1.0 link 211408 <![CDATA[Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-fein/lies-damn-lies-and-armeni_b_211408.html On April 24, 2009--Armenian Remembrance Day-- President Barack Obama issued a statement "remember[ing] the 1.5 million Armenian [deaths] in the final days of the Ottoman Empire." The President stumbled.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and the number of Armenians who are claimed by Armenians and their echo chambers to have died in an alleged World War I genocide. Almost a century later, the number of deaths they assert oscillates between 1.5-2 million....

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