US Democrats stick to guns on genocide bill despite Turkish ire
Speaker dismisses threatened reprisals as 'hypothetical'
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Compiled by Daily Star staff
Monday, October 15, 2007
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Top US Democrats Sunday brushed off Turkish fury and vowed to press ahead with an Armenian "genocide" bill, insisting that bloodshed today demanded a righting of historical wrongs. But Republicans accused the party in control of Congress of waging an "irresponsible" campaign of dubious historical validity that would hurt US troops in Iraq.
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