GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: I'm working on a piece right now to show you how out of control -- it is worse in violence just south of our southern border. There is more violence and more corruption on our southern border than there is in Baghdad and yet we don't think that that is a security problem for us. Nobody really understands why our leaders are doing what they're doing in Washington. Is it just that they're incompetent, arrogant? Who's running our country? In a time of conflict and war, personal political advantage has for the most part taken a back seat for the good of the country, but I don't know if people see the good of the country anymore. To give them the benefit of the doubt they would say that our country, unless they run it, will disintegrate because those on the other side of the aisle are just so evil and those who are on the other side of the aisle will say exactly the same thing. The President has called the Speaker and it's over the resolution of the Armenian Holocaust. Now, this Holocaust has -- is over 100 years old. The Turks exterminated Armenians. The Turks say they didn't do it, it was a Civil War. The Armenians said, yes, you did do it, it was genocide. This has been going on forever. They tried to pass in congress something in I think 1975, 1980 something or other, then again in the Nineties, if 2000 and now it's popping up again. The President called the Speaker. President said he was deeply concerned about the language in the resolution. He warned of possible far reaching negative consequences for the United States if the House voted on the legislation. In a letter to the speaker, the President said we have significant interests in this troubled region of the world, containing the threat posed by East and Central Asia, stabilizing the Balkans, developing new sources of energy, consideration of this resolution at this sensitive time will negatively affect those interests and could undermine our efforts to encourage improved relations between Armenia and Turkey.

This is not an idle request. We all know that the situation in the Middle East is unusually tense, end quote. The speaker made clear that they believed the resolution would pass in congress but that circumstances required that the U.S. congress members proceed with caution, and they shelved it. That was in 2000. The President was Clinton. The Speaker was Hastert, I believe he would tell me, have only gotten worse. Now we're in two full blown wars in the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan. 70% of all air cargo going into Iraq goes through Turkey. 33% of all of the fuel consumed in Iraq goes through Turkey or comes from Turkey. Turkey has the second largest standing Army in all of NATO, second only to the United States. Their Air Force base is an important base, serving as a regional storage center for war reserve supplies and equipment used in all combat operations for America. How important is Turkey? Consider this: Eight former secretaries of state, Madelyn Albright, a Democrat; James Baker, Warren Christopher, a Democrat, Lawrence Eagleburger, a Democrat, Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, George Schultz have all come out against passing this resolution. Nancy Pelosi has said it's going through. Their letter to Nancy Pelosi said the result could endanger our national security interests in the region including our troops in Iran and Afghanistan and damage efforts to promote reconciliation between Armenia and Turkey. They said in their letter they are going on to strongly urge Pelosi to prevent the resolution from reaching the House floor.

I don't know if she caught that line, "Endanger our national security including our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan." Maybe she could listen to one of the cosponsors. The initial cosponsors, Jane Harman, who changed her mind about the wisdom of the bill after visiting with the prime minister of Turkey.

I know you're busy, Miss Speaker of the House but you did find time to sit down with a butcher in Syria. Why not take another trip and, I don't know, I as a taxpayer am willing to pay for it. Ask our generals in Iraq and Afghanistan where are they going to get their supplies if Turkey decides to close their corridor.

Representative Hartman from California, one of the original cosponsors said, quote, I originally co-sponsored the resolution because I was convinced that the terrible crime against the Armenian people should be recognized and condemned but after a visit to Turkey where I met with the prime minister and Armenian orthodox patriarch and colleagues of murdered Turkish Armenian journalists, I became convinced that passing this resolution against Turkey at this time would isolate and embarrass a courageous and moderate Islamic government in perhaps the most volatile region of the world.

Context matters. Truth matters. Timing matters. Unfortunately I believe Nancy Pelosi only thinks media matters. Special interest groups have gotten control of our country. Timing matters. They asked one of the leaders of the Armenian special interest groups out in California, why is this resolution being pushed now. The quote back was, quote, they didn't ask me; it's not my call; I wouldn't have pushed for it, end quote.

If the Armenian community is not pushing for it, this is all about politics, about starting political fires where there's gasoline already on the ground. Toss a political bone to, I don't know, perhaps moveon.org and other liberal antiwar groups to be able to say to them, see, we socked it to Bush with this vote. You're playing politics with nitroglycerin. You are taking an ally, one we are bound by treaty to defend if they are attacked and you are pushing them over the edge. You already have a growing Islamic extremist movement in that country. There is growing unrest in the country. Why in your wildest dreams would you make a full-fledged Islamic extremist state out of Turkey, a member of NATO that is holding on by their fingernails? Just so you can pull the troops out, just so you can say, look, our troops don't have any gasoline; our troops can't get any of their supplies. Do you remember when Nancy Pelosi was all over television saying, we need to have more armored Humvees; we need to have these because of the mines. Do you know where those Humvees are used? Mainly on the road back from Turkey. So guess we didn't have to buy those.

I told you over a year ago, look out; Turkey is amassing troops against the Kurds. The Kurds and the Turks and the Iranians hate each other. If they don't -- Iran and Turkey can unite on one thing: They hate the Kurds and the Kurds hate them. It is the only successful region in Iraq. It is -- Reuters calls it the success story of the Iraq war and what Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats want to do in congress with this resolution is destabilize that region. And if you think I'm overstating it, listen to this: Broke today, 10:48 AM Eastern time. Turkish government will seek paramilitary approval for a military operation against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq according to a government spokesman. The government will immediately send to parliament in hopes for a vote later this week. Prime minister twice acquired similar authorizations from parliament in '03 but did not act on them. The target is the Kurdistan Workers Party. "We have always respected the sovereignty of Iraq which is friendly and brotherly country to us, but the reality is everyone knows this is a terrorist organization, has its bases in the north of Iraq. Fighting along the border in Iraq was reported over the weekend. Turkey said it has responded heavily to attacks from northern Iraq by Kurdish fighters on Friday." Oil prices rose Monday. Light sweet crude for delivery in November hit a new high of $85.19 a barrel. The price increase was mainly based on the strife in Northern Iraq with Turkey.

There is not a thinking man alive that thinks now is the time to go punch Turkey in the face. You can tell me, Democrats, that this is your grand strategy to unite the rest of the world by taking a NATO ally and peeing in their face. You can't tell me that you actually care about an Armenian genocide that happened over 100 years ago not by Turkey but by the Ottoman empire. You can't tell me that you actually care and the way you're going to state your disapproval is to start another genocide. If you don't think that the Turks won't respond to this by cutting us off in Iraq, you're crazy. What concession will we have to make under the table to keep them in line, to keep them from not responding in Iraq? And if they respond in Iraq, you are going to see a Kurdish genocide. Iran will attack, Turkey will attack, and it will be genocide. Meanwhile you will also -- because look up their Constitution -- you will also see a, what is it, a Turkishness? There's a Turkishness clause in the Turkey constitution which will allow them to go after the Armenians again.

Who is the dog and who is the tail? I do not believe that Nancy Pelosi is actually swinging that tail. She's the tail and somebody is swinging the dog. 

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