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Department of Defense News Briefing
October 17, 2007 – 1:30 pm

Press Secretary Geoff Morrell: “[Under Secretary of State Eric Edelman and Assistant Secretary of State Dan Fried] met over the weekend at length with their Turkish counterparts with regards to the genocide resolution. They expressed regret on behalf of their respective secretaries for the House committee choosing to go ahead and pass the resolution.”

Unbelievably, this apology was made for a vote by the freely elected members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Armenian Genocide Resolution.It is outrageous that U.S. officials were sent abroad to apologize to a foreign government for Congressional recognition of a brutal crime that the President himself has described as “the annihilation of as many as 1,500,000 Armenians through forced exile and murder.”

Are you upset by these shameful actions? If so, please politely share your views with the public servants who made this cowardly apology.

Points to consider making in your message to these officials

• I’m ashamed that you apologized for a human rights vote in the U.S. Congress.

• As Americans, we should never apologize for our nation’s devotion to human rights.

• I would like a written explanation of why you expressed “regret” to Turkey.

America should never apologize for believing in human rights!