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    OBAMA RENEGS ON ANOTHER CAMPAIGN PROMISE
    By Jamal Washington

    Fort Liberty
    http://www.fortliberty.org/obama-renegs-on -another-campaign-promise.html
    May 2 2010

    Politics

    Candidate Obama and President Obama don't have very much in common.

    Obama has broken campaign promises regarding tax increases,
    earmarks for pork barrel projects, forced health insurance,
    government transparency, spending cuts, and hiring corporate shills
    as administration heavies. He recently added yet another entry to
    his long and growing list of mind-bending reversals.

    On 19 January 2008, candidate Obama vowed "I will recognize the
    Armenian Genocide." He went on to say "I also share with Armenian
    Americans -- so many of whom are descended from genocide survivors --
    a principled commitment to commemorating and ending genocide. That
    starts with acknowledging the tragic instances of genocide in world
    history. As a U.S. senator, I have stood with the Armenian American
    community in calling for Turkey's acknowledgment of the Armenian
    Genocide."

    That seems pretty clear. There is no wiggle room in those statements.

    Instead of wiggling, Obama simply lied. He has now refused on multiple
    occasions to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide.

    Ken Hachikian, chairman of the Armenian National Committee of
    America, condemned President Obama's lack of honesty, "Today we
    join with Armenians in the United States and around the world in
    voicing our sharp disappointment with the president's failure to
    properly condemn and commemorate the Armenian Genocide. Sadly, for
    the U.S. and worldwide efforts to end the cycle of genocide, he made
    the wrong choice, allowing Turkey to tighten its gag-rule on American
    genocide policy."

    The Armenian Genocide was a deliberate and systematic destruction of
    the Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire during and just after WWI.

    It was implemented through government policies of wholesale massacres
    and mass deportations, with the deportations consisting of forced
    marches under conditions designed to cause the death of the deportees.

    The total number of Armenian deaths is estimated to have been between
    one and one and a half million individuals.
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