the Kurds? Unless he wants to add public condemnation against Turkey's actions against the Kurds, there's no reason for him to place a senatorial hold on the Armenian Genocide resolution at this point.
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