Yesterdays crime bumps into today's Expediency - US's Armenian Genocide Debate

'Allies at Odds' is how the BBC World News America reported the story of the vote by the American House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee to designate the mass killings of Armenians in the closing days of the Ottoman Empire as - Genocide. The US President, his Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defence all abhor the historical killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Turks, and even though Presidential candidate Bush prior to his election had called it Genocide, his government pleads with Congress not to call it Genocide. Nicholas Burns of the State Department is rushed into TV News studios to be interviewed by the media with a conciliatory statement at the first opportunity after the vote. View the entire House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee discussion about Armenian Genocide by Turkey at: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8277287280833442522&q=congress%2Barmenian%2BGenocide%2BBill&total=7&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2