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Another Iraq WarPosted on Apr 13, 2007
The Bush administration finds itself in a difficult position as tensions between two regional allies threaten to escalate to war. The Turkish military is fed up with Kurdish rebels it says have safe harbor in northern Iraq, and now wants to mount an assault across the border. One of Iraq’s Kurdish leaders has said such an attack would trigger retaliation. Turkey has long complained about thousands of Kurdish rebels it says mount operation from within Iraq but has yet to act decisively, mainly because of Washington’s intervention. But diplomats warn that election-year pandering could pressure Turkey to attack.
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By HrantDink, April 28, 2007 at 5:09 pm #
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The turks are a weak people. They dont have huge members and massive testicles like my people, the armenians. thank you.
Report thisBy moni, April 14, 2007 at 6:20 pm #
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http://WWW.kurdistanobserver.com
For futher information on the relationship of the Kurds with Turkey
Report thisBy moni, April 14, 2007 at 5:58 pm #
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You didn’t print my comment yesterday? Why not?
Report thisFurthermore I forgot to mention the fact that Turkey i.e. the Turkish Government innundated three Kurdish villages in the Kurdish region of Turkey by demolishing damns. Several thousand “Turkish” Kurds were flooded and their villages were wiped out.
By Eric L. Prentis, April 14, 2007 at 1:50 pm #
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The incompetence of President Bushs handling of the war in Iraq is now coming to an untenable conclusion with Turkey threatening to invade Iraq. The news out of Iraq just gets worse, the surge will not work during an Iraqi civil war, time for the US to get out of Iraq now.
Report thisBy James Yell, April 14, 2007 at 11:16 am #
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I wouldn’t get too enthusiastic about Turkish push to invade Kurdistan. It is wrong for the Kurds to launch or allow premeditated attacks across border, but they are right Kurds have been oppressed by Turks, Iraq and Iran. As the Kurds are the only group maintaining a functioning government, a Turkish invasion could only lead to more chaos. This is all left-overs from the Turkish Empire, aka Ottoman Empire.
False pride and greed for others wealth is the motivation, which sounds familiar as it is the only consistent motive for Bush/Cheney’s attack on Iraq, a country that did not have ANY THING TO Do with 9/11, nor did they present a real danger to the US.
Report thisBy Harold Strauss, April 14, 2007 at 10:12 am #
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Since the Bushes ran/run the White House, the munitions manufacturers have been kept very busy. When/why won’t the U.S. keep their noses out of the affairs of other countries. One thought come to mind,“the “Jews”!
Report thisBy Kol Klink, April 14, 2007 at 9:20 am #
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I agree with David. The Kurds are feeling their oats and have let their big mouths overload their backsides.
Report thisThe Turks have one tough, well trained and disciplined army. Just check with the Armenians to verify this, if you can find any.
The Turks want to deny the oil rich city of Kirkuk to the Kurds to prevent them from becoming wealthy and stirring up more trouble among the 15 million Kurds living in Southern Turkey. The Kurds want to create the nation of ‘Kurdistan’ carved from Northern Iraq, Southern Turkey, and Kurdish occupied portions of Iran and Syria. This vision of ‘Kurdistan’ would be a land locked state, dependent on their neighbors for access to ports, pipelines, etc. Obviously none of these nations are interested in donating land to form a ‘Kurdistan’ state. Iran has already been exchanging cross border fire with the Kurds, as has Turkey.
Seymore Hersch has reported that the US and Israel are supporting Kurds that are conducting cross border raids into Iran. The Iranians have already told the Turks that they will support a Turkish invasion of Norther Iraq to ‘clean out’ the infiltrating Kurds and stop the cross border raids.
What will shrub and condi do? An invasion and occupation of Northern Iraq by the Turks might end any hope of a unified Iraq. Does shrub know where Turkey is? Condi does not get on well with the Turks and on one of her visits to Turkey she outlined a list of US demands to the Turks. The Turks didnt care for Condi’s demands so she threw a hissy fit, stamped her feet, and said ‘this conversation is going nowhere.’ Then Condi got up and walked out of the meeting and flew off to conduct high level diplomacy somewhere else. Some diplomat. Stay tuned for the next episode of ‘shrub vs the world.’
By moni, April 14, 2007 at 12:20 am #
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Yes, a moment of truth for the Bush administration that has purportedly been championing DEMOCRACY. The KURDS were promised autonomy by the Treaty of Sevres in 1917. They desire an autonomous STATE. They are the indigenous peoples of KURDISTAN and it so happens that their region was divided among five countries; Iraq, Syria, Iran, Turkey and the former
Soviet Union.
It is no accident that they are the largest linguistic and cultural population of people “without a country”. The fact that the oil wells are in their region is of the utmost significance. It has been in the interest of the Controlling Powers to keep these people dispersed and in separate regions of the above-mentioned countries. Dividing a people, is the subtlest way to maintain control over them.
Report thisBy TDoff, April 14, 2007 at 12:16 am #
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Wow, the Turks versus the Iraqi Kurds, that’s gonna be a bitch!
The only fair way to handle that is for the USA WMD manufacturers to draw straws to see who supplies the Turks and who supplies the Iraqi Kurds. If you’re just a ‘little guy’, you too can make enormous profits on this deal. Just go to Vegas and bet on the line that puts the odds in favor of two of Halliburton’s divisions getting all the contracts on a ‘no-bid’ basis, one to supply the Kurds and one the Turks.
That’ll be the realization of the VP’s fondest dream (the wet one), Halliburton vs. KBR, fighting itself to see who can get the biggest, wildest contracts and access to $Billions (dare he hope for $Trillions?) of shrink-wrapped bundles of USA currency.
If you can find a bet on Dick-Head Cheney’s 409 fund exceeding $50 Billion, take it.
You, too, can become a war profiteer and buy a country (or at least a significant part of one), say Patagonia, soon to become a tropical resort, with mountains high enough to remain above sea level, no matter what.
Report thisBy David, April 13, 2007 at 9:43 pm #
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Finally, a moment of truth for the Bush administration and its war on terror. They justified the invasion of Iraq as an act of self defense and now here we are; an ally of ours is experiencing terrorists attacks from territory we are occupying. The question comes down to how much hypocrisy can we stomach before we loose all credibility.
I firmly believe Turkey is in its full right to attack an enemy that is attacking and killing its civilians and soldiers.
This coming war between Turkey and the Kurds will devastate NATO and bring about the ultimate dissolution of Iraq. I also beleive that this conflict is inevitable and that Turkish nationalism and Kurdish nationalism is on a collision course and there is little to nothing the US can do about this.
Thanks
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, April 13, 2007 at 9:10 pm #
If they want some payback who are we to deny them?
They can have the whole damn country.
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