A Tweet About The Armenian...Uh, Thing. Yet Another Obama Campaign Pledge Conveniently Forgotten
About the 1 to 1.5 million Armenians slaughtered in Turkey starting in 1915:

@CitizenJoan
Huh? @BarackObama shuns saying 'genocide' on 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide because he doesn't want Turkey to feel bad?

From the History.com link above:

GENOCIDE BEGINS On April 24, 1915, the Armenian genocide began. That day, the Turkish government arrested and executed several hundred Armenian intellectuals. After that, ordinary Armenians were turned out of their homes and sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water. Frequently, the marchers were stripped naked and forced to walk under the scorching sun until they dropped dead. People who stopped to rest were shot.

At the same time, the Young Turks created a "Special Organization," which in turn organized "killing squads" or "butcher battalions" to carry out, as one officer put it, "the liquidation of the Christian elements." These killing squads were often made up of murderers and other ex-convicts. They drowned people in rivers, threw them off cliffs, crucified them and burned them alive. In short order, the Turkish countryside was littered with Armenian corpses.

Records show that during this "Turkification"campaign government squads also kidnapped children, converted them to Islam and gave them to Turkish families. In some places, they raped women and forced them to join Turkish "harems" or serve as slaves. Muslim families moved into the homes of deported Armenians and seized their property.

In 1922, when the genocide was over, there were just 388,000 Armenians remaining in the Ottoman Empire.

Bush also shunned the genocide label, but our current President, as a candidate in 2008, promised he'd acknowledge it.

Yes, there are some political concerns -- military bases, the piece linked at The Blaze explains, but shouldn't a man running for president consider that before he blusters about what a different sort of fellow he'll be in The White House?

Easy come, easy go!